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Eep. I just took my first GRE practice test and I got a 480 on the math. Algebra! I haven't done algebra since middle school! Eeek!

I got a 7-something on the verbal, but I'm not looking to be an English major, for heaven's sakes. Anyone got recommendations for a good GRE math website? A free one? I just looked at Kaplan, and sweet hairy cornhusks, batman, that mess is expensive.

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I recommend getting the Princeton Review GRE practice book. I used that, and it was incredibly good.

Ooh, I've been meaning to ask you which one you took. And I just looked it up on Amazon, and it's not hideously expensive!

As a Classics major, was the verbal really, really easy? My test material keeps carrying on about Classical Roots.

Classical roots?! What test materials do you have!? But actually, yes, although it *was* fairly easy, I still recommend going through the verbal section in the princeton review book, if you get it, because it's not actually enough to have a very good vocabulary and a handy ability to guess from Latin or Greek.

They teach you some good ways to manage the questions that are tailored to the specific test format and save a lot of time. Time is a much bigger factor in the test than you might think, and the book helps you get used to doing the questions in a really robotic, fast way instead of staring and thinking really hard, which is what I'd normally do, but which takes longer.

I have a marked-up copy of the Kaplan book, but since all the answers are already filled in (in orange and purple pen) I am shopping for another one. So that's the one that's telling me that if I have a year or more to prepare I might want to start memorizing Latin roots.

I had about 2/3 of the time to spare on each of the practice vocab bits I've done so far - and I got a 740, which isn't perfect, but I think does reflect a long lifetime of doing very, very similar multiple-choice tests. But on the math, I am completely in over my head. I knew how to do that stuff when I was twelve, but hells if anyone has asked me to find the area of a triangle since then.

Ditto to this. The PR has really fabulous study materials for all parts of the test, but their section on the math was particularly helpful for me.

Ooh thanks! And like I said to Toft, I like how it is not hellaciously expensive. Kaplan seems kind of overpriced.

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