Admissions Books

There was nothing unique about this book. I bought 4 different books to help me write my personal statement. They all said the same thing with the same insight. Talk about plagarism. They weren't word-for-word, but the gist was the same.

Save your money and buy only 1 book!

This book is generally good. However, the examples are quite old. They submitted their forms in 1980s or 1990s. The book pay too much attention to dramatic approach in which candidates should tell their personal stories like thriller or drama ones. Not many ones have such experience in their lives. Nonetheless, in overall, the book show you the right way to write SOP.

Of all the tasks we usually face when applying to graduate and professional schools, from choosing universities to preparing for and taking admission and standardized tests, from soliciting recommendations to having transcripts send out, writing a good personal essay is among the most important and difficult to accomplish. The strong competition for admissions to grad schools, the personal statement often becomes a crucial element of your application package. It is the one element that can set you apart from the competition and open the door to your successful application.

This book describes the mistakes that applicants commonly make, and offer advice on how to make your statements as effective as possible. The book dedicates 60 pages to display 40 winning personal statements, as practical examples of what should be included and what not in order to write the essay that could give you the unconditional acceptance to the grad school or program of your choice.

Absolutely a must have for anyone applying to graduate and professional school.

This book was EXCELLENT. I had read two other books before this one, and was disappointed. Though they claimed to be good for grad apps, they were clearly geared toward undergraduate application essays. This book asks thought-provoking questions that help to bring to light relevant experiences and skills that you may have left out. It is great as far as taking you through the process of brainstorming, writing, and revising, but also explains how to write a good essay even if the deadline is looming. It was very good at helping me to organize my thoughts and feel like a good essay was just around the corner - which did wonders for calming my anxiety about the process. The examples in the book were also very helpful, and this is the first book I have seen that had sections dedicated to specific programs (medical, law, business, etc.) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

In "How to Write a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate and Professional School", Mr. Stelzer concisely elucidates how one must bring out an original yet refreshing personal statement. 90% of the sample essays are geared towards the Big 3- Law, Medical, and Business. For students interested in other programs like myself, there are several takeaways one could get from this book. I would strongly suggest using the questionnaires in the Appendix. I learned several things from the pages on advice from admissions representatives. I would also suggest reading all the sample essays first and then the introductory chapter which would help one lay out the groundwork for an original personal statement. Real Essays for College and Grad School by Anne McKinney is another helpful book. Good Luck!

I used this book to prepare for my GMAT test. The strategy in this book is absolutely useful. Highly recommended!!!

Great product. I haven't completed the entire workbook as yet, but it is very helpful for the most part.

I have logged a complaint to the vendor, but no response from him. I havent received the book so far. Its been a month now.

This is generally a good guide, as most people have pointed out. At less than $13, it's definitely worth your money. My only complaint so far is that the solutions for the practice sets, at least the sentence correction part (because that's how far got now), are vague and useless.

DO NOT BUY! All the questions are from the CD-ROM/DVD of their Premier book. I feel cheated.

If you are picking between PR's and Kaplan's workbooks, go for Kaplan. You can read my review on Kaplan's workbook (just click on my nickname and you'll see that review along with others), so I won't comment much on that book in this review.

Issues with PR's Verbal Wrorkbout:
1. Question quality - I have seen a lot of GMAT materials and sometimes questions are not very close to the authentic gmat questions. This time, they are quite far. The greatest difference comes in Critical Reasoning. Very often the logic is quite off and confusing. The explanations are helpful, but for a person who is very familiar with OG and PP, the difference will be obvious immediately.

2. Question Difficulty - PR is known for easy questions; this book is not entirely easy, but the hard questions are unreasonable; GMAT logic is very limited - it does not go more than 2 two speps. PR on the other hand makes questions either too easy or too complicated, and neither is good. Reading overall, is fairly easy.

