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The Princeton Review is the fastest growing test-preparation company in the country, with over 60 franchise offices in the nation. Each year, we help more than 2 million students prepare for college, grad school, professional licensing exams, and successful careers.
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给学生买的，到了包装已破，书也污损了，急用，懒得换，但服务的确有很大问题
还不错 就是发票 问题 感觉发票问题是亚马逊的一个硬伤
英语私教老师要求买的。亚马逊自营图书发货真快。
The book seemed pretty good until the first chapter already had basic errors. The words aren't in the alphabetical order they say they are in. For example the words under category Fl through Hi, contain words that are Ex through Fe. And this is only one such instance. The book as a whole seems pretty good but as others have pointed out there are basic issues that need fixing.
Helpful in general, but there are several mistakes in the math sections. Would be best if they separated SSAT and ISEE into two separate books and included many, many more practice questions. Only one upper level practice test. Overall, still helpful though.
Great book for SSAT practice.
This is the worst book on the market, 2 out of the 25 answers in the math section, in the only sampe test that is provided, are wrong. Therefore one should assume the English reading comprehensions answers are wrong and it is rather difficult to unwind a major crying session with a frustrated 13 year old girl. The company's response was also slow and ridiculous.
PROS:
- Comprehensive review of topics. (+2)
- Generous number of drills to reinforce concepts, with answer explanations (+2)
- Competent and adequate practice tests (+1)
- I took off a star here because I noticed some problems with the logical integrity of some of the questions. It's not that some of them are too difficult; it's that they're poorly written. Take, for example, the attached photograph. It was from the upper level ISEE practice test of this book. The correct answer is (A) amiable. The problem is that amiable and monotonous are NOT necessarily antonymous. Sure, it's probably the best answer choice there, but that doesn't make it logically correct. In fact, I also have the 2003 edition of this book, and in that book, the same question is posed, except the correct answer was (C) fascinating, which actually makes sense--" monotonous" means dull, boring, or of a single tone. I don't understand how the answer choices got worse over the span of a dozen-plus years. (The choices were (A) prosaic, (B) vapid, (C) fascinating, and (D) pious.)
CONS:
- Answer explanations not included for the practice tests (-2)
For parents and students studying independently, not having answer explanations can be crippling. At the very least, you'd expect the big name test prep companies to provide full answer explanations. I can sort of understand how small-time authors don't provide answer explanations to their practice test books, but how can a company say they're helping you crack the SSAT & ISEE when practice test answer explanations aren't provided in the book? If you think about it, this book is about 700 pages long. Each test is about 40 pages long on average. Since there are 5 tests, that's roughly 200 pages worth of practice questions that do not have any explanations provided. I think that is egregious for a big name like The Princeton Review. I know from experience that the number of questions solved is not the key driver of test taking success. It's the review portion that is.
I personally don't care because I am a tutor and author, and I can provide my own explanations. In fact, I have my own SSAT book on Amazon with full answer explanations. (Look up SSAT Practice Tests by Won Suh.) When I think of parents and students, however, this is an unfortunate omission from an otherwise competent to laudable book.
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