GRE Subject Test: Psychology (Kaplan Test Prep) Sixth Edition

I'm giving this book 5 stars because it accomplished its intended purpose - I studied pretty much exclusively out of this book, 3 years removed from my psychology classes, and scored in the 95th percentile on the test. Particularly helpful to me was the social psychology section - I never took a social psych course in undergrad, so the material was pretty much all new to me and using just this book I scored very well on the social psych portion of the test. I don't think this strategy would work for someone who had no background in psychology, but as a review it worked well. Names of individual researchers are for some reason super important on the psychology GRE, so the page at the end of each chapter listing key figures made for a good resource to make flash cards out of.However, I found the book itself to contain a lot of errors, both typographical and substantive, that made the study process rather annoying. The information is intended to be review, so it's understandable that the authors don't go into great detail for most concepts. But many ideas were summarized so poorly that I couldn't understand what even the basic features of them were - stating the name of a theory without any further information about it, for example, so I used the book as jumping off point to do better research online (Wikipedia came in very handy in these spots). A few explanations were flat out wrong, which is frustrating as you then have to teach yourself incorrect information just to score better on the test. The list of key figures at the end of each chapter sometimes contained names that don't appear anywhere in the chapter, which happened infrequently enough for me to suspect that these were errors. I know this is a new version of the book, but I sure hope they hire a good copy editor for the next edition.That being said, if your goal is just to score high on the test, going through this book, taking notes on it, and supplementing any unclear areas with Wikipedia will do fine. Don't do it all in two weeks - I spread my studying out over a few months - but you won't need much more than your basic psych education and this book to score well. I will say that in my opinion the practice questions in the book are unfortunately a good bit easier than the actual test questions, so I wouldn't use them exclusively. Therefore you may want to take the practice test provided by ETS online for a better benchmark of your performance.

This book was great and extremely comprehensive for anyone taking the GRE Psychology Subject Test. It was exactly what I needed as a study guide! It shipped very quickly as well. Also, the seller left a personal note wishing me luck in my class...such a nice touch. My review is very belated, but it's much appreciated John :)

This book is a pretty quick and to-the-point material to use to study for the Psychology GRE Subject Test. I have learned a lot of new information from it as a non-psychology major who is currently preparing for the test. However, some parts of this book are strikingly vague and the writing quality could be better--sometimes, the way things are explained is misleading or unclear. This leads me to Google the concept that is being explained, only to find that the book has actually said the wrong thing. This is a useful tool, but tread carefully.

The most important thing is that this book was representative of what was on the test. I have no background in psychology (not so much as even an intro to psych course), and I’m 8 years removed from my undergrad in engineering. This was my only source of test prep, other than the ETS practice test.I don’t know how I did on the test yet, but I learned a lot reading through this book, and even if I couldn’t recall the answer, I know that all the questions on the test were addressed in this book.There will probably be an update soon, but the only misinformation I noticed is about the scoring. Up until the 2017/2018 test year you would be deducted 1/4 point for a wrong answer. This is no longer the case. There is no penalty for a wrong answer.

This arrived in pristine condition and is just as intimidating as I thought it would be. I need to take the GRE by this spring and flipping casually through this book has shown me that I REALLY need to get to studying! That alone would have probably made this book worthwhile.I'm using a combination of Manhatten's books for maths 5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems (Manhattan Prep GRE Strategy Guides) and GRE Quantitative Comparisons & Data Interpretation (Manhattan Prep GRE Strategy Guides), Kaplan Official GRE Super Power Pack, and Magoosh.com (who are kind enough to coordinate their study schedule to include Manhatten and Kaplan) for all of the other sections of the GRE, but the subject tests are a whole other thing. The reviews for this book, and the fact that it's the most recently updated, made me know that I for sure had to get this one.

This book is awesome! I ended up getting pretty good scores on the Psych subject test but I wish I'd started studying earlier. I ended up mostly using a flashcard app on my phone but this book was far more helpful, and contained more relevant information. The practice tests were great, but I used the other sections more. Would highly recommend.

This book quickly and thouroughly covers the large majority of information you will need to know for the GRE subject psychology test. It also includes several practice tests for more preparation