3. Tricks the magic tricks. Yeah, right. PR is famous for its "magic tricks" that don't really work on the real test but work flawlessly in the practice books. Many of the questions are tailored to fit the special rules PR makes up. Some tricks are legitimate (such as GMAT never puts minorities or women in poor light); others are common sense (don't go for extreme answer choices), but a lot overemphasise tricks over understanding the grammar, logic, and reading methods.

4. This book has fewer questions than does Kaplan's Verbal Workbook.

5. It spends a lot more on blah, blah, blah, which really does not stay in the memory; could be more condensed.

6. Paper quality is poor; it is printed on the really cheap recycled paper and does not help studying.

Good things:
It has a bigger section on grammar than Kaplan, however, both books are not enough if you are an international student. The grammar covered in both books emphasizes mostly style (parallel constructions, etc) and does not go through the basics of subject verb agreement, adjective rules, modals, or subjunctive. If you are non-native English speaker, get a grammar book - many of the TOEFL books have fabulous grammar sections. I can recommend one, but it is out of print (1995 edition of Cliff's; the 2000 edition is not good, however). Good Luck on the GMAT!

I bought both the Kaplan Verbal book along with this one to study together. One, to be able to compare the strategies from the 2 companies; second, to get a really good "workout" to improve my score on the verbal section. What I found was that while the strategies between the two are similar, the Kaplan book gave more questions to practice with than the PR book did. However, the PR book definitely gives a more comprehensive grammar lesson than Kaplan does, and it also gives examples of "ETS tendencies" which is very helpful. All in all, if you're looking for a good english lesson review, this is a great book. But if you're looking for a "workout", go with the Official Guide or the Kaplan book.

I skimmed this book for only a few hours. I know that my high score in the verbal section was a result of following the tips that I picked up from the book. I don't know if the book would be helpful for someone looking to improve on the knowledge of English grammar. However, I find the tips to test taking very helpful because I didn't know those things, such as ETS tendencies, until I read the book.

I'm a GMAT tutor with 15+ years of successful students behind me. Here's what I suggest for the GMAT:

1. Use the Kaplan CD (as cheesy as the presentation is, the tests are very good). I've heard complaints that the prep tests from Kaplan are too hard, and I have to disagree with the point being made by these students. The only way, on a computer-adaptive test, to increase your score is to test using HARDER, not easier problems. I may kick ass at medium level questions, but unless I want a medium level score, practicing at a lower level hurts rather than helps. The Princeton Review Verbal Workout does not come with a CD.

2. Ignore the Kaplan book. Use The Princeton Review books (either Cracking the GMAT or GMAT Workouts for Math and Verbal) for tricks and psychology. Try the Official Guide for extra problems and basic review issues (but use as much of the Princeton psychology as you can -- the Official Guide encourages you to do the problems straight, and that's a huge waste of time). The Princeton tests are buggy for sure (Hello! Princeton Review! Fix this!) but are still fairly accurate.

3. Take as many practice tests as you can. That means Kaplan, Princeton Review, PowerPrep. Arco, Barrons, Petersons, and Dummies are all awful. Don't bother with their instruction or their tests. On Princeton Review and PowerPrep, knock 30 points off your score, just to be safe.

4. Check out your local library. Many public libraries have crazy collections of old, out of print Official Guides, chock full o paper-and-pencil tests going back a good 20 years. By all means, use these -- they're a goldmine of practice questions.

Good luck!

I feel the book is a must for anyone who wants to improve his verbal score. The book is written in a laidback, easy-going ,fun-loving manner which is such a welcome change from the traditional style of most of the other GMAT books that proliferate the market . The tips are very handy and the sample essays provided are a big help in improving your AWA score. For a little over 10 dollars, the book is worth every penny. Go for it.

To be honest and fair, this is one of the few better college guides among all the ones published. The good ones are in this order, in my opinion: "Getting into the right college" by Edward Fiske and Bruce G. Hammond, "Cool Colleges" by Donald Asher, "351 Best Colleges" by Princeton Review, "Hidden Ivies" by Howard Greene, "Colleges that change lives" by Loren Pope, and "Choosing the right college" by ISI.

