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Logic/Reading Review:GRE,GMAT,LSAT,MCAT (Peterson's Logic & Reading Review for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, & MCAT)

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1 star:		(6)

 

 

This book went through the main types of logic problems thoroughly, but there were too many blatant errors in the "answer key and explanation" sections. Overall, this is the best book on the market for logic, but I'm going to try out the ETS practice disk instead.

I don't know about the other tests but this book is useless for the LSAT. It is too easy and has too many mistakes! Simple things like replacing "could" with "must" in the answers mess up the whole outcome and this book makes those simple mistakes. I also understand the concept of choosing the lesser of the evils but this book takes it to the extreme! Answers for inference questions are things that really can't be implied any more than what they consider "wrong". The LSAT doesn't do that. So far i suggest getting the actual past tests and there are plenty of other prep book out there. I suppose you could use this book to boost you confidence, so i will give it stars for that.

If you're planning to use this book for the MCAT, you will be disappointed. The first 3/4 of it deals with material that is not on the MCAT at all. We are told to go to the second section... As for the second section, it is very short, about 1/4 of the book's length. I entirely feel like I wasted my money on a book that deceitfully claimed that it useful for those taking the MCAT.

Well, the book is a good weapon for peoplo who have problems with the verbal part, like me. I am an engineer, hence stronger in the quantitative section of the GMAT than the verbal part. This book helped me a lot.

I bought this book hoping it would help me for the LSAT, but I was disappointed. It is a little simplistic (although this could help a person get used to the games), but it's biggest flaw is the mistakes in the text. Throughout the exercises, there are msitakes. This drove me crazy when I was trying to solve the sample problems becasue I could never be sure if I just wasn't getting it, or if there was another mistake in the book.

I looked at this book while preparing for the LSAT.

It deals only with very easy questions and even includes errors in the answer key and explanations. The logical reasoning section is quite horrendous, only introuding questions of mild complexity.

I would look elsewhere for a preparation book.

This book is truely superficial, deals with only limited question types. The worst part is logic reasoning, which is nearly zero.

People should really avoid this book unless you have too much money, time and effort to waste. Aside from this book only provides limited strategies on cracking the logic questions, it has way way way too many bloodly obvious mistakes in it answer keys. It only does two things: confuses you--because you will never understand the inference process since the answers are wrong; or frustrates you--one MORE mistake is found! I eventually got so frustrated that I had to abandon using this book after getting through about 1/5 of the book. Strongly recommend avoiding using this book.

I would avoid this book simply because the answer keys have too many errors, thus making it difficult to gauge your success on the test questions.

Well, the book is a good weapon for peoplo who have problems with the verbal part, like me. I am an engineer, hence stronger in the quantitative section of the GMAT than the verbal part. This book helped me a lot.