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Standardized tests require extensive verbal and vocabulary skills. Questions are often answered incorrectly simply because the test-taker does not know the meaning of key words used in the question. This book provides a comprehensive verbal and vocabulary builder for the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and LSAT. Includes over 1,700 words commonly seen on these tests together with methods and tools designed to teach the meaning of words in context. Also includes 16 carefully designed exercises and 16 practice sets. These exercises and practice sets clearly and concisely increase vocabulary skills without the use of rote memorization. Book uses "self reference" antonyms, synonyms, and context to impact word meanings in a user-friendly, easy to learn manner.
Customer Reviews:
Well worth every penny.......2007-02-11
This book was amazing!
It is very simple and very straight-forward with the sole purpose of helping your improve your vocabulary...and it works. I got through the book in 8 days, completing two chapters a day. It took me approximately two or three hours of work per day to work with this book. It gives you the tools to really understand a word and remember it. Don't try to save time by not looking up the words and not finding antonyms and synonyms for the words. It will not work. You have to get down to the nitty-gritty and then you will see results. Words that would not stick, I wrote down on flashcards and reviewed them along with the 300 word list from Barron's Passkey to the GRE book.
Say the words out loud, repeatedly do the exercises at the end of each chapter and it will pay off on the GRE exam. I promise! By the way, it is a one-time use book....you will scribble on every page and no one else will be able to use it, but that is what it is....a work book. Buy it!
Place to start for SAT but not great for GRE.......2006-11-03
The words are very basic even for the SAT. Words included are things like "sever" and "enhance". I am studying for the GRE and am finding the Barron's GRE prep book much better for the vocabulary work.
The technique of giving a brief description and sample sentence is good but can be found in other places as well.
The other good point is the words are not in alphabetically order so you don't end up just learning words that start with "A" but never get to "V".
quite helpful, but not just by itself.......2004-06-14
The book takes a different approach on vocabulary building. Unlike the other test prepration of books I have seen, this book does not present you with list of words to memorize.
The best feature of this book is that it makes you work on each new word. I agree with the authors on the fact that this is an effective approach. However, the words listed in this book are not quite the standard of GRE/GMAT. This book would be helpful to those who might be writing the SATs or are just beginning their GMAT/GRE preparation with a very limited vocabulary.
I don't regret buying this book at all, since it isn't very expensive and also i can use the "strategy" of this book with more complex words.
Just a series of multiple choice tests.......2002-12-31
I found this book pretty useless. All it is is a series of 16 multiple choice tests in which you choose the answer that most closely approximates the word given. Sample question: amorphous means a) shapeless b) passionate c) property transfer d) vase-like e) parallel. Each test is preceded by very short definitions of the words plus each one used in a context sentence. It would be okay, I guess, as a superficial refresher, but I didn't find it challenging, and there was no discussion of strategy for the GMAT verbal/vocab section, which is more what I was hoping for.
Good deal!.......2002-11-15
I am a returning student (about to enter graduate school). We are required to take the GRE. This book was a very helpful refresher for me, and you can't beat the price. Service was quick and helpful too!
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As every professional knows, the first step to becoming a successful artist is becoming a successful art student. Written by an experienced artist and educator, The Art Student Survival Guide offers a true insider's perspective on what it takes to survive and succeed in art school. Creatively blending a mixture of one-on-one guidance, practical advice, and inspirational examples, this innovative book provides the essential tools and tips that will make the journey through art school an inspiring and ultimately very rewarding trip. Highlights include the best ways to study, how to manage relationships with peers, faculty, and advisors, tips for creative problem-solving, how to set up a studio, getting to know the “tools of the trade,” and many more useful and motivating advice. The Art Student Survival Guide establishes the work habits and attitudes that lead to a lifetime of success in a highly demanding profession.
