Automotive ASE Test Preparation Manuals, 3E A8: Engine Performance (ASE Test Prep: Engine Performance Test A8) [Paperback]

Thomson Delmar Learning) Thomson Delmar Learning (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1401820476 | ISBN-13: 978-1401820473 | Publication Date: September 4, 2003 | Edition: 003

Prepare to pass any automotive ASE exam with help from this newly revised package of test preparation booklets. Each title in this popular series features the recently updated task list for the ASE topic of that book, with written overviews that describe the actual work that needs to be done as a technician that will be tested on by ASE. Technicians seeking certification in any one of the automotive ASE exam areas will benefit from the valuable preparation offered, including ASE test taking strategies, hundreds of ASE-style exam questions, and detailed explanations as to why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. The newest booklet, (C1) Service Consultant, rounds out this comprehensive package.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 003 edition (September 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401820476
• ISBN-13: 978-1401820473
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,213,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars WORTHLESS!, October 13, 2005

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This review is from: Automotive ASE Test Preparation Manuals, 3E A8: Engine Performance (ASE Test Prep: Engine Performance Test A8) (Paperback)

DO NOT BE FOOLED AS I WAS! I ordered this study guide in preparation for the ASE tests that I was going to be taking this fall. This guide is very poorly put together and NOT EVEN PROOFREAD apparently...it's a complete joke! Let me give you a few examples of why this is a HUGE waste of your money.

First of all, as you may or may not already know the ASE test questions are copyrighted and therefore CANNOT be reproduced. This means that the "sample questions" in this guide are not ACTUAL ASE questions, but rather questions that the author of the book made up that are designed to be similar in style to the ones you would see on a real ASE exam. ALL study guides are this way, which is fine so long as the person making up the questions is somewhat competent...the person who wrote this book IS NOT COMPETENT. Many of the questions are quite misleading, and some of the answers are just plain wrong! EVEN according to the information that THEY THEMSELVES give in the study guide!

There are so many typo's and mistakes in this book I got the feeling I was reading a book report written by my 3rd grade sister.

Each sample question is SUPPOSEDLY linked (by way of a reference number with a corresponding section) back to the section that explains how to do the procedure from which the question was based. THERE WERE SEVERAL SAMPLE QUESTIONS THAT LINKED BACK TO A SECTION IN THE BOOK THAT DIDN'T EVEN EXIST!!!!! I mean, how frustrating is that!

And then there is this hoopla that they sell you on about having "explanations for each sample question telling why the correct answer is right as well as why the wrong answers are wrong." WHAT A QUACK! A typical example of one of the sample questions and their "detailed explanation" for it would go something like this:

Question:
Technician A says [blah, blah, blah]. Technician B says [yada yada yada]. Who is correct?

a. Technician A
b. Technician B
c. Both Technicians A and B are correct
d. Neither Technician A or B is correct

Explanation:
a. The correct answer is a. "technician A is correct"
b. Answer B is not correct: [restates what technician B said WORD FOR WORD here] is not correct. [WHAT THE CRAP KIND OF EXPLANATION IS THAT???????!!!!!!]
c. Answer C is not correct because technician B is incorrect.
d. Answer D is not correct because technician A is correct.

WOULD THIS NOT FRUSTRATE YOU TOO WITH YOUR TESTS FAST APPROACHING?

Anyway, the first ASE study guide that I bought was a MITCHELL1 series study guide....after becoming very frustrated at the quality of the study guide I decided to purchase a different brand, so I went with the DELMAR series study guide and MUCH TO MY DISMAY when it arrived I found that it was THE EXACT SAME BOOK as the MITCHELL1!!!! BUYERS BEWARE!!! Apparently DELMAR learning bought out MITCHELL, as well as CHILTON repair books companies and now has some sort of monopoly on the whole market. It's sickening really...not because of the monopoly so much, but because DELMAR puts out such horrible products.

Anyway, I just thought I would give you all the heads up so you do not make the same mistake I did....when I bought the book there were no reviews on it so after my experience I thought SOMEBODY needs to expose this JUNK for what it is. I would put the company out of business if I could. DO everyone a favor...spread the word around that DELMAR does NOT sell good products!