The Ultimate Math Refresher for the GRE, GMAT, and SAT

Customer Reviews

Adequate Math Refresher

2008-03-16
I bought this book as a Math refresher for the GRE. For its price it's a good bye, and includes practice problems and answers. This guidebook is geared towards the General GRE, the GMAT and the LSAT. The same publisher has more specific refresher books for each test individually, my advise would be to go with that. Other then that, very folksy and easy to read.

refresher: YES; time-saving tricks: NO

2008-03-16
This is book is only useful for reviewing fundamental concepts. This book is NOT useful for learning and practicing time-saving strategies. Most of the problems are solved with a step-by-step process. Time-saving strategies that I learned elsewhere online allowed me to solve the problems FASTER than using the time-consuming step-by-step methods found in this book.

Good review, not great for the non-math minded

2008-02-21
This offers a decent review. It moves slowly in the beginning, but picks up the pace almost too fast in the end. Also, much of the terminology was different than what I learned in school, so I had to translate much of the book. It did give me a good review, though, and I did much better on the math portion of the test than I would have without it.

Recommendable!

2008-01-15
This book is very useful, very organized in presenting and showing solutions. It is easy to understand. I highly recommend it to everybody who wants to refresh their math.

Great

2008-01-09
This book provided a good refresher in terms of math skills that have not been used for a while. It had good explainations and questions, however I would use this early on and study actual math tactics in a GRE math book specifically, because you do not have enough time on the actual GRE to do the math questions as explained by this book.

Nice Math Refresher

2008-07-11
I think this is a good book to go through before you jump into the official exam books. I really liked the Geometry section since that was where I was feeling the pinch when I started looking at the GMAT books. However I think you would get away by not doing the Algebra & Arithmetic since they were pretty simple.

Far too basic

2008-06-24

I bought this book based on amazon reviewers comments and I was wrong. This book is so simple it's not even funny. Just skimming through it, I can not even say that it will help with the GMAT in the slightest way.

For a far better math review guide for gmat preparation, I would reccommend the Arco Gmat/GRE Math review book. This book assumes you know how to add and multiply (unlike the "Ultimate" refresher) and goes through topics in great detail. I am almost done with the entire Arco book and love how it introduces new topis and gives you problems that range in difficulty - from easy to hard. This is how you build up a mathematical skillset.

Not to mention, the Arco book covers the bredth of math-related topics which are likely to appear on the GMAT.

Anyone looking to get a serious score, steer clear of this waste of $. Your $ is better spent on the Arco book.

A little too basic....

2008-06-19
It gives an okay overview of the basics, but it is not challenging enough for the GRE.

One of my favorites

2008-06-02
This book starts you off with very basic math, building up to the more complicated mathematics that are included in the GRE (geometry, arithmetics, up to logorithms, etc.). Step by step, you fill the exercises right in the book. Simple and very useful. Helped me out a lot personally

Its Very Basic Book, though it says refresher for GRE etc.

2008-04-26
Its Very Basic Book, though it says refresher for GRE etc. It starts with 2+3=5 and continues with only very very basic details with the most complex formula in the book being "Area of Circle=Pi*r**2".