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A must buy!!.........2002-03-25
This is a necessary addition to the current body of literature on literacy. The book begins with a concise review of the current research on out-of-school literacies and proceeds to provide fascinating theoretical and practical insights from educators and researchers. An interesting component to the volume is the brief practitioner response that accompanies each chapter. This is a must read for anyone interested in improving the literacy practices of marginalized youth.
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Contains actual reading lists - straight from the professors' desks - from over 100 colleges and universities nationwide and an annotated list of the 100 books most often recommended by leading schools. It also includes guidance for setting up your own personal reading program and a tear-out checklist to help guide your reading selection.
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For ALL Book-Lovers, Not Just Aspiring College Students.......2000-01-25
Many different universities and colleges provided the author with the names of works they recommend or use in first-year English classes. I remember seeing the first edition of this book when I was in high school and falling madly in love with it. Unfortunately, it was at the public library and someone lost it a month after I checked it out. I am an obsessive list-maker and this adds fuel to the fire of my two passions, lists and literature. Not all the books listed in here are predictable, canonical works, either. I'm surprised how many are out-of-print, making the search for great reading material even more fun. One gripe: no comprehensive index. I may just make my own.
A great source for finding something worthwhile to read.......1999-04-02
This book was written by my high school english teachers. It was published and I purchased it years after I graduated from college. I'm using the book as a means to measure how "well read" I am. Whenever, I'm at a loss of what more to read, I pick up this gem and find numerous suggestions. Thank you Doug, Michelle, and Patty.
Effective teaching tool.......1998-08-31
As soon as my college prep and Advanced Placement English students start complaining about "ALL" the reading we have in my class, I break out this little gem and read a couple examples from among the 103 representative college and university lists contained within its pages. The book also offers the high school student a reading program with the goal of reading 100 books from among the lists by the time they enter college. It is a sensible plan with a simple form to chart one's progress. This book has a place in every college prep classroom and on every college hopeful's bookshelf.
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The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn: Schaum's Quick Guides
These concise, quick reference guides are perfect for business people, writers, and students at all levels. Written by top experts, they offer readers the easiest, most efficient strategies to master or learn a new skill. All Schaum's Quick Guides include do's and don'ts for avoiding common errors, handy checklists, and practice exercises for building skills quickly.
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Quickly and simply, this guide gives you clear, concise explanations--illustrated by dozens of examples--that show you how to write the kinds of essays that will help you succeed in college and the professional world.
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A Quick and Superb Guide to Writing Great Essays.......2005-08-03
Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays is a superb reference for learning how to research and write essays. I have assigned this book for the past 5 years, and each year my undergraduates tell me it is the best resource of the class. The book teaches them how to identify a topic, develop a topic question, write a clearly identified thesis statement, and prove their argument through careful use of evidence.
This book also describes how to outline the paper and begin writing, and thus should be required for any class trying to teach students how to construct a research paper. The authors take students through each step of the essay, explaining how to write an introduction, thesis paragraph, the body of the paper, and the conclusion. The authors also teach students how to improve their writing style through carefully constructed paragraphs, sentences and smooth transitions.
The book is clearly and logically organized with many specific examples to help students follow the authors' points. This guide has my highest recommendation for anyone who wants to become a better writer of research papers and essays.
Too Brief--Essay Types NOT Covered.......2004-02-05
I am STILL seeking a general how-to essay book that covers all the rhetorical essay pattern types, even after buying Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays, because this book does not fulfil the promise of it's title, or misleading descriptive information. I received this book yesterday, skimmed through it immediately, and am greatly disappointed.
Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays is only OK as a basic reference guide for grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, with one generic outline. None of its chapters cover the types of essays, such as Compare & Contrast, Persuasive, Descriptive, and so on. This book does not give examples of well written essays, either. Instead, it gives extremely brief example sentences, and occasional paragraph samples only.
