Dante Books

This "study guide" is worthless and a complete waste of time. It is full of inaccurate & seriously outdated information as well as blatent contradictions. I took the DANTES exam in May 2002 and the information in this book is not even remotely representative of what is on the exam.

Awful! Don't buy this for a study guide. It was a huge spiral bound book full of possible test questions. It is a waste of money & time. By a college text book or a Psychology review (like Barron's reviews). This was absolutely no help.

If you're looking for material to prepare you for the Dantes test, get a college textbook instead of this one.

I found the book really worthless. There are a lot of test, but only a number of them have any explanations about the answers. It reminds me of a book (if you want to call the ring-bound papers a book)that a student would throw together with tests he has collected from a friend over the years. All the test are different lengths, some are 10 questions (that does a lot of good) and some are 30-40 without explainations. Also, who needs the section on "Careers with Statistics" Overall a poorly put together book!

This book is poorly made and poorly written. It looks like it was typed with a typewriter back in the early 80s. The content is not what I expected at all. The problems are much more advanced than expected. I just called the Dante's testing center and found out that they are not familiar with this book at all. They suggested that I use textbooks listed on their Fact Sheets, or that I use their online tutorial program. This book was a waste of money.

I got this book to brush up for the DANTES test since it had been 20+ years since I last had college physics or chemistry. Obviously I'm a non-traditional student. I was sorely disappointed. The book looks like it was produced by a high school teacher in 1975. Many of the illustrations are hand drawn and somewhat inaccurate. The book is about 100 pages in length and consists of a several tests mostly in the 30-35 question range each. In order to make this book seem much longer than it is the first 20 or so pages are deligated to telling you about the test and how to take a test. It includes information lifted directly from the DSST website. If you haven't read this before you probably haven't done your homework on the test you will be taking.

Once you get to the questions there are really only about 100-200 questions in the book. Questions are repeated, sometimes verbatim, from one test to the next. They are not even reworked to ask the same question in a different way.

I also found several wrong answers in the book. (this seems to be a theme for the Rundman Q and A books)
If you didn't know better this could really mess with your test prep.

It's been a long time since I had my last formal physics class (at a very good private university) but I didn't read in any of the magazines that much had changed in the last 500 years or so.

Skip this and get some flash cards or a basic physics and chemistry text.

I studied this book until I knew 90% of it and the other 10% I would make a very good guess. I studied a couple of hours each day for many days. Well, imagine my surprise when I went to take the test of 140 questions and I knew about 10 of the answers! This book was not the only aid I used to study, but it was the principal one. I also googled physical geology and found much info that I also studied. I did not pass; I have taken several DSST classes and CLEP tests and always passed until this time. The book did not cover the material that was on the test I took.

The Original works are all amazing feats with intricate details and thought processes. This book however, despite the author having read such creations and marvels, is full of holes, and brings no joy or enthusiasm onto the reader. If I had not already read the subject books, I doubt that I woud ever want to read them.

I wanted translations of Dante's letters. This is a "Self Published" personal commentary. It was a total waste of money. The author and Amazon should be ashamed.

This is probably the worst review book I have ever purchased. It is supposed to prepare you to take an exam on the Middle East yet it doesn't even have a chapter on Iraq! The exam covers everything from ancient times through the present day, yet the study guide consists of cursory descriptions of a few countries.

It's good to have the sample tests, but you will need real books to prepare for this exam. I recommend The Middle East, A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis and The Contemporary Middle East - a collection of essays by various authors.

This exam only has a 41% pass rate. It is very difficult. STUDY HARD!

this book contains old and outdated material, unrelated to the DSST

I purchased this book to prepare for the DSST in Foundations of Education. In my opinion, it's not worth the time or money. It's outdated; some of the questions and outlines look like they come from 40 years ago. You may find the sample questions so confusing, ambiguous, and poorly worded that they drive you crazy (then again, the actual test is somewhat like that too). You are much better off sticking to the books listed in the DSST Fact Sheet, particularly the standard, more objective texts, and studying them carefully. This book is of marginal value at best.

I took the Dante's test last night. What a waste of 30.00 this book was! The material in the book was nothing like the material covered on the exam. The exam is straightforward and seemed easy (I finished in 35 minutes).
Don't waste your money on this.

This book was a huge disappointment, as there is very little study material. Basically, this book is insufficient for anyone taking a DANTES exam.