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I took the MCAT about 10 years ago, did very well on it and am now a doctor. I was picking up this book for a friend who is preparing for medical school. I thought this book was great. To prepare, I read this and then I got some old MCAT tests. I took a review course but that felt like a waste of time. I was busy while taking the review course and it felt kind of basic and I didn't have time to study outside the course. The best thing I did was take the summer before the August MCAT and I just spent the whole summer, day after day doing old tests. That, I think, is what did the trick. I would say steer clear of Kaplan and Barrons tests because they tend to be too hard, focusing on minutia that will never be tested and diverting your energy away from material that you actually need. I seem to recall Princeton Review tests were pretty good. But if you can get your hands on old tests, that is the way to go.

Gives easy to understand reviews of the MCAT subject matter. Some errors in the book. would not recommend using it if you haven't taken the class first. Lack of practice problems is my main objection.

PLease, do not make the same mistake I did, that is, buying this book 3 weeks before the MCAT to study. This book is inaccurate in many areas at best and insulting to one's intellegence at worst. It only covers about 75-80% of the material you need to know! Unacceptable if you are relying on this for a comprehensive study. Stay away from this one!

I can no longer trust this book. At first I thought it was just accidental deletions and sloppy editing, but the outright conceptual mistakes in the subject matter make me wonder about who was writing some of it. It's truly hard to believe that Princeton Review would put out something of this quality but it looks like I'll have to shell out another 60 bucks on a different book. I want my money back!

This book explains materials very well and the multiple choice questions are good.However, there are many mistakes especially in orgo. I also found that some topics were completely omitted(like blood groups in Biology)and many other things. The verbal questions were too easy and insufficient

This book is meant to be a "hardest of" LSAT questions and on this level, the book is what it's advertised to be. However, the questions are hard for all the wrong reasons. (Note that the book contains only made up LSAT questions, not actual questions from administered LSATs).

On the LSAT, there is exactly one right answer and exactly four wrong ones. On a weaken question, exactly one answer will weaken the answer at all and exactly four answers will not weaken whatsoever.

This book attempts to make questions difficult by putting in multiple answers that could debatably be right. Then in the answer, they will equivocate with statements like 'this will weaken only in situations that...". No. On the LSAT, wrong answers on a weaken question never weaken ever. Period. Just because something doesn't weaken in 100% of cases doesn't matter. If it even weakens somewhat, it weakens. This book doesn't seem to understand this.

So, yes, by putting in multiple possibly correct answers, this book does contain some very difficult questions. Because now you are debating between two answers, each of which weaken and you're trying to decide which one does it more of the time than the other.

This is great for mental exercise, but isn't something that shows up on a real LSAT.

The logic games are also convoluted and totally non-representative. Again, great for a mental challenge. Not really useful for LSAT prep. If you want some more totally unrepresentative, but hard games, check out the purple REA LSAT games book.

One thing I did like about the book is the way they broke out questions by the "trick" type rather than just the question type. For example, there is a section on scope shifts in the conclusion, scope shifts within premises, which I thought was a good way of emphasizing what an LSAT taker should be looking out for. Too bad the questions they put after those short tutorial bits were so poorly constructed.

I found the Princeton Review products to be much more difficult than the actual test. It helped me to prepare, but until I looked at sample tests and realized this, it had me rather scared of the test. Once I realized that the actual test wasn't going to be as difficult, it allowed me to calm down and prepare better in the knowledge that if I could answer these questions, I could answer anything on the test.

I bought this book after studying extensively for the LSAT (my skills were well-developed). Long story short, it reduced my confidence and wasted my time.... This book is not representative of the DIFFICULT problems on the LSAT.

With questions that are overly difficult (logic games in particular), this book will waste your time... You will labor over interpreting ambiguous questions/solutions as opposed to practicing difficult, yet realistic problems... However, if you want a laugh (or cry), flip through the solutions pages of the Logic Games.

If you want to strive for the highest score, buy Kaplan's LSAT 180 book. This book is actually representative of the hardest LSAT questions, and it provides definitions that can actually be understood.

The authors of this book seem to believe that LSAT practice questions must be convoluted, ambiguous and deceptive to the point of frustration. These questions are NOT representative of the actual exam and may actually discourage students rather than build confidence. I expected a lot more of The Princeton Review.

Long story short, don't waste your time with this pulp. Find a book with questions that are similar to the actual LSAT.