The best college guide is "Getting into the right college." The most important concept in this book is that college searching is a matching process. You are not begging the colleges to accept you. You are trying to find the ones that match you. Too many students are selecting colleges based on their name and fame, and not whether they match the students' ability, personality, ethos, etc. This book sets the students in the right direction by firstly doing a self-survey in order to produce a set of criteria for college matching.

For students that want to reform the society, "Make a difference college & graduate guide" has the colleges and universities that foster and cultivate social activism. On the other hand, a conservative student or parent can use this guide to avoid the schools listed in this book.

Now, getting back to this book, it is a very good guide. The term "best colleges," which is part of the title of the book, is not defined in this book. Even the author admitted that there is no objective standard in selecting these 351 colleges and universities. They were chosen only based on some experts' opinions. How should one objectively define a college as among the best? Certainly not the selectivity! For it only indicates the quality of the entering class of students. It does not indicate the transformational work that the college is going to perform on the student. How many of us judge a restaurant by the quality of meat it buys and not the food it serves us? Do we buy a car because of the quality of steel the car manufacture buys or the quality of the finished product? Is a movie rated by its star roster or the quality of the movie itself? Focusing on selectivity is only looking at the input. Instead, students and parents should look at the output, the finished products. That's what counts. The output of a college is its graduates. So, the real measure of a good college is the quality and performance of its graduates: What are the GRE scores of its graduates? What are their MCAT or LSAT scores? What's the percentage of its graduates obtaining PhDs? What's the percentage of its premed students entering medical schools? What percentage of its graduates are high achievers in the society?

Reed College maintains a web page which has the colleges and universities that have the highest productivity on PhDs: http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html. High school students and parents should go and see this page. You will be shocked to find out that very few Ivy League colleges made the list. Instead, you will see some no-name schools that actually have done some wonderful transformational work on their students. For example, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, Reed and Swarthmore are the top four schools in the nation as far as producing PhDs is concerned. There is also an excellent report online that is done by Research Corporation: http://www.rescorp.org/AE-rpt3.pdf. If you check tables 1, 2 and 3 in this report, you will again see some no-name schools top the list for producing PhDs.

Again, getting back to this book, it is an excellent guide. It is full of useful descriptions by the college students of each school and they are pretty much on the mark. This book is good as a first filter. After you have selected some colleges you like from this book, then check with "Make a difference college & graduate guide" and "Choosing the right college" to make sure you like the social and political atmosphere on these campuses. Of course, I highly recommend Reed College's website and the report by Research Corp. Check out the top colleges in these two sources before you start applying to any colleges.

This book deserves a 4-star. I owned three editions of this book: 2002, 2003 and 2004. The content didn't change much from one edition to another, but that doesn't diminish its value. It has pretty accurate descriptions of the colleges and universities. The three sections I considered most useful are "Students Speak Out - Academics," "Students Speak Out - Life" and the amazingly accurate sidebar "Survey Says..." This is the best first-filter book out there on the bookshelf!

This is an excellent source of college-bound students' information pertaining to the best 10% of higher educations institutions in the country (and two in Canada, I believe). I would recommend this for high school sophomores and juniors in the upper third of their high school graduating class who still have only vague ideas of where they wish to attend college.

The information in here is both pertinent and useful. The book includes such facts as diversity profiles, student survey results, average high school GPA of entering freshmen, and school-specific admissions advice.

Pick up The Best 351 Colleges today. You won't regret this purchase.

This book is an extensive guide to a very large number of schools. It has all the basic facts about these schools, as well as insider information from students that you won't find in the admissions pamphlets you were sent. However, much of this data is out of date. The numbers are at least three years old for a lot of the schools I was looking at: tuition is understated and enrollment figures are off. The book is also riddled with typos, mainly in the numbers department. Despite poor editing, it is still a useful guide to have. Although, I might add, what the students said about the school I chose was way off, so take their advice with a grain of salt.

