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Summary: Filled with errors.
Review: Compared to the other Kaplan SAT II books this one was a major disappointment. The material was poorly covered and the book is filled with small errors. While all the material is correct, there are many typograpphical errors and other errors that should have been caught by editors. There are many typos in the otherwise very helpful practice tests. Many questions are mispelled and the answers in the back do not match up with the same questions in the test. Kaplan was very sloppy with this one. However since this is their first edition the second may be better.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I purchased, and began studying with, this book three months prior to the examination. I went in on test day knowing the book cover-to-cover, but did not score above the average test score. As a straight-A physics student, I was highly disappointed with my results. Though the book did break down the basics, it did not go beyond those basics, and subsequently resulted in a less-than-comprehensive text. If you wish to take the Physics test, I would strongly recommend an AP Physics book, or even any other book.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I purchased, and began studying with, this book three months prior to the examination. I went in on test day knowing the book cover-to-cover, but did not score above the average test score. As a straight-A physics student, I was highly disappointed with my results. Though the book did break down the basics, it did not go beyond those basics, and subsequently resulted in a less-than-comprehensive text. If you wish to take the Physics test, I would strongly recommend an AP Physics book, or even any other book.
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Summary: Filled with errors.
Review: This guide is well-written making it easy to choose just the topics you are weakest in. It seems better than the competing Barrons books. Take the practice tests!
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Summary: Well organized and MORE sample tests
Review: This guide is well-written making it easy to choose just the topics you are weakest in. It seems better than the competing Barrons books. Take the practice tests!
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Summary: Mediocre at Best
Review: With about a month left to prepare for the SAT II: Physics test, and a college level background in Mechanics (from preparing for the AP Physics test), I purchased this book with the hopes of improving my knowledge of electricity, magnetism, thermal physics, and everything else the test covers that isn't Newtonian Mechanics.After working my way through the book in about two weeks, I began taking the practice tests, and low and behold, I was near 800 on every single one of them (I believe I averaged a 780 on them), and was finishing in half the alloted time. However, once I sat down in the classroom on that Saturday morning to take the real thing, I suddenly realized that the level of questions on the test was much more difficult than anything I encountered in the book. Sure enough, based on my guessing skills, and leaving the right questions blank, I was able to get a 700 on the test, with only ten minutes left to spare to check over my work (as opposed to thirty while practicing). 700 was exactly the minimum score I wanted, so I was quite content with it after how badly I felt right after taking it. However, I was unhappy that the book led me to believe that my score would be higher than it actually turned out to be. In the future, I hope Kaplan models their practice tests more accurately to the level of questions on the test.
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