The LSAT Workout is like a chaser to the nastiest tequila that you've ever tasted: it is necessary. This book takes everything you think you learned in Cracking the LSAT and really extends on it. Remember: Cracking the LSAT is like liquor and LSAT workout is like beer. Liquor before beer and you're in the clear. Beer before liquor and you'll get sicker. Don't do the LSAT Workout until you have fully completed Cracking the LSAT. Once you get done with these two books, you are ready to start hammering away at the LSAC books and LSAT practice tests. I noticed that one person found this review not helpful, so let me elaborate:

This book has a ton of practice problems. It is meant to sharpen your LSAT skills. However, you can't improve your LSAT skills if you haven't acquire them yet (meaning that this book is not for beginners). This book is an advanced book. I completed the book and got a good bit of questions wrong, but I did get some right. The questions are probably the hardest you'll ever find, so it can provide a good assessment of where your weaknesses are. The questions that trip you up are where you need to improve. It doesn't matter if these are the hardiest questions in the world. If the Princeton Review can confuse you, the LSAC can too.

I think this book is similar to the Kaplan 180. I just got Kaplan 180 a few days ago and... after looking at it, the format is similar to the LSAT Workout. The LSAT Workout has a few more pages and maybe more questions. The LSAT Workout focuses on three things in the Args: Drawing Conclusions, Language Shifts, and Interpretation of Evidence. These sections are organized so that you can address why get questions wrong. For example, the Language Shifts sections gives you every type of Arg where the question they ask uses a different word than the word in the argument. This book doesn't really explain anything. The little information it has is meant to be a review. The LSAT Workout is solely meant to be used for the problems. The Princeton Review calls this book the gap between learning the material (ex. Cracking the LSAT) and taking actual LSATs. If you are looking for advanced explanations, this book is not it. I would recommend Kaplan's LSAT 180 (although that's the only Kaplan product I would recommend. The Kaplan Comprehensive Program and Kaplan Logic Games Workbook are inferior to Cracking the LSAT).

This book doesn't discuss any strategies for passing the series 7, it basically consists of various investment tips from financial planners seems to be marketed more towards a person who is looking to invest.

This is a great addition to your Series 7 test prep materials. It is unlike any other book available. I highly recommend reading this book!

This book is absolutely useless. The information provided is not connected in any relevant way to the Series 7 test and does not give any more insight into 'thinking like a stockbroker' than would a copy of Barron's or the Economist. In fact, go buy the latest issue of Barron's, save $15, and get a lot more articles. You can feel almost immediately that this book was made simply to cash in on anxious Series 7 test takers. You do not need this book; it is an expensive and unnecessary way to acquaint yourself with information otherwise available.

This book is completely useless. This book could be useful for someone with no prior knowledge on investing BUT it's very unlikely as the person who wrote this book had typos throughout the book. I have a problem with buying a book that says "Series 7 exam prep" and discusses nothing about the exam. Not worth the money spent , i wouldn't even buy it used. PAGE 66 ...the word on the first paragraph should be "manage" not "mange" although at some points of this book i really thought it was in french. So useless.

save your money and buy a book that really intent to help you on your Series 7 test.

This book is good for people who are legitimately worried about not getting into med school. However, if you've done the basic stuff and you're probably a pretty good applicant, the book won't really teach you anything that you don't already know. If you want it, buy it early in the process. As of your junior year of college, you should know most of this stuff already.

This is NOT a book for those who've known they were going to be a doc from the beginning. This is for those who may have just decided to become a doc after getting done with a non-science major or anybody else who hasn't followed the high school -> college -> med school path. I really appreciated the honesty and reality of this book. It definitely cut short any idealism I have about becoming a doctor (well, not all of them, I'm a sucker for idealism), and emphasizes the need to have a backup plan! A must for those non-trads like me taking a crack at it late in life. Good luck to all!

This book contains a reasonably large amount of useful information. Finding one book or even one source of all your med school information should not be anyone's goal. It is an easy read with a vast range of topics which are all applicable. One of the most important parts of the book includes a listing and run down of almost every med school in the country, including gpa and mcat statistics, and tuition.

I wouldn't say that this text is geared to 'just non-trads', but to everyone.

Pros: This author encourages you to contact him... impressive for any author, let alone an M.D. He gives a 'real-world' view of medicine, and this being his 9th edition, has a fair amount of experience in the 'pre-med' arena.