I am applying to college and I already owned the 2003 version of the book (which is very good, actually), but I wanted to read some fresh info about the colleges I chose. So I ordered this "NEW" version and was very disappointed. NONE of the colleges of my choice had ANYTHING new written about them. The Students Speak Out was simply the same as in the previous book, and you can read it for FREE on the Princeton Review site. The only thing that changed was the ratings part. They even took the students' quotes section from the previous book. It was utterly useless for me.
This book is excellent as a first college guide, but I do NOT recommend it to anyone who has a previous version.

This is the best college guide for students with SAT scores above 1100. I don't reccomend it for students will lower scores because it concentrates on schools that expect a higher SAT.

This book rates college on academic as well as social factors so you can see if you fit in to that campus. You can read about dorms, party atmosphere, and what current students are like.

One feature that I felt was great was... "if you like a certain college you may want to look at"... This allows you to add new schools to consider.

My high school daughter continually used this book to make her choice. I highly reccomend this book!

It is a complete book, with directions for all the test, and a lot of details about how the test is written to find out the answers for difficult questions! I strongly recommend this book.

In my view, this is the most well written GMAT book. Its really fun to read and has very good introductory chapters of each section that helps you refresh fundamentals.

But, in terms of depth/difficulty of the questions, this book does not prepare you enough to face the GMAT. I recommend everyone to start GMAT prep with this book to brush up the fundamentals and to get an overview of the exam pattern (and also to build self-confidence) and then go on to study something else like Kaplan/Manhattan before starting with the mandatory one - The Official guide.

Another note - The DVD that comes with this book is almost useless. I hoped to have a couple of practice exams but all it has is a couple of videos explaining about GMAT etc., So better go for a non-DVD one if there is such an option.

This book does a nice job of introducing the format of the GMAT, what it is, etc. If you are completely ignorant about what the GMAT is, then it may be worth your time to drive over to the local bookstore and thumb through the first couple of chapters. Beyond that there is very little useful information to be found in this book. In fact, I think that the strategies outlined for the quantitative section are simply misleading and wrong.

For example, early on the book describes a guy named "Joe Bloggs," who is essentially a complete idiot who did not prepare at all for the exam. Most every math problem explanation shows one or two answer choices that Joe would have selected because either they are intermediate solutions (solutions that are found during necessary, but preliminary steps on the way to the final solution), or they are just "too obvious." That's real cute, and perhaps makes people more comfortable with the test, but let me tell you that it will not help you on test day, and will likely hurt you.

The best thing that you can do in your preparation is learn the basics cold. Do this by frequenting some of the GMAT prep site forums, where a plethora of practice problems with expert solutions can be found. To sum up the quantitative tutorials in this book- "Make sure that you find out what the question is asking, and make sure that you do not stop short of the full solution, as they will tempt you with answer choices that they know you will encounter during your work to solve the problem." Well, that is sound advice, and much harder in practice than it sounds, but hardly worth basing an entire book upon.

If you are somebody who is really struggling with sentence correction, I would actually recommend that section, as I feel it does do a nice job of summing up the ideal approach to those questions.

In closing, I would say that if you are somebody who is simply trying to get to a 550-600 score, then this book may well be right up your alley, as the concepts are introduced in a very friendly and frankly, childish way. However, if you aspire to a 700+ score, this book is beneath you, and you really need to pass this one up. I bought this book on a whim early in my preparation, because I heard good reviews of it, but promptly closed it and set it aside for the duration of my studies and only used it once for the aforementioned reasons, and I scored a 750. I honestly believe that the reason these books sell so well is that reading them is in a way therapeutic, as it makes you feel comfortable with the test. Trust me that that is not a good thing. You have to make a realistic assessment of your weaknesses, and work to improve those, not waste your time practicing some cutesy methods that you won't have time to use on test day.

Overall I think that this was a good book; however, they skimped in a few areas. The grammar section was very bare bones as well as the statistics. I was able to do well by purchasing some additional books.

I also wish they put more information about the grading. Each section (math and verbal) is out of 60 points, and then is weighted depending on how the general populace does. They never mentioned this, so despite having a lower raw score, my verbal was actually a much higher percentile. This would have been nice to know when studying.

