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The comprehensive postal test-prep guide that delivers through rain, sleet, and snow
Now that the U.S. Postal Service has replaced its obsolete 470 test with the updated and more difficult 473 and 473C hiring exams, you need this book more than ever if you want to qualify for employment. It's packed with timed, skill-building drills to help you answer questions faster and more accurately.
Beat the competition--and get the job you want with the U.S. Postal Service!
Jobs with the U.S. Postal Service offer good pay, great benefits, and excellent security. But the new 473 and 473-C screening exams are tough, and you must score high if you want to get hired. That's why you need McGraw-Hill's Postal Exams 473/473-C-the total test-prep guide for entry-level USPS jobs.
Postal exams 473 and 473-C test your skills in these categories: Address Checking, Forms Completion, and Coding and Memory. Speed and accuracy are all-important, so you need lots of practice with questions just like the ones on the real exam-and that's exactly what you'll find in this guide. The sample tests in this book will help you work faster and better on test day. You'll build the skills you need to beat the competition--and get the postal job you want.
McGraw-Hill's Postal Exams 473/473-C includes:
Mark Alan Stewart is the author of more than 20 bestselling test-prep guides.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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First-Rate with a Small Quibble,
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This review is from: McGraw-Hill's Postal Exams 473/473C (No. 473/473c) (Paperback)
I found Mark Alan Stewart's McGraw-Hill's Postal Exams 473/473C book a first-rate guide to preparing for the U.S. Postal Service's Exam 473. Stewart's book familiarizes you with the exam format and content, contains effective strategies for approaching each part of the exam and provides drills that build confidence and that also give you a sense of how to pace yourself. The book also provides seven practice exams that help you identify your weaknesses and strengths. Combined with what the Postal Service itself provides, reading Stewart's book and doing the drills and practice exams is well worth the money - and quite sufficient to prepare you to do well on the exam. I have one quibble, however. On the important memory section of the exam (Part C, Section 2), Stewart advises us to ignore things like Ave., Ct., etc. and to write down only the street names. That's useful but omits that sometimes you also have to remember what kind of street it is when coding addresses for delivery routes, not just the street's name. Remembering the street name is most important but sometimes the testers - and even Stewart's practice tests - will provide the same street name but a different kind of street (e.g., Ave., Blvd., Lp., etc) - and to code it correctly you have to remember the kind of street it is as well as the street's name. Other than that quibble this book is right on target.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Emphasis on "study" guide,
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This review is from: McGraw-Hill's Postal Exams 473/473C (No. 473/473c) (Paperback)
This item was literally meant to train you in how to take the actual test, instead of simply providing you with strategies and letting you loose on some practice exams. Each section was broken into several build-up practices to train your brain into thinking a certain way in order to make the actual tests easier to understand and respond to. I only wish there were more build-up practice exercises, really, as you can definitely see results in the way you approach each section after working the exercises. The book also includes brief overviews of strategies for each section and detailed descriptions of your instructions for each portion of the tests and whether or not a section is scored, as well as notes as to which sections of the test are safe to 'guess' on, and which will penalize you for wrong answers. Overall, and excellent guide, and I would recommend it in and instant.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Before you buy you better know this,
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This review is from: McGraw-Hill's Postal Exams 473/473C (No. 473/473c) (Paperback)
Don't be misled by thinking if you buy this booklet you stand to get a job in the US Postal Service. The US Postal Service recently offered a buyout to clerks and mail handlers because of the huge drop in mail volume. It was partially successful but the Service is still overloaded with employees. The Service and the unions are trying to fill vacant positions elsewhere with excess employees with limited success. Layoffs are looming. In other words there are no career jobs to be had. There is also currently a hiring freeze. So while this booklet may be helpful when a test is offered, don't expect it until 2011 or later. You are best off saving your money and passing on this offer.
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