Parent's Guide to College Entrance Exam [Paperback]

Jay A. Blumenthal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1999

Essential test preparation tips- how to choose the product or course that's right for your student, in a market flooded with options.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Learningexpress, Llc; 1 edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576852660
• ISBN-13: 978-1576852668
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,674,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Little, Too Late, February 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Parent's Guide to College Entrance Exam (Paperback)

I found the book to be a slim in help--the examples are routine, the strategies simplistic. There are many other books anbd websites devoted to the taking of SAT's that are more laden with clearer advice and stronger mock tests. In fact, the whole book seems a rushed job, sort of a self help for the COMPLETE beginner. But if you have kids and they have counselors or if you visit the websites of the Test Maker. The advice here seems pointless--increase your logic, be calm. What is misdsing is clear comparisons between SATs and ACTs, clear definitions of what other extra curriculAR acxtivites look good on college resumes, what the scorews mean to college recriuters. This book is so matter of fact that it misses the chaos of the Junior year of most kids--I have had three now--and the best times and procedures to take this test. I have three bvooks on the recruiting process and three books on SATs and this book clearly is the least substantial. Only for people who are completely clueless, like the auhors themselves.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Answer: B. Waste oif Time, March 24, 2003

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Jose David Molina (Bakersfield, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Parent's Guide to College Entrance Exam (Paperback)

Too general to instruct, too bland to entertain, this soporific release from a husband and wife--or corpse and corpse--induces ennui, not edificxation. All books on the subject are more helpful: those books will have more sample test-taking strategies, will illustate more re colleges' relationship to score, and will break down exactly what a 1200 on a SAT means: the number wrong, the weaknesses inherent in such a score, the levels of Un iversities that will either laugh or accept. There should be something on the new SAT's (in 18 months) and the supposed racism that is built inside these questions. A history of ETSA, an overview of ACT's, and any reference to the MANY contreoversies that thse tests evoke would also flesh this slim and stupid volume out. This book would fit comfortably at the bottom of a parrot's cage, but be warned: animal may lkaern to speak like a smug lawyer who never had one original thought.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not much help, February 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Parent's Guide to College Entrance Exam (Paperback)

I bought this book as a jumior in High School and now that I am a college freshman I think that I can honestly say that the book did not help at all. Much better info was to be had at College Board's website and in the Barron's series. The book is boring and unhelpful concerning types of tests, dates of tests, and strategies taking the tests. It seems like a rush job, and a waste of money. Better you save 20 bucks and buy 10 real SAT's and simply take the practice exams. In this book the advice is so general and so banal that you will sleep your way--something thre authors seemed to do--after the first five pages. Go somewhere else and and pwork your way through the problems. The self help section at stores is so filled with this type of garbage that I expoect to see a book soon called Self Help Writers in Need of Self Help.