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.

Barron's seventh edition of Pass Key to the GRE is a condensed version of their full-size GRE test prep manual. This new edition offers: — An overview of the computer-based general GRE Test; — Two full-length practice tests that reflect the GRE format; — Answer keys and full explanations for all test questions; — Extensive review covering verbal reasoning, analytical writing, and quantitative reasoning; — Additional practice questions and answers in each review section. In this conveniently sized volume, test takers will find a helpful study guide and proven test-taking strategies that will help them maximize their test scores.

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.

Titles in Barron's Business Success Series are of special interest to newcomers to the corporate world, offering them practical advice on career advancement. The books are written by experienced business professionals and cover a wide range of business topics, from effective methods of communication with business colleagues to dealing with difficult people. Updated to keep pace with today's business marketplace, this book helps job interviewees meet the challenges of that all-important employment interview. For instance, what's the best answer to give a job interviewer when he asks about your background and you know you have less experience than other candidates? The author offers good answers for this and for many equally tough questions. She also presents general tips that apply to all interview questions and advises on ways to give answers that are clear, direct, and to the point. This 3rd Edition contains an appendix listing hundreds of possible interview questions as well, making this book a must-have tool for every smart job seeker.

Titles in Barron’s Business Success series are quick reads for busy people. They advise career-minded men and women on how to succeed at all levels of management, marketing, and other business undertakings, with emphasis on survival in the corporate environment. This book helps make business writing easy, with tips on matching business language to the proper format—memos, reports, proposals, letters, and more. This new edition also gives attention to e-mail, which in recent years has become a dominant medium for business communication. An appendix presents a quick-reference grammar guide, and cartoon-style line art captures the author’s light approach.

«Correct grammar is more than a set of conventionally accepted rules; it's a reflection of clear thinking. Here are the rules of English grammar with insights into their underlying logic. For many years, «Barron's Pocket Guides» have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designed and printed in two-color type, and serve as especially useful books for the home, school, or business reference bookshelf.»

«Greatly expanded and updated, this guide to 24,000 often misspelled words includes easy-to-remember spelling rules, memory devices for avoiding misspellings, and a new section on homophones. For many years, «Barron's Pocket Guides» have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designed and printed in two-color type, and serve as especially useful books for the home, school, or business reference bookshelf.»

«This fast-reference word finder and vocabulary guide alphabetically lists more than 3,000 words with definitions and sample sentences. For many years, «Barron's Pocket Guides» have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designed and printed in two-color type, and serve as especially useful books for the home, school, or business reference bookshelf.»

«Here’s a greatly expanded and updated quick-reference book covering sentence structure, punctuation, advice on essay and letter writing styles, and more. For many years, «Barron’s Pocket Guides» have served high school and college students, as well as business professionals and others, as reliable fast-reference books filled with easy-to-locate information pertaining to all practical aspects of language use. The new editions are attractively designed and printed in two-color type, and serve as especially useful books for the home, school, or business reference bookshelf.»

Written mainly for average consumers outside the business world, Barron's Business Keys take the mystery out of business practices and terminology and make doing business understandable to everyone. Updated to reflect current market trends, this book defines common stocks and mutual funds, describes stock markets, and explains market-related terms and practices, including price-earnings ratios, dividend reinvestment plans, financial leverage, market timing, and much more.

Cuddly, colorful teddy bears teach new words to very young children-and they do it in two languages! Six titles give toddlers an early start in learning a foreign language at the same time that they are learning their own. The left-hand page gives picture-caption word in English and the right-hand page gives the Spanish equivalent.

This small but impressive book has been expanded to include hundreds more alphabetically arranged entries, each of them followed by an ample list of synonyms. The book’s size makes it an ideal fast-reference source for high school and college students preparing term papers or essays, and seeking out alternate words having similar meanings. In addition to synonyms, the author also lists antonyms for most entries.The type is set in two colors to facilitate quick and easy reference.

Written primarily for high school seniors and college freshmen, this all-new Easy Way book points out the simple logic that underlies correct grammar and clear expression. The author covers all basics, including parts of speech, sentence types and correct sentence construction, parallel structure, methods of avoiding misplaced and dangling modifiers, agreement of subject and verb, agreement of pronoun and antecedent, and many other basic grammar topics. The book is filled with examples of the right and wrong way to construct sentences, and is supplemented with short quizzes that come with answers. This book truly helps to make mastery of English grammar easy, and prepares students for success in completing written assignments of every kind.

Books in Barron's pocket-sized Business Dictionaries series list thousands of specialized terms alphabetically and present concise definitions. The authors of all books in this series are recognized authorities in their special fields. Newly updated editions reflect new technologies and recent business trends. This volume defines more than 4,200 insurance terms that should be understood by agents, brokers, actuaries, underwriters, personnel professionals dealing with employee-benefit programs, and consumers who need to understand the insurance policies they plan to buy. Terminology covers life, health, property, and casualty insurance, as well as retirement plans. This new and heavily updated Fourth Edition has been expanded with approximately 200 new terms, and updatings of many other terms to reflect the current state of the insurance industry.

Books in Barron's pocket-sized Business Dictionaries series list thousands of specialized terms alphabetically and present concise definitions. The authors of all books in this series are recognized authorities in their special fields. Newly updated editions reflect new technologies and recent business trends. The new edition of this book presents more than 4,000 A-to-Z terms and definitions covering media analysis, target marketing, e-commerce, advertising art, copy, and production, radio and TV advertising and promotion, retailing, direct mail marketing, business-to-business promotion, and virtually all facets of sales and marketing operations. This new, expanded edition contains approximately 300 additional new and updated terms.

Two separate alphabetical listings give definitions in German-to-English, and English-to-German. The definition of each idiom is followed by an illustrative sentence in both languages. Bilingual appendices touch on irregular verbs, standard abbreviations, and related language topics.

A bilingual dictionary of high-frequency Spanish and English idioms alphabetized according to their key words.

«The new German Grammar — a smaller edition of Master the Basics — doesn't include the «Test Yourself» and «Diagnostic Analysis» sections of Master the Basics. Both books review German vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, idioms, and sentence structure.»

The newly revised edition of Barron's SAT presents: A diagnostic test and six full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained. An overview of the SAT, an explanation of the test's scoring method, and study advice. Test-taking tactics for the exam as a whole, and special strategies for each part of the test Subject reviews covering critical reading, grammar and usage, and math Detailed instruction in writing the required SAT essay. The manual can be purchased alone or with an optional CD-ROM that presents two additional full-length practice exams with automatic scoring and fully explained answers. BONUS: FREE ONLINE SAT COURSE! With your purchase of Barron's comprehensive SAT manual, you'll get FREE access to Barron's Online SAT Course--one of the most powerful SAT prep solutions available to students today. When you go online with Barron's, you get: A diagnostic test to establish your skill profile. A personalized SAT study plan to help you focus your time and energy. Expert video lessons with solutions to help you master difficult concepts. Additional practice quizzes and extra questions to help you optimize your score. A comprehensive SAT skill report to monitor your progress. SAT score projection.