How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests: Essential Practice for English Usage, Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension Tests [Paperback]

Mike Bryon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0749449691 | ISBN-13: 978-0749449698 | Edition: 1St Edition

Aimed at applicants for graduate or managerial jobs, How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests addresses the rising demand for more difficult preparation material. Offering unbeatable score-improving practice for online or pen and paper tests, it will help anyone prepare thoroughly and impress their potential employer. With over 550 practice questions and answers available, covering all the major types of advanced verbal reasoning, along with explanations of scores, How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests contains everything that job candidates need to know to stand out from the crowd.

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About the Author

Mike Bryon is an expert in psychometrics and training solutions. He is also the author of The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook, The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook, The Ultimate Psychometric Test Book, How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests, How to Pass the Civil Service Qualifying Tests and How to Pass Advanced Numeracy Tests, and co-author of How to Pass Selection Tests and How to Pass Technical Selection Tests, all published by Kogan Page.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Kogan Page; 1St Edition edition (March 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749449691
• ISBN-13: 978-0749449698
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Employers used to argue that candidates could not improve their score in
psychometric tests. Mike Bryon proved otherwise. It is now unanimously
acknowledged that every candidate can improve how they perform in these
common selection tools.

Mike Bryon was first published in 1991 and now has 17 books in print on how
to pass the tests and assessments used by large employers. He is the best
selling author on the subject. Each book contains advice on the winning
mind set, insights and tips, hundreds of realistic example questions,
practice tests, answers, explanations and interpretations of your score.
Hundreds of thousands of people have used the books to get down to some
serious score improving practice and succeed in the test and assessments
they face. The books have sold worldwide and have been translated into many foreign languages including Indonesian, the Portuguese, Russian, Polish,
Indian and Chinese.

After three years of post graduate research into adult learning at the
University of Birmingham (UK) he founded a consultancy and for 15 years.
He provided recruitment and diversity consultancy to organisations in every
industrial sector and a great many major UK and international companies
including Departments of the UK Government, National utilities, high street
retail chains, rail companies, local and emergency authorities, and
multinationals such as the Ford Motor Company and British Airport
Authorities. The consultancy contributed extensively to EU research
programmes with research partners drawn from across the union.

His books review the strategies and provide the practice you need to gain a
competitive advantage. Importantly they offer practice at a level that
reflects that of the actual tests. These books really do offer hundreds of realistic practice questions; 400 or 500 as a minimum. Many of the titles offer far more than this. 'The Ultimate Psychometric Test Book' (£9.99) contains over 1,000 practice
questions and is perfect for the candidate who faces tests at the intermediate level or seeks an introduction to graduate material.

The titles reach across the whole testing spectrum from intermediate
through to graduate and the high flyer. There is winning
advice, insights and tips on personality questionnaires, situational
awareness tests, assessment days, group exercises, role plays and in-tray
or e-tray exercises. There are books to help candidates who dare to dream
of a single career goal including applicant firefighters, candidates for
the UK civil service (including the FastStream), post graduate business
schools applicants who face the GMAT and medical school applicants who face
the UKCAT. Mike Bryon has also written on secondary transfer for children of 11
years of age, and adults who face a test as speakers of English as a second
language.

Mike Bryon has over 10 years of experience in the training room, making sure every candidate demonstrates their full potential and realises the career of their choice. His ground breaking approach has proved decisive for countless thousands of candidates.

His work remains contemporary through his continual research and writing
and through the many readers who contact him for advice and suggestions on
sources of practice questions. During your programme of review, if you hit a
problem or if you would like suggestions of sources of practice material
then email Mike Bryon at: [e-mail].

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't use this book for studying, August 8, 2011

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This review is from: How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests: Essential Practice for English Usage, Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension Tests (Paperback)

The book has numerous grammar, punctuation, and stylistic mistakes. DON'T use it to prepare for tests or to improve your English. I would chop author's hands off for writing such a lousy book.