One will NOT learn how to write a specific type of essay, which one would expect to from the book title, description, marketing and cover information. I feel incredibly cheated, since returning it for a refund will cost almost half the price of Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays. I would recommend "Elements of Style", "Essays and Themes", or "How to Write Better Essays" instead, as better reference and how-to books on writing essays, with examples, rhetorical essay types and every day applications of essay writing.
Lastly, the book claims to contain exercises for practicing the concepts within, yet there wasn't a single exercise to be found on examination of the actual book. If you already know how to write great essays, and understand the various structure types for essay outlining, then MAYBE this book would be OK as a reference or reminder of a simple concept one has forgotten and needs to look up. Unfortunately, it's claim as a guide to writing great essays is completely false. Save your money.
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Great Careers in Two Years clearly outlines the many advantages of attending America's junior and community colleges. With post secondary education costs rising dramatically, affordability of two-year colleges is a major advantage.
Two-year colleges can also be an excellent gateway to a career. Great Careers in Two Years links more than 100 promising and rewarding careers to two-year degree programs. This book is a must for students, parents, teachers, libraries, and guidance offices.
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Careers in Two Years.......2000-04-05
As a counselor in a Community College, I found this book to be an excellent example of ways in which our students could use their degrees. Many of the students at a two year college are not aware of what they could use their degrees for and this book helps to make them aware of their options.
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A little gem that is still worthwhile.......2005-05-08
Although this book is now more than a decade old it is still an invaluable resource for parents and students. Of particular importance is the introduction by Wm. F. Buckley Jr. Even if you and your college bound youngster do not choose one of the recommended colleges, the introduction will enlighten and familiarize you with what a classical or "liberal arts" education, vs. technical or vocational training, should be. You can thus judge the educational institutions you are condsidering by the criteria and characteristics described in the book.
I had my own list of acceptable colleges for my daughter, all derived from this book, but she fell in love with a college that didn't make the list -- primarily because of its reputation for being far on the left of the political and social spectrum. In light of the essays and guidelines offered in this book I was comfortable with her choice -- because her small, private, liberal arts college did demand the core curriculum, based on 5000 years of knowledge and culture from western civilization, that any good liberal arts college or university should provide, no matter the size or purported reputation. These criteria for an enduring, quality education have not changed for hundreds of years, so the fact that this book was published in 1993 should not be a hindrance to its critical regard and purchase.
(Daughter was graduated from Reed College in Portland, OR)
One of the better college guides.......2000-06-26
Leftists concerned about the "National Review" authorship should not be deterred from reading and using this book.
This is a great guide to where you'll find a good, solid liberal arts curriculum. If your idea of a solid liberal arts curriculum does not match the author's, then the text is certainly useful as a way to eliminate schools from your list.
We discovered Schenectady's Union College in this guide, went to visit, and were so impressed, we put it on my child's list of schools to apply to. We would never have considered it, without this guide book.
Needs to be updated. The ISI Guide is more complete........1999-04-26
Getting your kid into a good college is a nerve-racking process for most parents. It certainly has been for us. We have found the customer reviews in Amazon very helpful. That prompts us to distill our ratings of the various guidebooks.
The best short reference on each college is the Princeton Review of The Best (311) Colleges. It gives ratings of academic quality, difficulty of admission, percentage admitted, etc. There is also a brief summary of college life and what each place might be looking for.
Peterson Guide is comprehensive, and has long write-ups for each school. There is a front section for each school, listed alphabetically within each state, and a back section with detailed profiles of selected institutions.
Fiske's guide is interesting, but he basically has something good to say for each school, so careful reading between the lines and for "damning with faint praise" is called for.
The Yale Insider's Guide is extremely subjective, with different students writing various reviews. We did not find it too reliable, except in conjunction with other books.
Likewise for Barrron's Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges. Recent alumni write of their (invariably positive) experiences. Take it with a grain of salt, or read carefully between the lines.
Choosing the Right College by ISN was extremely helpful. Some readers criticized it for being allegedly right wing. We did not find it so. Rather, knowing the point of view of the authors helped us evaluate their observations. Other books do not make their biases explicit. A feature of the book we found particularly helpful was the naming of excellent professors and departments in each college.