One thing I really like about this book is the reality check it gives. Facts like M.D.s have about 10 years of post-graduate education, yet are told what to do by people who went to school for only 2 years post graduate to get their M.B.A.'s (Since medicine is becoming coorperatized by HMO's, and new physicians are finding themselves joining managed groups or hospital positions, ran by 'management' MBAs). The fact that HMO's are taking over and autonomy is no longer available for the physician. The fact that it is no longer a 'stable' career as U.S. and foreign medical schools are cranking out more physicians than the demand, and that salaries fell for the first time ever recently... and that it will ultimately be the willingness to be of service and to help that will continue to spur students into medicine, as salaries continue to fall and current M.D. positions are replaced by PAs FNPs and other specialists. He, and many physicians I've talked to, have supported his idea that M.D.'s are losing their security by the excess supply, and replacement by PAs, FNPs etc.

These are the things that few 'Get In' texts fail to mention, yet many physicians attest to.

Cons: You only get 'half' a book. The first half is the book, the second half is a dummed down version of the Medical School Admission Requirements (which you should get if you are seriously considering medical school). The first half has valuable information, the second could either be scrapped or include more inforamtion... it doesn't include nearly the information it tries to reflect from the MSAR.

Summary: A worth buying text... more realistic than most out there. Like most others, its a bit short. Its a good reality check to think about the current state of medicine, where its headed, what you expect from becoming a physician, and what likely will be. Great for any student who is new to the idea of becoming a doctor.

This is the only book I could find that dealt directly with issues that the nontraditional applicant would face in applying to medical school. I highly recommend it for applicants who are older, have a non-science degree or have other obstacles to overcome in applying to medical school. One chapter is devoted to success stories of applicants who had huge obstacles to overcome and still were able to do the impossible - getting accepted into medical school despite these barriers. Very inspiring!

I haven't taken my PCATs yet, I'll update this when I do, but as far as I can tell, this is a great book. It covers everything in depth and real well. I don't know what the other guys were crying about. You definitely want a study book that is either as hard or harder than the actual test? Otherwise, what good will it do you. I guess you could read a 3rd grade book on biology to study. But that doesn't help now does it. The writing sample on the cover means that there are sample passages in the book duh!! Excellent book. I highly recommend it.

I don't know what the negative reviews are talking about, maybe they're trying to sell Barrons' book or something because I got this book from the library and compared it to other PCAT books that were available there and this one is clearly the best. After using it for a while, now I am buying it here at Amazon. If you want sample tests, this is not the best book, but if you are looking for a book that will help you prepare for the test, there is none better than this one that I have seen. What makes this book uniquely good is its in depth outline of topics that will be on the test (and by the way, the guy that said he got 99% on all parts of the exam is lying because the scores are NOT given in percentile, they're rankings, and to get the exact same ranking in 5 different categories would be statistically near impossible). All of us have taken tests before and think about what helps you STUDY the best: knowing in great detail all the possible topics that are on the test, or having an old exam from another profesor which has multiple choice questions which will NOT show up on the actual exam. You can get an idea of what the test will be like by seeing an old exam, but it will not help you know to select A B C D or E on the actual exam which has completely different questions on similar topics.

I am STUDYING now to take this test a 2nd time. The first time I took it I just wanted to get an idea of how I would score and I ended up with an overall ranking score of 73 without studying at all. If English is your first language and you normally use a dictionary when you read a novel, the analogy/vocab section will be a breeze for you (I got an 86 on that section). I am 37 years old and have not been in school for a number of years, until recently, and I absolutely did crappy on the quantitative section which is full of basic math skills that I forgot long ago (eg. percentages of two 7 digit mostly zero decimal numbers multiplied together, order of operations, numbers to a fractional or decimal power, etc.), by using the outline in this book I know I will do MUCH better this time on the quantitative section. There is a tiny, tiny bit of organic chemistry in the chemistry section but if you haven't taken organic yet don't worry about it (you can guess on those 2 questions). The main thing you need to concern yourself with on the chemistry section is the TIME. You have 35 minutes to answer 65 questions which means you have about 25 seconds to read, decide, and color in the box (go to an art supply store and get a big FAT #2 pencil OR one of those new liquid pencils, yes liquid, so you can make one quick swipe instead of wasting seconds coloring in the multiple choice bubble). I sort of blew it because the proctor announced "5 minutes left" and I had about 15 questions left and I totaly freaked and rushed to finish (which I did) and I finished early, but I shouldn't have panicked because if you are answering the questions at a pace of about 20 to 25 seconds each you should have about 5 minutes left when you have 15 questions to go, so understand your timing for the different sections and don't freak-out like I did. This book does tell you how many questions will be in each section and how much time you have to finish each section. Well this is getting way too long, I hope it helps. Good luck!