I used both PR book as well as the GMAC book.

The PR book gave a quick math review but nothing in depth. Additionally, I practiced the verbal portion quite extensively using their methodology and scored VERY well on the practice within their book...without even peaking at the answers :o)
So, going into the test (for the 2nd time) I anticipated that I would do much better on the Verbal this time around...this was not the case as I actually managed to lower my Verbal score.

The Analytical Writing Review was good. 1st time I scored 4.5 and this tiem 5.5. Though, I can sum that up for you....write A LOT.

I did well on my math the first time as well but this book helped me improve my score by 20 points. I'd recommend reviewing both books without taking them too seriously, it's much different on the computer so download the free software and practice those.

GOOD LUCK!

I saw this book at the bookshop *3 days* before my GMAT and spent the entire weekend with it. The book helped polish my analytical as well as passage reading skills. My final score is 760; I would guess that without this book I would not have gone beyond 720 and might have stalled at 700. It is also a little wistful to think of what I could have scored had I got it two weeks earlier. But enough about me; the book is meant as additional preparation for someone who has already read a "normal" preparatory book. In my case I read Barron's, it does not really matter which you have. All problems except essay questions are tackled here. The problems are a bit tougher than the ones you get on a typical GMAT and you may be surprised at frequently getting the answers wrong initially (this is not good 3 days before the exam!). But going through them will give you a solid preparation for whatever ETS throws at you. Everything - logic problems, passage reading, sentence correction and mathematical questions - are quality material. If you are serious about getting a high score I would recommend checking this out at your local bookstore. Again, do not read this before having already finished an initial preparatory book (and doing well with its problems).

This book is not good. It repeats many of the questions from the regular Kaplan GMAT prep book. I bought both books together to study for the GMAT but I found neither of them very good. The official GMAC book is extremely good ....the questions are tough and thorough....if I had more study time I would have bought all three of the regular GMAC books.

I ended up getting a 740 on the GMAT but it wasn't due to Kaplan, my score was great because I bought the real test-takers study guide.

I had done a bunch of studying before this book (beginning with Princeton Review, then "math workout" books by Princeton Review and GMAC, methodical plowing through the official guide, and even some surreal time spent with crazy Barron's GMAT prep). This was just what I needed to regain some humility a few weeks before taking the test. The questions are indeed hard and I got a lot of them wrong. To me, that was a really good thing. You can lull yourself into a false sense of security with the other books because they are geared for 600-650 scores. Don't get me wrong - those are good scores - but if you are determined to break through 700 then you need a book that will light a fire under your rear. The reason I say this book is silly is because throughout the book it has these tips that use the language: "An 800 test taker recognizes..." or "An 800 test take is able to..." To me, that's a little corny and insane. But after you start to feel a little bored by the other books, give this one a try. You can get through it in very little time (the type is big and the margins are wide) - even though it's thick, it goes very quickly.

If you know you are a high scorer - look no further!

I am an engineer, and I had very limited time to study (2-3 weeks). I worked only on verbal as I figured I had the math covered.

I almost cancelled the test because I thought I screwed up the verbal. I finished with 5 minutes to spare, and I had only easy questions the whole way through the test, so I figured the CAT was not giving me hard questions because I had gotten so many wrong.

I wound up with a raw score of 47 on the verbal - where a 44 is the 99th percentile! The questions in this book were so much harder than the actual test that I couldn't believe it!

My best piece of advice is to stay loose. I was so focused on getting every question right on the math that I got hung up on several questions and ran out of time at the end. I wound up getting 49 score/90 percentile on the math, which I thought was my strong suit! If I had cut my losses and guessed on the hard question on the math, I would have done much better. On the verbal, I 50/50 guessed on many answers since I wasn't so focused on getting everything right. YOU DON'T NEED TO GET ALL THE ANSWERS RIGHT TO DO WELL!

