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.

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.

My review is primarily about the book but also with a few tips on how to use it and some supplementary study methods.This is a decent (but not exhaustive) study guide for those who are not psych majors and have maybe taken a few psych classes at one point.Even though I am familiar with most psych theories/concepts, I found myself having to do a lot of extra reading and watching videos to explain concepts that the book touched on. The book helped give me ideas of what to even look for, however, there were theories on the actual test that weren't mentioned in the book. I also found that the actual GRE didn't emphasize names of theorists quite as much as the book did, though the prominent ones were mentioned. The bulk of my studying came not from reading the chapters but using the study method of "overlearning" when I went back to see why I missed questions on the practice tests. For reference, I did about 2 weeks of active studying for the GRE, most of which came from this book, youtube (Khan, Crash Course), some Wikipedia, a psych GRE flashcard app, and a 5 day trial of Study.com

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 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 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.

Really great study material! I love that there is a diagnostic quiz, a quiz after each chapter review, and 2 full length tests. Also, at the end of each chapter there is a wonderful review of the important psychologists within that field and what they did. I think this will be extremely helpful