THIS BOOK WAS NOT EVEN DESIGNED FOR THE PCAT. IF YOU READ THE COVER OF THE BOOK, IT READS "WRITING SAMPLE". THERE IS NO WRITING SAMPLE ON THE TEST. EVEN ON THE BACK COVER, IT READS "GREAT PREPARATION FOR THE VETS" OR SOMETHING. WHAT ARE THE VETS? I THOUGHT WE WERE TRYING TO STUDY FOR THE PCAT. THE OUTLINES ARE WAY TOO IN DEPTH. THE QUANTITATIVE ABILITY SECTION CONTAINS TRIG AND CAL, WHEN THE ACTUAL CANDIDATE BOOKLET SAYS THERE WON'T BE ANY ON THE TEST. IT IS AN OKAY BOOK IF YOU WANT TO CHALLENGE EVERY INCH OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE, BUT NOT IF YOU ARE TRYING TO STUDY FOR THE PCAT.

I wish you could give 0 stars!

I took the PCAT in October 2002 & scored 99th percentile in all categories. Do not buy this book -- it will not help you! The outline goes way too in depth. For example, it suggests that you learn the names & structures of all 20 amino acids--you don't need to know stuff like that. It goes into a lot of organic chemistry you don't need. You don't need to know the taxonomy it insists you do. Peterson's and Barron's are much more representative of the type of information on the test.

This book is a big waste of money. Get the other 2 & work some problems from a general chem text book. Take an anatomy course before the test.

I've ordered this book from Amazon and I have to tell you that Amazon knows how to choose a good PCAT test preparation book. Despite the few errors it has, it is a great help aid in preparation for anyone who wants to take the dreaded PCAT. It has complete "quick and dirty" review of the subjects emphasized on the PCAT, it has concise and clear examples and it even gives you some test stragety. If anyone gets this book at least 6 months before taking the PCAT, there is a good chance that you will do well when you take the PCAT.

This is a great book at a great price. I am ready for LSATs next month.

Unfortunately, I would not recommend this book as a way of improving your score on the LSAT. Despite the fact it gives a nice assortment of practice questions, where it lacks is in developing a strategy to pass the actual LSAT test. I studied over a 6 month period using this book, and did just about every question. My practice results rarely rose above more than 50% correct, minus reading comprehension which I did well, usually 75% correct. Overall, just not a good way to improve score or pass the test. My score the first time around on the LSAT was 137 using this book, not good. I am not sure if there is something else out there to improve scores, or if it is even possible to improve a score on a test of this nature, but I would not recommend this book to improve scoring. It is too shallow with strategy. I think the writers of the book expect that by repetition and practice, you can master the material, but it did not work for me. The book does offer some basic strategy but this did not help me too greatly.

This book is okay if you're already relatively good with the concepts the LSAT has you do. The software has a couple bugs in it--only a couple. I found I needed a more comprehensive review and ended up going to a real class.

I have been a big fan of Kaplan over the years. I used there test materials when preparing for the ACT and AP exams and was able to score a perfect score on the ACT and get college credit for my AP courses. Fast forward a few years, and now I am preparing for law school. So, of course the first thing I turn to is Kaplan. This big is a huge dissapointment. I am an honors english major and was really expecting some help on the analytical and logic sections. However, each section begins with a couple of pages of tips and then some practice. This book does not have in-depth explanations that you would expect from Kaplan. What really tops it all off, is that i finished this book in one week! Now, how much information and testing preparation can really be in a book if it only takes a week to complete? And that includes working dilligently and not just going through the motions!

Has 3 practice test which is a great value, plus I wanted to practice more logical reasoning questions and was curious about the cd. I had a host of problems running it in vista but to be honest I have xp on my other computers so it was really no big deal. But I would just like to warn people that you will have issues in Vista and its not Mac compatible I gave the rating four stars because the application crashed under my Vista laptop midway through which pissed me off. I just finished the logical reasoning section which was helpful.

I would buy this to start studying and order more practice test to study. I feel they should of added more study questions on the logical review but otherwise a great tool to supplement other materials I recommend people do not use this as sole aid though.