My final score was a 760. I'm sure I would've gotten 790-800 if I had not wasted time on hard questions on the math.

I agree that the questions in this book are harder than average. It's quite useful understanding all of the questions and solutions in this book if you need a good score (700+). If you aim for 600 then Princeton review or something equivalent might be sufficient for you.

I took the test 5 years ago and got 600 (75th) so I knew what I was up against and had done all the OG 10th edition questions before. This time around my goal was 90th+ percentile (690), but I had very little time to practise, about a month and max 10 hours pr week, as I was busy studying Mandarin at an intensive program in Beijing. My strategy for achieving the score I needed:

- Study with the hardest questions.
- Understand why you fail. Do the questions that you got wrong again in the following week to make sure you know why you did them wrong and how to do them right.
- Try to find more than one methodology to solve each question. After each practise-test, go through all the exercises again, this time with no time-limit. The purpose is to find better methods of solving the q's you got right, to understand why you got some wrong and how best to solve these questions. You especially need to focus on remembering the correct/smartest methodology (perhaps do a couple of questions of each type), but I'd say it's best having a repertoaire of 3 or more methods for each type of question.
- Multiple choice is a game of odds, so you need to perfect your techniques for guessing in case you get questions you cannot solve easily and quickly, or if get stuck. 1) Use POE/process of elimination (I did it on a piece of paper during the test - very useful), especially on CR and SC. 2) Plug in on PS questions where it can save you time. These two methods definitly helped me increase my score.
- Practicalities: Check out the center before test-day to reduce stress come test-day. On the test day: take the breaks and try to clear your mind before commencing the next part.

My practise test results (after I had done all the exercises in the Kaplan 800):

- Princeton 1: 670 Q43 V40 (a year and a half before the test)
- Kaplan Diagnostic: 650 (2 weeks before the test)
- Kaplan 1: 550 Q33 V31 (1 week before the test)
- Kaplan 2: 570 Q31 V36 (1 week before the test)
- Powerprep 1: 680 Q46 V38 (1 week before the test)
- Kaplan 3: 560 Q32 V35 (5 days before the test)
- Kaplan 4: 550 Q32 V33 (3 days before the test)
- Princeton 2: 640 Q34 V44 (3 days before the test)

Notice that my scores were not improving. I got 710 on the test, perhaps I was lucky given that my practise test results were not on that level. But I still think it should be possible getting 750 with more practise. Overall I'd say I couldn't have gotten the score I got without using the Kaplan 800 or a similar tool, not sure whether other alternatives exist on this level of difficulty though.

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I know a funny book we can read and listen to Lenny Kravitz.

Hey. You know when you go into SportMart and you're all "I'm looking for a new wakeboard" and the guy is all, "We only carry waterskies and kneeboards" and you're like "That's cool, I'll try REI Sports" and he's like "Sorry about that" and then you say, "It's cool" but you secretly mean "This blows!" Well the Lampoon book is a lot like that. A whole lot, IF you catch my drift (wink wink, nod nod).

This is the worst book I have ever read. The Harvard Lampoon should be ashamed of rushing this piece of rubbish to print without trying to make it either helpful or funny. It is an unfunny waste of almost 200 pages and I regret that some poor publisher was duped into printing this. The Lampoon's other books are terrible so I'm not surprised this one turned out terribly too.

I purchased this book with hopes of providing our students a lighthearted alternative in our college resource room, only to find it to be a silly, often offensive and weak attempt at parody. Too bad.

The only fitting description is found within the title: "utterly useless." To the recycling bin it goes.

sure, lunch sounds great. How about Cluster's (on Clarize, like two doors down from the flower shop)? Just to get the air totally clear, I don't want you to get any funny ideas in your head about that if I agree to lunch than there's any chance of us getting back together. Remember: it was your who "needed some 'me time'" about three weeks ago. I dont' know what's happened since then, i don't want to know, i'm seeing a really great guy (who, in contrast to certain-people-who-shall-remain-nameless, treates me like a lady), and you ahve to deal with your own problems. i've already cried my eyes out over you.

