Seriously useful, but this shouldn't be your only source
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic areas that ETS expects you to have down. Its major strength is the diagnostic tests which effectively focus your review on your weak points. If, like me, you're prone to skip the less interesting stuff, the test results broken down by topic area provide excellent motivation to pay a little more attention! However, I would not recommend this as a sole source for GRE studying. You'll need a decent intro psych textbook (obviously) and some official test questions. The questions in this book's tests are not in ETS format. However, I found GRE Psychology a useful adjunct to my GRE preparation.
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Extremely helpful; don't take the test without studying this
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A very comprehensive volume that covers everything you're apt to run into on the exam--theories, definitions, famous and obscure psychologists and their work, statistical questions...taking the exam without studying this book is a foolish move. I put the questions and answers on audiotape and listen to it in the car during my 50-mile commute to school.
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If you can find something else, get it!
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Barron's general GRE prep book was a great help, but their prep guide for the psychology test was more or less useless to me. I couldn't believe how bad some of the item writing was. I certainly hope the ETS people have better sense when it comes to writing items. I did WORSE on the practice tests after I did a week and a half of studying.
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