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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My choice for the classroom, May 7, 2007
This review is from: Cracking the SAT Biology E/M Subject Test, 2007-2008 Edition (College Test Preparation) (Paperback)
After comparing the other comparable titles, this was my choice for the classroom. I needed an approach that was quick, no nonsense, very accurate, and thorough. The Princeton book also helped my students quickly learn a few extra topics that my course leaves out, so I really counted on it. In addition to the content, useful and frequent review questions help the student double-check him/herself. A thorough section on test day tips and strategies is also quite good. Real tests at the end of the book round out this great text. Top notch - no reservations giving in my highest rating.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
better than barron -- much better, August 6, 2007
This review is from: Cracking the SAT Biology E/M Subject Test, 2007-2008 Edition (College Test Preparation) (Paperback)
Especially if you're doing a lot of self-studying, I reccommend getting more than 1 review book. Make Princeton Review one of them. It is an organized, clean, no-nonsense format, with chapter summaries and quizzes and lots of charts and diagrams for you visual learners. It'll give you all you need to know. Just as importantly, it won't give anything you don't need to know.
The other good one is Kaplan. As usual, Kaplan is good at explaining.
Barron is very minimal and the format is a little chaotic so the facts are all jumbled up in your head.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not infalliable, July 10, 2007
This review is from: Cracking the SAT Biology E/M Subject Test, 2007-2008 Edition (College Test Preparation) (Paperback)
As a third-year college biology student, I grabbed this book from the library on summer break for a quick review of my first year bio classes. It is exactly what I was looking for. It manages to deliver, in about 250 pages, a review that is not too detailed, but not too terribly skimpy on information. The rest of the book covers test taking techniques and gives you two full-length practice tests. Good choice for anyone looking for a quick review of the subject, as well as anyone who actually does have to take the test!
In response to another review, I would like to point out a couple of mistakes I did find in the text (which managed to bump it down to 4 stars). Pp. 313-314 talk about a virus with a genome made up of DNA being replicated using "the host's RNA polymerase". Quick quiz #1 on p. 333 asks the same question in questions number 2 and 3. Pp. 314 and 317 have an inconsistency in the order of events in the lytic cycle. And there is another question (I can't locate it right now.) In the chapter on organ systems, in which the cerebrum is said to control muscle movement.
All in all a good text, with a small number of errors, but I'm sure they could have done better.
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