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An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the Graduate Record Exam. This book has been fully updated to align with the new GRE. It presents 800 college-graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam. Words are used in various contexts to familiarize test takers with ways that the words are used in various contexts. The book's additional features include a pre-test that helps to diagnose weaknesses, a lengthy word list with extensive text-completion exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a post-test to assess progress. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the pre- and post-test. |
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The most up-to-date test prep manual on the market, Barrons TOEFL iBT is available as a book only, but can also be purchased with several additional test preparation tools. The manual presents: A general overview of the TOEFL iBT; Seven model TOEFL iBT tests with explanations or examples for all questions' A review of required academic skills, including note taking, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing' A review of language skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English. The book comes with audio CDs with audio prompts for all test questions. |
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The most up-to-date test prep manual on the market, Barron's TOEFL iBT is available as a book only, but can also be purchased with several additional test preparation tools. The manual presents: — A general overview of the TOEFL iBT; — Seven model TOEFL iBT tests with explanations or examples for all questions; — A review of required academic skills, including note taking, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing; — A review of language skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English. The book comes with CD-ROM with computerized versions of all the book's model tests plus a bonus iBT test with automatic scoring. |
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Here is the ultimate test preparation package for ESL students planning to take the TOEFL iBT. It consists of the new 14th edition of Barron's TOEFL iBT manual, by Pamela J. Sharpe, Ph.D., 10 audio CDs, which provide audio prompts for all of the book's test questions; a CD-ROM, which presents computerized versions of all the book's model tests plus a bonus iBT test with automatic scoring; and an English vocabulary builder, the latest edition of Barron's Essential Words for the TOEFL, by Stephen J. Matthiesen. |
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This revised and updated shorter version of Barron's full-size TOEFL iBT test preparation manual prepares ESL students for the internet-based test with: — An overview of the test format and a review of required academic skills that include note taking, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing; — A short review of skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English; — Three model TOEFL iBTs, with answers explained or example answers. Two enclosed audio CDs present audio prompts for the Listening, Speaking, and Writing sections of the book's practice tests. |
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This newly revised and updated manual gives you a test overview plus test-taking advice and a timetable for a typical computer-based GRE test. Added features include: — A diagnostic test with an answer key and answer explanations; — A verbal reasoning review with practice questions in sentence completion and reading comprehension; — An analytical writing review with scoring guidelines and practice exercises; — A quantitative reasoning review that includes general math strategies, discrete quantitative questions, quantitative comparison questions, and data interpretation questions; — Two full-length model GRE tests with answer keys and answer explanations. The enclosed CD-ROM presents two additional full-length computer-based GREs with all questions answered and explained and automatic scoring. With purchase of Barron's GRE manual with CD-ROM, you also get FREE access to Barron's Online GRE Course. |
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This newly updated second edition with two audio CDs prepares test takers for success on the IELTS, an English competency test that's recognized by leading colleges, universities, and government agencies in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The program presents: — Six full-length Academic Module IELTS practice exams with answers and explanations; — Six full-length General Training Module IELTS practice exams with answers and explanations; — Audio prompts for all of the tests' listening and writing modules; — Sample responses for the writing and speaking modules. The included explanations will teach the reader tricks to crack the exam and score high. ESL students can increase their language fluency by using this book and CD package alone, or they can use it along with Barron's IELTS, Essential Words for the IELTS, and IELTS Strategies and Tips, all of which contain extensive practice and review for all of the IELTS test sections. |
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Accompanying audio CDs include podcasts and news broadcasts, as well as segments that feature speakers from various French-speaking regions and all audio portions referenced in the book. |
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The new third edition of Barron's 501 English Verbs comes with an enclosed CD-ROM that offers valuable practice exercises in verb conjugation and a concise grammar review. The book presents the most common regular and irregular English verbs alphabetically arranged in table form, one verb per page, and completely conjugated in all tenses. The book also reviews rules of grammar applicable to verb usage, provides a list of hundreds more regular verbs, offers tips on idiomatic verb usage, lists 550 problem verbs with their principal parts, and presents an index to the verbs that includes their irregular forms. A newly revised section of Phrasal Verbs offers 55 essential forms with multiple example sentences. Here's a valuable fast-reference source for ESL students and all students of English grammar. |
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«The new edition of this popular classroom supplement hones students' English language skills with 40 updated lessons that include: — Word lists and definitions; — Pronunciation notes; — Fascinating facts about word origins and usage; — Exercises, games, and puzzles to facilitate vocabulary building. Also included are interesting essay passages that place words taken from the book's vocabulary list into story contexts. A newly added section called «Panorama of Words» shows how some of the 601 words are used in a variety of sources — newspapers, magazines, books, television, and speeches. Students planning to take standardized tests will find this book to be a helpful vocabulary builder. It also makes a valuable reference book for ESL students.» |
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Like the other titles in Barron's Business Review Series, the new sixth edition of Accounting makes a useful supplement to college textbooks, and is also excellent as a main text in business brush-up programs. Author Peter J. Eisen familiarizes students with key accounting terms, explains the accounting equation, and goes on to instruct in the use and preparation of financial statements, the recording of business transactions in journals, and in closing and adjusting entries at the end of a business period. The book is organized to closely follow a standard college textbook, but concentrates on student understanding of what is done, and, more importantly, how and why. |
