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Summary: Not a very thorough review
Review: I bought this book over some of the other civil review books because it looked longer and all of the other books had complaints about them. However, now I wish I had ignored those complaints and bought one of the others, because it would be hard for them to be any worse than this book. I would not recommend this as a good review. All of the review topics are VERY brief, most consisting of only a paragraph, if there is any review at all. It is basically a book of sample problems. Granted, the sample problems and explanations definitely help, but the problems all seemed rather simple and I'm worried that the exam questions may be more difficult. Also, there are topics on the civil EIT that are not covered at ALL in this book. The three major topics that are not covered are surveying, computers/numerical methods, and contracts/construction. All of these topics have 6 problems on the exam, just as much as geotech, hydraulics, or transportation! Water treatment was also not covered, unless you consider the environmental engineering chapter to cover it. I don't understand how they could publish an "effective review" book without covering 4 out of the 10 topics on the exam. The only redeeming quality to this review text is that it gives you a sample civil examination, but overall you'll be better off with Lindeburg's book.THIS IS IN ADDITION TO MY PREVIOUS REVIEW GIVEN ABOVE:
I am now writing after actually having TAKEN the EIT exam. My thoughts on this book are even worse than before. My new MAJOR complaint is that the example problems in this review book are MUCH, MUCH EASIER than the actual problems on the EIT exam. I did pretty well on the sample exam in this book, because the problems were all really basic, but the actual exam question were all a level or two HARDER. You'd think a good test prep book would be the other way around. DON'T BUY THIS BOOK.
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