Appleton & Lange's Practice Tests for the USMLE Step 2 (Paperback)

by Joel S. Goldberg (Author), Goldberg (Author)

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Goldberg Appleton & Lange Practice Tests for the USMLE Step 2 Joel S. Goldberg, DO, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. 0-8385-0372-1, 1999, 350 pp.

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Key Benefit: organized into 6 fully integrated practice tests, this comprehensive question and answer book is the perfect review for the USMLE Step 2 Examination. KEY TOPCIS: Questions included in the text will reflect the type of questions on the actual exam, with the majority of questions in the form of clinical vignettes. The answer section of the book features eye-catching callouts that make it easy to identify the correct answer. Each answer will also identify which specialty and subspecialty areas are being tested, so students can determine which areas they need to study. Market: Medical students.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0838503721
• ISBN-13: 978-0838503720
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,550,240 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Review?!!, August 27, 2000

By	"jb1cb2" (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews

I think that the book that I had must have been different from the one the other reviewers purchased, because my "Appleton & Lange's Practice Test for the USMLE Step 2" had poorly written questions, with many answers that were out of date and/or incorrect. The questions were nothing like those seen on the Step 2. Questions in the book were generally 2-3 sentences long, where as on the computer based test the most of the questions were paragraphs long. The only redeaming part of the tests were that sets of questions would build on one another, forcing you to take several looks at a question. For instance- based on answer for question 'a' and 'b', what is the answer for question 'c'. This type of questioning, however, is nothing like that found on Step 2. For a quick glance at a penny store, this would be an okay book. For improving test taking skill and knowledge at it's full price tag, this one's a joke. For some much better books look at the "Crush the Boards" and "NMS-tests"

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as I expected, March 5, 2001

By A Customer

This book is not as good as I expected. I did the NMS 900 Qs first. Then I did 900 Qs from this book. They are much different! Although I rate this book 3 stars, do you know how many stars I gave to NMS? Six stars---if I were allowed.

But, I have to say most of the cases in this book are good---even very good. The problem is the case arrangement and the explanation. Most of the cases are too short---as some other friends mentioned in their comments. A lot of the explanations are really bad, the authors did not explain directly---why A or B is right. Most of the time, they did not explain why the other answers are wrong. For some explanations, you really do not know what they were talking about. In addition, there are some obvious errors---like A is the right answer and B is given in the explanation.

But anyway, I still learned a lot from this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good question collection., June 13, 2001

By A Customer

I found this book useful for step 2 review.The content is relevant and the question format is also very similar to that in the actual exam.All in all this book is good value for money.