How's 1:30? -Linda

I bought this book as a refresher for a math exam I will be taking in about a month. It starts you off with "simpler" topics and moves onto topics which require more calculations and maybe two or three steps to solve.

Overall, a great review book. I will keep this book (and not resell it, lol) because I feel, in the future, if I ever need a refresher, this book will be it.

Although this book does not cover other topics (combinations / permutations), it is still a good resource to refresh your memory.

I think that proper exam preparation requires far more than a single resource. This is a good book to give you the fundamentals but you preparation should definitely consist of more than one review guide and certainly a ton of other resources for "reputable" problems - not simple ones, etc.

This book does a good job of teaching you basic math. It does help if you want to relearn math from scratch with progressive difficulty. It does not however help to prepare you specifically for the math questions encountered on the GRE. The practice questions in the book do a poor job of emulating GRE math questions which are not straight forward. I did every practice question in the book over three months and raised my quantitative score marginally. I studied a math review from a major test prep company and saw a much more appreciable gain using their specific advice. Using this book ended up being a tremendous waste of my financial resources and time. This book is a good math review but poor test prep - avoid it.

This is mainly for people who are out of touch with math concepts for a long time. Really helpful for such people but will add little value for people who are looking for some advanced concepts and other tricks

I bought this book and did not really help me. Actual questions were much tougher than book provided. The book did not contain any permutation-combination, arithmetic sequence,probability, slopes and XY plane questions. These questions appeared frequently on the test. Also examples in this book are very easy and these questions have nothing to do with actual questions. I recommend, those who aim to get high score do not purchase this book.

I am using the ARCO GRE/GMAT review and I find it very detailed and deep.
Very good purchase for the ones who need just a fresh review of what they studied in college/high school.
Not fit for who is completely dry of math.

Great service and product! I looked around for awhile before I was able to find this book.

There are so many errors in this book it's laughable. They have a forum on their website that tries to give corrections, but it's so badly organized that I spend more time looking for the corrections than I do doing the test itself. It reads like it's been written by a non-native English speaker. I'm using a Kaplan book that's infinately better.

This book is full of errors. The Examkrackers website has a forum for errata, but you have to pay for an "Elite" membership to access it. Ridiculous.

The answer explanations are often incoherent and the answers they deem correct make you question your sanity.

My ExamKrackers 1001 MCAT Biology Questions book came in a short time in brand new condition. I enjoy that it provides both passage and open-ended biology questions just like the real MCAT!!

I think this was a great purchase.. I'm using it to supplement my princeton rev coursework. The questions seem to be written in a style most closely mimicking the actual MCAT's bio section and I actually feel like I've learned and accomplished a lot as I look over the answer key.

I brought two books, this one and another one at the same time. This book is very idealistic and repetitive. I knew most info already. But I found a very good book written by some renegade ivy students at [...] , I strongly recommend that one. That book has strategy and is scary.

the book isn't too helpfull. Thanks God it wasn't too expensive. Only a small fraction of the book was about the addmission process. If you already know something about the whole thing and seek more info, it's not a good choice!

I was recommended this book from medicalhelpnet.com. I really thought it was a good buy. It was concise without being too redundant. I also like the essay books on Amazon.

I bought all the books and wound up using this one the most. The interview section was right on the money. I was asked questions verbatum from the book. I did read one review stating that the information was to basic. The sample mcat is worth the price of the book alone and there was nothing basic about it. Get this book.

Fair warning--if you aren't positive you want to be a doctor yet, get this book. If you're looking for a hint of MCAT study material and very generalized background information on medical school admissions, get this book. Only 3 chapters concern admissions. That's only 58 of its 192 pages devoted to admissions. Most of the information it contains concerns what to expect while in medical school and even study material for the boards, but I certainly do not feel the title is appropriate. An "Insider's Guide To Medical School ADMISSIONS" it is not. It's an interesting collection of medical information though, so for that purpose this book is worth the money, but not as advertised....certainly not an admissions guide.