Poor Editing. Full of printing errors in the practice tests

I started using this book but switched to the Kaplan and GMAC guides because of the number of editing mistakes I encountered in using this book. Nothing undermines my confidence more than a book that dispenses wrong answers, so for that reason I gave it one star. Save your money - go with the Kaplan guides instead.

I highly recommend this book. Small in price and page length, but packed with practical skill-building materials that don't insult the reader's intelligence. Explanations for practice questions are the most thorough of any GMAT book I've seen. Kudos! What I liked best is that the author provides online support for the book. (Why don't more authors do this?) At the end of each lesson the reader is referred to online materials (at the author's web site) that supplement the lesson. Cool!

I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I appreciated the concise and to-the-point style. I found it easier to brush up on my quantitative and verbal skills with this book than with other GMAT books. If you are short on time then this book would be a good choice. However, the sheer volume of errors really bugged the hell out of me. Most of them are stupid editing errors (occurring on virtually every page), but I also found some critical errors with the practice questions. The massive number of mistakes detracted from my ability to study effectively because I was always second-guessing the book. I found this to be an unforgiveable sin for a test prep book and so I only give two stars instead of four.

Arco's GMAT in 30 days is an excellent book for a person intending to raise his/her score by 80-100 points in that timeframe. I took the GMAT and got a score of 730 and 6 in the AWA. This book contains a lot of the information presented really nicely. It however is lacking in two areas. The verbal reasoning explanations are quite difficult to understand and the book doesn't talk much about probability. The other sections are excellent and provide all the information and relevant practice questions. In order to get a good feel for the GMAT though, I found several opinions from different publishers helped, besides, there is so much information out there that I wanted to get as much as I could. I would also recommend Princeton's excellent book with the CD for the other sections. Their Process of Elimination method is really good.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a principle is a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine or assumption; a principal is a person who has controlling authority or is in a leading position. Zumdahl correctly named his book "Chemical PRINCIPLES". Amazon.com, please follow suit.

Not only did my chemistry class not use this book, but I cannot imagine how ANY class could use this. This book is so badly written, that it isn't even worth opening. It doesn't follow any particular order, and it frequently jumps back and forth between highly advanced topics and surprisingly dumb examples. Reading through even a single chapter of this book will lower the intelligence quotient of any sane individual. I suppose this book could serve a useful purpose, but only if that purpose was to teach the students to forget what they already knew about chemistry. I think I've made my point: do not buy this book under any circumstances.

The main strength of the book is its large amount of interesting and largely error-free problems. Unfortunately, some of the more advanced material isn't really well explained. A good example is the book's coverage of particle-in-a-box: it's covered well enough for a beginning student to solve some problems, but without the more thorough follow up you get in a quantum class, you're just pushing symbols. The same goes for many of the other, somewhat more advanced topics in the book - MO theory, gas dynamics, etc.

It may have made pchem and inorganic a little easier, but it made for frustrating reading at the time.

Why does my university use this book? The University of Washington uses this book to weed out the pre med students. Why do they choose this book? Zumdahl purposely wrote this book to be confusing. Try reading pp. 668 through 670 in the fifth edition. He wrote this to be especially confusing by not being consistent with phase signs nor giving clear statements, such as "When the phase of the right orbital is reversed and combined with the left orbital." What orbitals is he talking about? The ones on a figure, that happen to be on a different page, which is not in view when reading this page? This book is horrible and is designed for the student to fail. Thank you Zumdahl and UW for trying to ruin chemistry for your students.

This is the book my prof had us use for GenChem (129) my freshmen year of college. The book isn't the best I have seen and if I hadn't had a really rigorous prep in AP Chem I would have been lost in the reading. I didn't think the book was very clear with the formulae. It spent a lot of time explaining how a formula was derived, a student should have an understanding of the reasoning for the formula (or George Berkeley will yell), but this text does not give the formula and what all the variables are at once point. This makes review and looking up formulae rather labourous. The text misses a few important ideas (intensive vs. extensive properties) but spends a rather excessive amount of time on "present sources of energy" in an attempt, I presume, to relate the text to daily life. The data in the back of the book doesn't match up with a good deal of the data I have encountered elsewhere (while the difference isn't huge, it is present). Also, this may be because I came from a background where strict usage of sig figs was required, no points could be awarded if there were mistakes in the sig figs, I have noticed that the text plays rather "loose" with the sig figs. Also, it has comments like "We are keeping track of the sign value for this number in our heads." Furthermore, some of the vocab usage is off from what it should be (i.e. "All values are assumed precise to at least plus/minus 1." is noted on the list of thermodynamic data, it means the data is accurate, how close to the "true" value, and not precise, how close the tests are to one another). These are all minor problems, but proper use of vocab and sig figs are vital to the ability of a student to communcate properly and therefore I feel that the text should provide a model for the student.

