This book helped me score 800 and 760 on verbal and quantitative respectively (still waiting for the analytical score). In less than a month, you can brush up on all your skills and check your progress using the practice tests. The CD is useful with its 3 full length computer adaptive tests. The associated internet account gives more tips and help you plan your studies and track your scores. The best thing about the Kaplan program is that you get detailed explanations on EVERY question in the book and the CD - as opposed to Princeton Review which only gives the right answer and focusses on identifying it through shortcuts and elimination.

I have a PC and I found the CD and the online help frustrating. The online help would not register right and I had to call the help number to set it right because the book I bought had a misprinted key number in the back. The book has many errors that are corrected only on the online site, and the site itself is a bit confusing to use. The book overall has some nice examples of questions to help you get a feel for the test, but you can download a sample test for free from the GRE website that is better than this book. The only useful thing I found from this was a printable sheet of vocabulary words. I would recommend looking elsewhere for GRE prep help.

The book advertises its online resources with links mentioned throughout the book and by providing an ISBN number at the inside back cover of the book which supposedly lets the owner of the book to log in to their Kaplan website to retrieve helpful hits, sample tests, etc. I have not been able to access any of it.

As mentioned below, this book is filled with typos. Sometimes it is just annoying, such as when the heading reads "Kaplan's basic principles for success on Antonyms are:" in a section about Analogies. Other times, it's downright dangerous, such as when it tells you that the correct answer is, say, "D" and then on the next page they mention that "D" is obviously wrong because it illustrates a classic trap. What was the correct answer then? They never tell you. Whoops.

I suppose the strategies are worthwhile (so long as you like "Here are some traps to avoid," but no help on what to do when you see that particular trap), but the practice tests are, as far as I'm concerned, absolutely unreliable, and thus worthless.

And what's up with the "Higher Score Guaranteed?" If you spend the many hours it would take to go through this book, spend the hundred + bucks on the test and get a lower score, they'll refund you the fifteen you spent on the book? How about refund the money I spent on the *test*? Or the dollar-value of the time I wasted with the lousy Kaplan GRE Exam Comprehensive Program?

It's almost a scam. Kaplan should be fined for producing such tripe.

If you must, get this from a library, skim it quickly, and then thank yourself you avoided this truly awful book.

If you need guidance and stratigic tactics you need to get this one. The explanations are worth every cent. The structure is step-by-step. You won't get lost with this one.