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Math Review For Standardized Tests (Cliffs Test Prep)| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Jerry Bobrow | | Publisher: | Cliffs Notes | | Release date: | 14 August, 1985 | | List price: | $10.99 |
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A must have for the GMAT or GRE! |
| This is such an excellent resource. I was never good at math, but this book is so informative and thorough. It's great for anyone at any level! |
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Good math review for non-thinkers |
This book is useful as a self-check and as a compendium of sample problems, but it is a poor teacher. It uses "the sort of language which buries the ideas" and is twice or three times as lengthy as need be.
Let me give an example. On page 122, "If x is a positive integer in the equation 12x = q, then q must be: (A)a positive even integer; (B) a negative even integer; (C) zero; (D) a positive odd integer; or (E) a negative odd integer.
The book solves this problem by trial and error, "plug in some numbers and see what happens." This unfortunate technique is used even though composite numbers and primes were discussed earlier. The algebra of even numbers (say E) and odd numbers (say O), and of positive numbers (say +) and of negative numbers (say -) and of course zero (0) would serve much better, briefer, and broader. I mean such things as E x E = E, E x O = E, etc., and + x + = +, + x - = -, etc.
What needs to be understood is that standardized test questions often (perhaps even usually) involve a "surface" question with a probe into some "deeper" concept. This Brobow, et al, book works strictly on the surface. "Not an idea in a carload" to paraphrase an old motto from the cranberry industry! Most unfortunate; a lost opportunity.
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Even if you hate math, you'll love this book |
| Many testtakers dread the quant sections of standardized tests more than the rest of it put together, and no wonder. The subject is often badly taught in the first place, and math is where adult students contemplating the GRE or GMAT are likely to be weakest. No matter how much math you avoided in high school or college and in your working life, you can still make up years of lost ground with this book. Really! Spend an hour a day with it and be transformed. You may not learn to love math but your skill and confidence will increase exponentially. Much better than the math sections in general GRE prep books...and most textbooks for that matter. |
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