Of the GenChem textbooks I have used, I vastly prefer Chemistry : The Central Science by Brown, LeMay and Bursten.

The program is buggy. I was once given a math question during the verbal section and another time was given a high score even if I did poorly( I checked the result afterwards and scoring did not agree with the algorithm taught in book). It gave you false confidence as well.

I'm a long-time user of PR's books (started with Cracking the SAT 12 years ago). Cracking the GMAT is packed with time saving techniques and methods to eliminate bad answers.

What I like best, though, is that they present a back to basics review of each test section rather than ask you to slog through hundreds of formulas, grammar points, etc. like other review books.

I must admit that I haven't used the software that comes with this book so I can not be a judge of the CD-Rom. I will, however, be frank about the book. This was one of the first books on the market after the GMAT format changed to the computer adaptive test. I have to say that this book was very well prepared and researched. This book is very "user-friendly", giving clear and concise tutorials and tips. It also provides plenty (!) of practice questions. This book comes highly recommended.

Although going over the material covered would help, I dont think this is one of the best guides that one can get access to. The sample exams help if this is one's first experience with computer exams!!

I JUST DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY... THIS CD DISPLAYS A COMPLETE LACK OF CONSIDERATION OR RESPECT BY THE PUBLISHER, PROGRAMMER, OR WHOMEVER IS RESPONSIBLE. THE ANSWERS WERE WRONG SO OFTEN THAT I BEGAN TO COMPLETELY IGNORE THEM. ON A POSITIVE NOTE, THE BOOK WAS WELL WRITTEN SO I WILL NOT HOLD GEOFF MARTZ PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE.

I suggest that this book is valuable mainly for its interview tips. That portion of the book is extremely helpful!

Dentistry is the epitomy of aesthetics and sport, the last frontier of plate tectonics if you will. To expect anything other than pure tooth decay from an uncertified mouth doc is being severly optimistic and outright outlandish. Prefer to go to school if you're able, and take a look at a few books if you have the time. This particular specimin can only be valued for its list of third world dentistry schools for the super dunces who have their hearts set on drilling and filling for the rest of their lives. Ougadougu University in Burkina Faso does have a top rate program, unfortunately in this country they still perform vivisection, and for dentists, that means no laughing gas and no skull models, you get a live student for your entire studies. If you accidentally kill him or her you must pay a small fee. Schools to steer clear of are La Universidad Del Diente de Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Lake Baikal School of Dentistry and Horse Medicine, The Skojpe Institute for Cosmetology and Dental Technology, and NYU.
If you are not a good student and are planning to open an denists office in a low income neighborhood, school and certification might not be the right choice for you. The bottom line to any dental degree is that its a pain in the ass, expensive, and extremely boring,and certification is just a safety net, especially in the ghetto, where the surgeon general could really give a damn about what's going on.
Just don't do anything stupid like sell lizards out of your office.

There is some information in this book that you might find helpful if you have other books to fill in the gaps. I found that this book was written with the assumption that the DAT in identical to the MCAT. (IT ISN"T!!!!!) She tells you to study stuff that won't be on the DAT....(e.g physics, discribes the process of testing as though it was also the same as MCAT.)
I wouldn't recommend this book if it is the only book you are going to buy. But if you just want to get an idea of what might be needed, then it will lead you in the general direction.

This book is an easy read, however, much of the information is out of date. The book was written in 1999 and many things have changed since then. Also, the author has never applied to dental school and therefore doesn't really explain the ins and outs of the dental school application process. If you want to get accepted to dental school, check out the Ultimate Dental School Admission Guide instead at www.dentalschooladmission.com Just my 2 cents.

While at the bookstore, I took a break from filling out applications and this was the only book that they carried which was created specifically for dental school applicants.

The book is easy to read, but I didn't find it very useful. The information in there is pretty basic and generic, nothing that most people don't already know about how to get into school (ie - observe at a dentist's office, keep your grades up, do well on the DAT). On the plus side, the book does cover some studying tips, and in the back there are blank pages to record your own application process.

I would recommend that you peruse the book if you happen to fall upon it at the book store -- I've seen it at several around town. However, I wouldn't recommend purchasing it unless you are looking for some elementary guidance.