Assessment section - unhelpful
590256
I have not yet had time to read the book in its entirety, but the assessment section at the back was very disappointing, so much so that I cannot give the book more than 3 regardless of what else is in it. It was brief and far too general. If anyone wants some help with assessment, I would recommend that you consult your teacher or the Course Companion for TOK. I will add more to this review when I have read the whole book.
2410849
I just took my exam today and waited to write the review.  First off, the practice test would not load off the CD and it took a week to get an answer from technical support.  They had to email me a link to download the CD information to my computer.  There are issues with the test as there was with the CNA Exam Cram.  The book goes into too much specifics about different medications and not enough about the job duties, which happened to be about a third of the exam.  The exam alerts are in black boxes with white lettering making the book difficult to read and sometimes entire pages are in in that format.  It would have been great if they included an example of a MAR and what to do in different scenarios. I took the exam and maybe 10% of the questions on the licensing exam were covered in this book. I'd read this book cover to cover multiple times and so many of the exam questions weren't covered. I passed but I don't think this particular book was much help. There is a site that offers free online test that covers the same info. I only purchased this book as my particular school required it.
433059
Unit tests are all the rage. Maybe they are being touted out of proportion to their place in the hierarchy of testing methods, maybe not. I don't know enough to say either way, and was hoping this book would clarify that question. Instead I found that "unit test" was not even in the index. So, if I understand the current gestalt correctly, a neophyte depending on this book alone will come away unable to converse with the developers in many real-world shops. This is a tragic example of academic insularity blunting the authors' effectiveness in preparing their charges for the world beyond the classroom.
1913815
This book gives a few generalized tips on how to improve your score on assessment center tests but for the most part it is a waste of time reading.  I would say that the book had maybe 10 pages of useful material and the rest was useless information that was just added to make the book bigger. (Only 94 pages and double spaced to begin with).  The information in the book was just generalized information and really not that helpful.  I got other books on assessment centers that were written a lot better than this one and were more in depth on how to answer specific scenarios that could come up in assessment centers tests.  Definitely do not waste your money and buy this book because it will not be worth it.  If you do you will probably be very disappointed like I was.  Look at the other accurate negative reviews!!!!!
1197221
Not helpful at all.  I was having trouble with my ABSITE scores and this didn't really provide any benefit.
1125690
This was by far my worst casebook this semester. Civil Procedure is surely a tangled subject, but case by case organization of this textbook is terrible, inconsistent, and hard to understand. The squib cases, notes, and comments were often jumbled together, with their formatting lending no help to the student trying to organize which cases are "on point", which ones are there merely to develop an idea further, and which ones are more superfluous in nature. This type of inconsistency just makes it harder for new students who are not only approaching procedure, but also the study of law entirely, for the first time.
When the notes were explanatory, they were seldom helpful. As is conventional in legal casebooks, the explanations would raise important or perplexing questions, and would direct the reader to a case or article exploring the topic. The problem with this casebook, as compared those I used for other doctrinal classes, is that no short summaries were given as to the answer, or attempts to answer, the questions raised. Often these questions, at least with my professor, were incredibly important! So I found this casebook very much lacking in this respect, and altogether inferior to those I used for other course. As noted, this might be a result of the complex nature of procedure, but I think the authors and publishers could do much better.
I would not recommend, though I have no doubt future students have no choice in the matter anyway.
4722909
This book is a poorly written and largely unhelpful mess, everything in it is either mind-numbing simple (and thus shouldn't be in the book really, or at least in the level of detail they go into) or actually outside of the scope of the test, what is the post of including (for example) the law of cosine, if the West-B does not have math that complicated on it? There tips are just generic tips that can be found on any testing website for any test, there is nothing special they include, and in fact I'd imagine much of the book is simply copy and pasted from other Mometrix study guides. I would absolutely never buy one of these books again.
2795797
Knowing AP Calculus AB would be a tough class and that the exam would be even harder, I bought this book before the first day of class.  I anticipated using it as a quick reference throughout the year and for extensive review and practice as exam day neared.
I looked through the review section a few times during the year but it wasn't helpful when I missed a lecture or when I didn't understand a homework problem.  Quite simply, my class notes were a much better source.
I left plenty of time to take all six practice exams included in this book-however, because the exams in this book were unhelpful, I ended up taking only one of them.  The multiple-choice questions are much more difficult than they are on the actual exam.  The answer choices for the non-calculator portions of the multiple-choice are in decimal form.  I just took out my calculator for the last step of changing the exact answer to a decimal approximation.  However, this seems like an obvious error that should never have been allowed to go to publication.  It's typical of the quality of REA's "best test prep" series.
The free-response questions are closer to free-response questions on the actual exam, but the free-response sections of the practice tests are not divided into calculator and non-calculator portions as they are on the actual exam.  Besides, you can download real past AP Calculus AB free-response exam questions from the College Board's website for free, so I wouldn't recommend paying for the ones in this book.
I found the practice exams in the Apex Learning and the Arco books much more helpful, so I recommend either of those instead of this one.  Do not waste your money on this book.
1369437
I thought the questions were good and liked the layout.  However, they updated the test for the job I was studying for and so this book didn't help me at all.  Make sure it's pertinent to the test you are taking before spending a lot of time.
2654366
Unfortunately this book did not help me at all with the exam. Yes, it provided all kinds of definitions, but none of that was even close to preparing anyone for the exam.  I felt like nothing in that book was on the exam.  Worse money I've ever spent.  It would have been helpful if I was taking a class and needed to know abbreviations and what some diagnosis were, but that's it.
4720150
This book is a terribly poor attempt by the College Board to give us insight into and prep for the new test coming in March 2016..... four whole tests - wow - thanks!  The design of the new test seems ridiculously difficult, esp. the first section that starts with 65 minutes of reading comprehension - are they kidding?? The ACT, on the other hand, is a proven product, has lots of past test material available, and is accepted at ALL colleges. This begs the question: Why would anyone in their right mind want to practice and attempt the new SAT with no stats behind it...... who is willing to be the guinea pig and to what end??  And too much plugging of Khan Academy in there..... stop already!  Honestly, can you see a typical teen sitting in front of the computer trying to up their knowledge by spending hours on the Khan Academy site? Umm... NO. In theory a great idea, but in reality - a lead balloon.  I'd say save your money, glance at the tests on the College Board site the night you have insomnia, and then start prepping for the ACT!!!
2554422
Trying to cover 90 subjects in 180 pages leaves the reader feeling vexed and frustrated. You get a few titbits of information on the subject, then the article is finished. Not even enough information to qualify as an introduction on most subjects.

