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Manhattan GRE Book Review – Manhattan GRE Strategy Guides

Raghuram Sukumar —  September 14, 2012 — 3 Comments

I’m very much looking forward to your opinion on the Manhattan GRE book especially the one for Reading Comprehension…Hope you put it up soon.

-Cheers, Anna.

Manhattan GRE Books ( Manhattan GRE Strategy Guides ) comes with set of 8 GRE Test prep books.

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    1. Algebra
    2. Fractions, Decimals, & Percents
    3. Geometry
    4. Number Properties
    5. Word Problems
    6. Quantitative Comparisons & Data Interpretation
    7. Reading Comprehension & Essays
    8. Text Completion & Sentence Equivalence

In addition to above listed 8 books, you can also buy Manhattan GRE Flash Cards.

Manhattan GRE Book Review

Listen to following comments from Harsha talk about Manhattan GRE Book Review

As you can see, Harsha used strategies from Manhattan GRE books to improve his GRE score from 290 in firts practice test to 317 in Official GRE.

Reading Comprehension and Essay Strategy Guide

Contents of  Reading Comprehension & Essays GRE Strategy Guide

  1. Introduction
  2. Reading Comprehension Principles
  3. Introduction to Short & Long Passages
  4. Short Passages
  5. Long Passages
  6. Strategies For Short & Long Passages
  7. Question Type Analysis
  8. Reading Comprehension Problem Set
  9. Argument Structure Passages
  10. Essays Strategy
  11. Appendix: Vocab and Reading Comp

Review from Amazon Reader

RC/Essays – Want to break the essays down into no sweat easy to digest portions? Manhattan GRE makes it so easy to do that with their strategies.

Seriously there’s no need to repeatedly write out essays with this strategy ( still do though its worth practicing). As For RC This book is the sole reason I’m not still stumbling through wordy passages or even the short but terse passages.

The other self -practice guides do so much more damage then good. I wish I could outline their strategies but its best to understand the questions and whats REALLY being asked. T

This book also Breaks down ASP or short argument passages something the other books seem to gloss over entirely or lump in with RC, these are not the same thing! -10/10

Manhattan GRE Set of 8 Strategy Guides ( link to Amazon).

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3 responses to Manhattan GRE Book Review – Manhattan GRE Strategy Guides

  1. Can anyone comment on the difficulty level of quant and verbal in Manhattan Online mock tests separately? I got 163Q and 164V. Yet to give a Powerprep.

  2. Hi All,

    Even I’d like to share my experience with you all in Skype call about Manhattan books but I’m in a hasty office work schedule. so here are my comments about Manhattan books.
    Manhattan books are just a boon for the guys whoever preparing for the GRE.
    These books are not meant to practice but to learn strategies which you’re missing while applying in actual Exam. you just buy these books and you’ll never regret that.
    In a succinct manner I love these books as much as I love my Iphone why because Manhattan Gre books are like king of all the GRE available books like Iphone in gadget world.

    But as Hasha said in the video they came up with really tough vocabulary for Text completion and sentence completion but coming to Quant section it’s just awesome.
    it increased my score from 145 to 165 in a month.

    Buy it and work out on it and get the admission.

    Cheers,
    Naresh

  3. how could one buy all 8 books when u can get McGraw-Hill’s and many other math work books excluding rc n stuff………..is one work book not sufficient?

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