Firefighter Written Practice Exams

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Summary: Riddled with errors and gives no explanations for answers.
Review: Preparing for the written exam, I purchased four test-prep books. This was the only dissappointment. It is riddled with grammatical mistakes, type-o's, and just plain wrong answers to the questions (I'm not here referring just to places where I disagree with the author, but to such things that are positively mistakes--like mistakes in math which can be checked with a calculator). What makes this particularly problematic is that there are no explanations for any of the answers; so when your answer doesn't match that in the answer key, you may be left wondering whether it is you or the answer key which is mistaken. Also, this book contains no memory/observation questions and no directional orientation questions (these are component of many firefighter written exams). On the positive side, it does contain some question-types which are not commonly found in other test-prep books, such as cube-counting, number and letter progressions (i.e., "what's the next ! number in the series?"), and analogies. I have been led by other sources to expect at least one of these--cube counting-- on the Honolulu County exam which I will be taking. All things considered, however, this book needs a major overhaul if it is to be worth anything near its price.