Gre: Practicing to Take the Computer Science Test (3rd ed) (ISBN 0446396281)

looking for CS GRE books? this might help:
This books gives you general idea of test and let's you know what are the things you might not be prepared for. I don't have much else to say about this. Well, I searched for CS GRE books everywhere, couldn't find any; but finally found few books which might be of help if you are giving CS GRE. You mainly need books for Introductory programming (Pascal and C) Logic Design Data Structures Theory of Computation Computer Architecture Mathematics some operating system and compiler So get 5 solid books for these and you will be all set. And here are good books I found for preparing these topics. Finally :-( ( I have only a week left to prepare when I found these books) Schaum's outline in digital logic Schaum's outline essential computer mathematics these two (above) are excellent and schaum's outline Data Structures in C++ schaum's outline Operating Systems schaum's outline theory and problems are good All of these books have required theory in them, followed by problems and solutions. Very well explained, easy to follow and just the right amount of info needed for CS GRE. Hope this helps. Good Luck ~ sameer

Other sources for help:
My intention with this review is actually not to evaluate this book, but insteado to suggest to other graduate applicants some very interesting sources of information for the GRE/Computer Science test. The first book I would like to recommend is Fundamentals of Data Structures, by Ellis Horowitz and Sartaj Sahni. It helped me to review subjects like binary trees, hashing, sorting, searching, and graphs. The second recommendation is Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, by Aho, A., R. Sethi, and D. Ullman. There are many questions related to context-free grammars in the exam, and this book helped me to solve many of sample questions in the GRE:Practicing to Take the Computer Science Test book. There are some questions related to digital logic and binary arithmetics. One book very well written that could help on practicing binary operations is An Introduction to Computer Logic, by H. T. Nagle. In addition, the test generally features some questions with a small algorithm or piece of program, written in C, Pascal or structured english. A very good book, which has helped me not only to practice for this questions, is The C Programming Language, by B. Kernighan and D. Ritchie. Moreover, there are some questions related to computer architecture. A good source in this field is Computer Organization and Architecture, by W. Stallings. Finally, a good book that covers almost all the subjects is Computer Science, an Overview, by J. Gleen Brookshear. It is a nice material for a final review, and also comes with questions/answers of binary arithmetics. I hope this essay be helpful for you as a guide to find material to complement the practicing tests.

Save Your Money:
Textbooks and notes from past classes would be far more helpful than this book. The only valuable pieces of information are the section describing the content of the test and the practice test. Both of these are available in the free booklet you can download at the GRE site. (The practice test is exactly the same.)

Useful, but only just:
This book contains some sample questions on each topic of the GRE Computer Science Subject Test. After practicing these questions, one can try out the Full-length test which looks and feels exactly like the actual test. This book will be useful as a last minute review for the test. One can try to do the sample test and measure oneself before the actual test. However, the details of the test and steps to prepare, etc are exactly the same as those on the Bulletin, which is availible for free download at gre.org or availible when you apply for the test. A more detailed specification of the syllabus and some more sample question will be worthy additions.

lousy:
This book has numerous omissions. Do not rely entirely on this book, but supplement it with others that you can easily find by searching Google for CS GRE practice (including free practice materials from ETS). By the way, For the general test, I found Powerprep Software: Test Preparation for the Gre General Test to be a worthwhile buy.