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Elementary Education: Content Area Exercises (Praxis Study Guides)

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If you are in need of a resource to study for a Praxis Test....do not buy the books written by ETS. They are a waste of money and provide you with no insight of how to study for these tests. Basically , these books tell you to know everything. I think Barron's puts out the best books to study for Praxis Exams....at least on the elementary level. I got the Barron books for the Praxis.....followed their advice and passed the exam . I do not recommend the books by ETS.

I was disappointed with this book. The information was all stuff I had already read on the ETS website plus a practice test. A very small booklet for a rather large price. I found the best test prep book for this exam was Kaplan's Praxis, it had much more detailed information about the content itself. All in all, this book was good for the pretest and detailed example answers that followed so it isn't a complete waste of money.

I enjoyed this study guide. No it does not spoon feed you, but it is written by the people who created the test so it tells you what you need to study. It also has a practice test section and explains the correct answers.

This book gives a good overview of the test, and tells you what content is eligable. The practice test is pretty accurate and explanations are good. However I was hoping for a book with more content review, as some of the other ETS books are. Not in this one.

While this study guide does have some good information a lot of the first couple chapters are fluff. By this I mean that they spend time going over the purpose of the test, the grading process, how they train the graders, etc... The last couple chapters are quite good because it gives examples of what an essay response that received a grade of "4" looks like vs. one that received a "6". You can than highlight or take notes and formulate your own style. What I got the most out of was the style of essay answers and the jargon that was used.

This was useful in my preparation for the test. I passed the first time.

Did not have anything I felt was helpful. The online link did more than anything to help me. I definitely wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.