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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good overall, but lacking in areas., September 29, 2003
This review is from: Review for the CLEP General Mathematics (Review for the Clep General Mathematics Examination) (Paperback)
This book is an excellent study source for the CLEP Geeneral Math test, but it only seemed to cover about 85% of the test. The actual test was not very difficult, provided you know the rules of radicals, exponents, logic, complex numbers, logs and sets in exact detail, and this book does a good job of laying all those out. You will, however, probably need some more advanced practice problems since the book only gives a few for each subject. (Try www.purplemath.com to fill in the blanks.) Also, you will need to know histograms which this text doesn't cover at all. I would have given a four star rating, but there were several obvious mistakes in the book's practice problems.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
SOOO HAPPY!! I passed!!!!, January 10, 2006
This review is from: Review for the CLEP General Mathematics (Review for the Clep General Mathematics Examination) (Paperback)
I have been out of Math classes for quite sometime. The only thing standing between me and my BS Degree was the Clep College Mathematics test. I bought this book and I was very thankful I did. Not only did it cover all the areas on my test, it gave me practice problems with answers and explanation of how they got to that answer. It was a very helpful book and I highly recommend it. Use this book combined with the Online Clep practice tests and you should have no problem passing the test.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It works., April 7, 2007
This review is from: Review for the CLEP General Mathematics (Review for the Clep General Mathematics Examination) (Paperback)
I suck at math. It may be a fear or genuine problem, I don't know. I got this study guide so I could get the 6 math credits I needed to graduate college. I read and studied everything in this book cover to cover 3 times and I took every test in this book 3 times as well. I used this book as sole preparation for my CLEP test. I beat this book to death and probably spent 30 hours reading or testing myself. I couldn't afford to fail since I had to get the 6 credits and my other options were algebra or business math... which were likely just as difficult. I passed the CLEP test with flying colors. Much room to spare. To be honest, HARDLY ANY of the questions matched what I read, in fact, they were INCREDIBLY different and I was scared... but this book gave me the basic logic I needed to solve the problems. Get the book, read it and study it exhaustively and you'll pass. Get the book, spend a couple hours on it, and you'll fail... unless you already know all kinds of math.
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