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John Douglas's Guide to the California Police Officer Exam (Kaplan)

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This book does not help out anyone who already has a high school education. The book contains elementry practice tests that are NOT useful for tests given in this era of recruitment.

This book adds nothing to the preparation for the police exam in California.

This book really didn't go very deeply into the strategies that help increase your score. He spent a lot of time explaining grammar, but not so much explaining the basic ideas that went into the actual police policy sections of the practice tests. It just wasn't very helpful. I put it down after I found the second typo that changed whether I thought an answer was right or not. (In the reading section, the crime was listed as occurring at 4:30 AM, and he had listed the correct answer as the choice that contained the time as 4:30 PM, among other things.)

I purchased this book with the hope that there would be more focus on the oral interviews and tackling the MMPI/ Psychology testing... but this isn't the case.
Most of the book focussed on the US written exams with 4 main question/ answer analysis and only a cursory overview of the oral stages. If you are in Australia and want information on how to tackle the face to face aspects of your police recruitment then don't bother buying this book- try and find a more specific title. There appeared to be some on the oral interviews but they were out of print. Good luck with your interview !!