Customer Reviews

Biology the Easy Way (Barron's Easy Way)

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I used this book to help prepare for the SAT II Biology test. I found most of it to be fairly helpful and well written; it included some good self-tests with plenty of questions.
I found a mistake in one of the charts, it said the chemical symbol for potassium was 'P' instead of 'K'. Also, I found some of the graphs and illustrations to be somewhat confusing and some of the test questions seemed to include material not covered until a later chapter.
Overall this book was adequate but I would not reccomend it for use by itself.

This book helped me to understand hard topics in my college biology class such as genetics and heredity. As with all Easy Way books, it's easy to comprehend. I also highly recommend:
The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations
ISBN 1933023007 (Volume 1)
ISBN 1933023015 (Volume 2)
ISBN 1933023023 (Volume 3)
These three study guides really prepared me for the kind of questions that were asked on my college biology tests. These four books are great.

This is a great supplement to any Biology course. There are lots of review questions and answers to help students prepare for tests or quizes. I bought this book to independently learn some biology terms and concepts--it worked perfectly. I feel so good about biology now and am not intimidated about talking about it with friends! If you are looking for a quick, effective, easy to understand biology book, BUY Biology the Easy Way!!!

There is a LOT of information in this book, some of which might be wrong. I didn't read the whole thing, this review book goes into MUCH more detail than other review books I checked out. Saying that it's "Biology The Easy Way" might be a misnomer - it's chock fulla information and just requires a lot of memorization. The diagrams were fairly clear, but there aren't many of them. This is overall a relatively good choice of review texts for biology, but if you think something might be incorrect, check it out somewhere else!!

I didn't check with the previous reviews prior to getting it. I looked at the organization for the chapters and thought that that was the most logical order for teaching anyone being exposed to Biology for the first time. I got the book as a teaching supplement for class and may consider having the library getting some copies for students. Still reviewing for that purpose.

I purchased this book to review for the Praxis II Biology Content quiz. It did a very good job refreshing my memory on basic concepts I haven't studied in years. I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone who hasn't been through the basics in a while and needs a refresher. Good format and quizzes after each chapter help make sure the information is really sinking in.

This is a pretty good review book for biology. But it contains a little too much information. I wish it concentrate more on the human body systems because that's what most of the test focus on. Anyway, this book helped me a lot. The end-of-the-chapter questions are good for test reviews. Even my Biology teacher recommend it!

I have read this book and I think that it is really good. There are really good tests at the end of the chapter. There are connections to chemistry and anatomy in this book. The only bad thing is that the print of the bok is not very good, you can't read some of the writings in it.