As prospective graduate students concerned with professional advancement, you know the importance of using good tools and drawing on solid research. In this Twelfth Edition of Barron’s How to Prepare for the GRE, we offer you both.

This revision contains the fruits of our close study of all recent GRE General Tests made public by the Graduate Record Examinations Board. We have scrutinized hundreds of actual GRE questions, traced dozens of GRE reading passages to their sources, analyzed subsets of questions by order of difficulty and question type. In the process, we have come up with the following features, which should make this Twelfth Edition particularly helpful to you:

Actual GRE Questions Analyzed

The Twelfth Edition takes you step by step through dozens of verbal, mathematical, and analytical questions from actual published GREs, showing you how to solve them and how to avoid going wrong.

Testing Tactics

The Twelfth Edition provides you with dozens of proven, highlighted testing tactics that will help you attack the different types of questions on the GRE.
The Twelfth Edition introduces you to the latest fashion in GRE testing-the adaptive, computer-based GRE and helps you determine how to prepare for this interactive form of the GRE.

This Twelfth Edition once more upgrades what has long been a standard text. It reflects the contributions of numerous teachers, editors, and coaches, and the dedication of the staff at Barron’s, especially Linda Turner. We, the authors, are indebted to all these individuals and to our publisher, Manuel H. Barron, for their ongoing efforts to make this book America’s outstanding GRE study guide."