How to Prepare for the SAT II World History

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book a great information, though the information given is a bit too much to prepare for a test in under 3 months. Luckily I am naturally smart in history and geography, but what really helped me on the test were the practice quizzes and tests. The World History test really includes more than you will learn in the classroom. It covers art, music, archaeology, general history, anthropology, and economic history. The questions that this book gave basically reappeared on the test. I was a little disappointed in my grade(720) and I should have studied harder. I guarantee at least a 650 on the test if you read this book. Overall the book is great.

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Summary: Great Information, Though a Bit too much
Review: This book a great information, though the information given is a bit too much to prepare for a test in under 3 months. Luckily I am naturally smart in history and geography, but what really helped me on the test were the practice quizzes and tests. The World History test really includes more than you will learn in the classroom. It covers art, music, archaeology, general history, anthropology, and economic history. The questions that this book gave basically reappeared on the test. I was a little disappointed in my grade(720) and I should have studied harder. I guarantee at least a 650 on the test if you read this book. Overall the book is great.

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Summary: Solid information, but too many generalizations.
Review: This book provides the necessary historical data when taking the SAT II World History exam. Much of the factoids in bold in the text, were included on the test. I found this book most useful by studying the terms in bold, rather than reading everything. The authors often make sweeping generalizations that are completely unnecessaryand that are entirely under debate. Also, the practice tests provided are mediocre. The questions are poorly phrased, and do not resemble what is on the actual exam in content or grammatical nature (the 2003 exam emphasized ancient African and Asian history much more than I expected). This book is too opinionated to be a test prep guide, but it does the job.

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Summary: Lots of info, but completely irrelevant to the test
Review: This is a great book to study from if you are taking the SAT II's for World History. It has about 350 pages of detailed information. I just took the test today, and I saw that about 50% of the questions were almost word for word from this book. If you buy this book, make sure that you have enough time to study because there is a lot of information packed into every page. If you can learn/memorize all of the stuff in this book, I can almost guarantee that you will get over 720 (out of 800).

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Summary: Definitely Buy This Book!
Review: This is a great book to study from if you are taking the SAT II's for World History. It has about 350 pages of detailed information. I just took the test today, and I saw that about 50% of the questions were almost word for word from this book. If you buy this book, make sure that you have enough time to study because there is a lot of information packed into every page. If you can learn/memorize all of the stuff in this book, I can almost guarantee that you will get over 720 (out of 800).

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Summary: Great!
Review: This review book is comprehensive and it is loaded with questions. The model tests at the end are helpful.