And just to make things even more frustrating, the book gives values for example objects without telling you anywhere whether they're auction or retail values.
3022185
I just got back from taking the 70-282 test. I passed, but no thanks to this book. I realize the questions are randomly chosen, but I can not imagine it is pure luck that the vast majority of the questions asked were not covered in this book. The test is 41 questions and I would say about five matched up with what I read in this book. The rest, I had to rely on my experince as a network admin to get through. Even if you memorize every word in this book, you will still fail without much more in-depth knowledge of networking in general, Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. It is really disapointing that a so-called "study guide" turns out to be so irrelevant to the actual test.

Bottom line, do not rely solely on this book.
481755
This is a pretty unhelpful textbook.
Here is part of a typical problem from this book (pg. 83):
"Construct a normal probability plot for the following sample of observations on coating thickness of low-viscosity paint ("Achieving a Target Value for a Manufacturing Process: A Case Study," J. of Quality Technology, 1992: 22-26)...
Does the author really think any student will care about the source of the data and go look it up?  If he really felt the need to include citations, they should have been in the back, or better yet, online.  The author could have just written "Construct a normal probability plot for the following sample:".  It's an utter waste of paper (and of students' money) to create such a wordy textbook.
It's ok when some problems and examples are from the "Real World", but this book insists on doing that for literally EVERY SINGLE ONE.  The lack of conciseness makes the book very difficult to study from.
Another pet peeve I have with this book is that while the author does put blue rectangles around key formulas and information to highlight them, the variable definitions are not included in the rectangles.  So you have to go back and pore through the previous paragraphs to figure out what the variables in the formulas are!

Finally, too many of the sample problems are, as another reviewer put it, "out of left field".  They don't flow from the examples or are just worded in a very confusing way.
I didn't have the heart to give this one star, because clearly a lot of hard work went into creating such an impressive-looking tome.  I can keep it on my bookshelf, and my friends can come over and be impressed by what a sophisticated textbook I have.  However, I'm afraid the author is less interested in teaching than in merely putting his erudition on display.
I hope you don't get stuck in a class with this book!
2212896
Would you think this "study guide" might have examples and sample answers to issues in it?  Wrong.  The authors of this schizzle were too lazy for that.  They just have the same ol' material from the book as sample questions.  There are no answers or references to any.  Comments from the authors?  Get a group to look at your work!  Or, perhaps you can get your instructor to look at it!  Exactly what help is this BS?

Call me exasperated.
1577413
The best word to describe this book is WEAK.  I have muddled through this one and have been frustrated by the lack of clear example this selection contains.  What little example that is provided is vague at best.  I would  give this title a negative rating if I could.  This selection comes with an  offering of the source code on CD that is supposedly used in this book.  I  wouldn't know because the the CD that was included with piece of work was  damaged and the publisher's technical support department needed an absolute  volume of information in order to even process my request to get a  replacement CD.  Once I complied, they responded with "we're sorry but  this title is out of print and we can't help you, but thank you for  choosing Sams".  Thank you? Thank you for what? Good luck to you Sams,  your technical support dept. has a long way to go.
449464
Not at all helpful, doesn't match updated test