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Cracking the ASVAB (Test Prep)

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This book would have earned a higher score had it not been so full of errors. My husband recently purchased this book to help him study for the ASVAB. We chose the Princeton Review one because we thought we could trust the name. There are countless errors in both the explanations of how to take the test as well as the practice tests. In a novel a few typos are harmless, but in a test prep book, it renders it useless.
The format of the book is good. It is divided up into clear sections with practice tests throughout. I hope that the next edition is more thouroughly proof read so that it can be helpful to others.

I bought this book a few months ago to help prepare me for the ASVAB, and wish I had bought something else now that I'm finishing the book. As another reader stated, there are A LOT of typos, wrong answers, wrong questions, wrong explnations, etc....that will really frustrate the reader. Especially when it comes to the math problems; you'll be left scratching your head time and time and time again trying to figure out how they got an answer to a problem, when it is actually the wrong answer. If you are a bit rusty on math, which most people are, this book might do more harm than good. Although I haven't tried another book, I strongly suggest getting something else.

This book thoroughly and clearly explained everything that I needed to know for the exam. The practice tests let me get used to taking the test under strict time limits. There were a couple of typos but nothing that really detracted from the quality of the instruction. Overall it was very useful.

The math section is awful. It's full of errors that only serve to frustrate and confuse. They will give you a problem to solve and you'll solve it only to find out that the answer in the back is done using a formula that makes no sense, or they have changed numbers in the problem. Not all of them are wrong but there are a few. Example It says to get the circumference of a circle the formula is 2P r(sorry i cant find a button for pi) one page later it asks you to solve the circumference of a circle using the formula Pi R squared. It's little things like this that make it a bad test prep. It's very confusing