How to Prepare for Praxis [Audio CD]

Robert D. Postman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1999

This revised third edition is your comprehensive personal guide to the most popular Praxis tests. It incorporates recent changes in Praxis testing.
TESTING STRATEGIES: Proven strategies for passing both multiple choice and essay/short answer Praxis tests

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc; Cassette edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812019768
• ISBN-13: 978-0812019766
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,591,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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89 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Materials for Praxis few and far between, March 21, 2002

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J. Marren "jtm497" (Glen Ridge, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Prepare for the Praxis with Audio CD with CDROM (Barron's Praxis (w/cd)) (Paperback)

I am considering teaching as a second career and had to take the Elementary test (0014) for admission to a graduate school. My first piece of advice is to think about the tests in terms of their numerical codes and not the names because the names are totally confusing and all sound the same. If you need to take the PPST (pre-professional skills test, which is the Praxis I and easy to distinguish) this is probably a pretty good book. If you need to take the 0014 this is a very good review book for the math, but nothing else. Although this book says it's a review for the 0014 it has one practice test, nothing else. But that's still better than anything else I could find. I couldn't find anything to review for the science and social studies, but if you are a smart person you should pass. The English part will be easy if you've had any education courses, which I didn't. The Educational Testing service also has a review book for the 0014 but all it is is a daunting list of what you have to know, but no content materials. The ETS book has a practice exam too which was the only useful part of the book. If you have to take the 0014, you're pretty much on your own.

62 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Book  The Best Value, November 9, 2001

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J. Richards (Richmond VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Prepare for the Praxis with Audio CD with CDROM (Barron's Praxis (w/cd)) (Paperback)

I've been helping college students prepare for PRAXIS tests for many years. This third edition is the very best, and the most cost effective preparation for Praxis tests.

There is a complete, updated, PPST mathematics, reading and writing review with hundreds of practice questions. There are two realistic practice PPSTs with fully explained answers. If you are taking the computerized PPST, or you are JUST taking the PPST, I recommend Barron's How to Prepare for Praxis I.

The revised PLT section has a thorough review, and a realistic practice test with fully explained answers, along with a review quiz and extra targeted questions. The Listening section reflects the new test with a realistic practice listening test and explained answers.

The all-new Elementary Education sections feature full-length Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, and Content Knowledge tests. Each test has extensive answer explanations. There is also a full length Content Area Exercises test with useful examples of constructed response answers.

The overview of other subject assessments describes many secondary assessments and gives between ten and twenty questions, without answer explanations, for each area. This is just a partial overview, and you should not get the book JUST for this section. My students like it because it is an additional source of often scarce sample questions for these tests.

My students appreciate the multiple choice and constructed response test strategies, the extra help about required state test scores, becoming certified as a teacher, writing a resume, and finding a teaching position.

I recommend this book to every student who will take a Praxis test.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What Was Missing, January 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Prepare for the Praxis with Audio CD with CDROM (Barron's Praxis (w/cd)) (Paperback)

I just took the Praxis test and although this book was helpful, it put emphasis on trivial parts of the test and wasn't thorough enough on others. For example, the book was not specific to any test. It was difficult to figure out what you needed to study for the 0014 test. I studied dance, music and art which wasn't on the test. The social studies section on the test was extremely specific. The book suggested that if you just "looked over" that section, you would be in good shape. The math in the book is thorough and tedious but the test questions were a piece of cake in comparison. In short, the book was helpful but definitely needs to be be more specific about what is required for each test and concentrate on each of the four core areas.