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The newly updated edition of this authoritative reference volume deserves a place in the library of every accountant, bookkeeper, accounting manager, CPA, CFO, controller, business manager, and business student. An opening overview of financial accounting describes financial statements and presents details on financial reporting requirements and compliance, and USA GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards). Chapters that follow cover cost management, as well as taxation forms and their preparation. An extensive A-to-Z dictionary of accounting terms presents short-entry definitions of everything from Abacus and Absorption Costing to Zero-Base Budgeting and Z Score. The book's concluding chapters cover information technology in accounting, quantitative methods for accounting, auditing, personal financial planning, governmental and nonprofit accounting, international accounting, and forensic accounting. Appendices cover recent accounting-related legislation, financial reporting differences among different countries, and more. |
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Students preparing for careers in various medical professions will value this highly detailed and profusely illustrated reference guide. Fourteen chapters show, label, and define all human body regions and parts and describe physiological processes. The chapter titles are: Body Overview, Cells and Tissues, The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Nervous System, Special Sense Organs, The Lymphatic System, The Circulatory System, The Respiratory System, The Digestive System, The Urinary System, The Endocrine System, The Reproductive System. The book's fifteenth and final chapter provides students with a workbook that presents labeled line illustrations of the human body's muscle and skeletal systems. Students are encouraged to color in individual muscles and bones as an effective aid to memorizing the names and locations of each part. An attractive and instructive supplementary feature is a separate section of eight full-color acetate overlay sheets that dramatically illustrate body systems. More than 500 color illustrations. |
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The new eighth edition of this manual has been updated to account for recently instituted government procedures and regulations that pertain to eligibility and application for United States citizenship. Progressive exercises provide a review of information needed for the test and offer practice in using spoken and written English. Topics include: Reviews of U.S. history, geography, and government; Explanation of application procedures; Up-to-date information on eligibility for naturalization. The book also includes sample citizenship application forms and advice on filling them out. |
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Children will laugh out loud at this amusing story of a clever mouse who tricks a hungry cat into sparing his life by telling the cat that it's Friendly Day the one day in the year when all animals must share, care, and be nice to one another. Bright illustrations and sparkling rhyme follow suit as the cat imagines all the world's animals getting along — from a rhino who knits kitten mittens to a shark having a friendly game of chess with a school of fish. |
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Updated to keep pace with Americans' constant changes in the many ways they use, create, and abandon idioms, this book presents approximately 2,500 American-English idiomatic words and expressions. Each entry identified by part of speech. A concise definition for every idiom. Each idiom used in an illustrative sentence. Expressions are also categorized as formal, informal, slang, or literary. Readers will learn the meanings behind common idioms such as, ghost town, kiss and tell, ace a test, dodge the bullet, eye candy, and more. Here's a handy reference guide for ESL students, foreign travelers in North America, and anybody who has an interest in English language usage. |
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This helpful book for college-bound students presents and defines more than 365 words that appear most frequently on SAT exams. Each of 37 lessons focuses on a thematic word cluster — words having similar meanings or words that apply to similar circumstances. Also included are phonetic pronunciation keys for each word, memory tips, review exercises following every five lessons, and an alphabetical word index. New to this edition are additional lessons providing vocabulary specific to the ACT English, Reading, and Science tests. College-bound students who successfully complete the book's exercises and master these words will expand their lifelong vocabulary, enrich their essay writing, and improve their chances for acceptance at the colleges of their choice. |
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Getting a high score on the IELTS begins with a plan. This book offers test-takers a range of strategies for choosing the best methods for answering questions, along with useful tips that help them make choices quickly and efficiently. Together, these tips and strategies will give prospective test-takers a plan for success on each module of the exam — Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. Practice questions with fully explained answers and an audio CD add to the benefits of this unique test guide. |
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Written primarily to help students of English as a Second Language improve their fluency and do well on standardized tests such as the TOEFL and IELTS, the new edition of Master the Basics English: — Covers fundamentals of English grammar; — Reviews parts of speech; — Analyzes all verb tenses; — Provides guidelines for basic English sentence patterns; — Summarizes rules for capitalization and punctuation in written English. Special topics include how to express numbers, days and dates, time, and weather. A Test Yourself section offers many mini tests with answers. Review exercises with easy-to-reference answer keys included for each section. This latest edition includes a new chapter that helps learners identify and avoid common mistakes in pronunciation, punctuation, subject and object pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. |
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Barron's brand-new GMAT provides a comprehensive review of all four content areas on the GMAT. Most importantly, it offers solid strategies for managing the particular challenges presented by this high-stakes, computer adaptive exam. For each of the GMAT sections (Verbal, Quantitative, Integrated Reasoning, and the Analytical Writing Assessment), Barron's GMAT provides: — Diagnostic Skills Tests-initial quizzes that accurately and quickly assess strengths and weaknesses within a topic area; — Targeted Review Questions-additional questions for the frequent problem subject areas (probability, parallelism, data sufficiency) allowing test-takers to focus on their specific needs; — Strategic Step-by-Step Methods-approaches to each question type field tested by the authors on a wide range of test-takers with differing abilities and goals; — Full-Range Content-questions, strategies, and tips for all test-takers, whether they are aiming for a 50th or 95th percentile score, studying while undergrads or after years in the business world. |
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