Antonoff's College Finder was interesting only in conjunction with other books.
Three books written from the perspective of college admissions officers were very interesting and helpful. They are The College Admissions Mystique, by Mayher, Getting In, by Bill Paul, and most of all A is for Admission by Michelle Hernandez. We strongly recommend that parents and the kids who are the applicants read at least one of these.
Another very helpful book was You're Gonna Love This College Guide, by Marty Nemko. It takes the student through the decision process of big vs. small, urban vs. country, elite vs. the level just below, geography, and so forth. That really got our daughter unstuck in her thinking process.
Loren Pope is another helpful author for those who think that not getting into Harvard is the end of the world.
Three books we did not find to be particularly helpful are Getting Into Any College, by Jim Good and Lisa Lee, The National Review College Guide, by Charles Sykes and Brad Miner (too out of date), and The Real Freshman Handbook, by Jennifer Hanson.
One book we found to be unexpectedly useful was Getting Into Medical School Today, by Scott Plantz, et. al. Even if your child is not interested in medical school, this book puts college in perspective for any post-college program.
We hope readers find our review helpful.
Book changed my life........1998-09-25
Just reading the intro material rearranged my understanding of what it means to be educated. . . This book forever changed my life (!). Now that I've graduated (from one of the schools included), I hand out this book to young worthies that will benefit from its content and guidance.
A must read for the family of any college bound child........1998-05-02
Any concerned parent of a college-bound student would do well to read this book and take its warnings seriously. Too many college students have been graduated with little or no knowledge of the bases of western civilization, and many have not had the pleasure of being taught in small classes by real professors. Choosing a college from this list will almost guarantee your student a good foundation for applying thought and critical analysis to the ideas they will encounter the rest of their life. This book rates, in my opinion, right up there with Charles Sykes's "A Nation of Victims," and Dinesh D'Souza's "Illiberal Education." All three books will forever change the way you view education in America.
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Thinking about going to film school? Don't send in that application just yet--first read this book, the definitive guide to film schools around the country. The 26 institutions reviewed are rated according to the quality and accessibility of their equipment, the kind of films their faculty encourage students to make ("industry," "independent," "experimental"), and cost. The authors discuss the schools' programs in detail, advise readers about whether film school is the right choice for them, provide tips about getting into the programs, and describe what to expect once film school begins. Karin Kelly and Tom Edgar's prose is spirited and their entertaining introductory portrait of the state of American filmmaking will interest anyone who cares about contemporary movies. An informative and amusing glossary closes the volume, which explains why no one should try to lift an ARRI kit by the handle, why "experimental film" is just another word for "cinematic masturbation," and why no good movie script ever contained the line, "you just don't get it, do you?"
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Now completely revised-all there is to know on getting into the right schools and making the experience count.
This completely revised edition of Film School Confidential continues to offer the inside scoop on every major film school program in the country. A must-have guide for students who are considering applying to film school, this book provides more than 20 profiles of the best film school programs across the country. Covering such key areas as curriculum, student body, reputation, and employment options for film school grads, the authors provide solid, objective information on each program as well as snippets from interviews with students and faculty members.
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Book worth it, film school...?.......2007-09-25
Excellent- great discussion of the value proposition of film school. One thing I found odd though- they estimated one year rent and living expenses in New York at $20k. Living where, in a cardboard box, eating ramen noodles? Anyway, I highly recommend the TV reality show series "Film School," on DVD. As for the question of whether to go, I think it says a lot that the #1 reason to go is the contacts you'll make. Do you need to spend three years and god only knows how much money to make some friends/contacts? Anytime that's used as a justification for the cost of grad school, watch out! They say the same thing about business school, and I don't know a single person who wouldn't be where they are today if it weren't for b-school.
i'm glad i bought this.......2007-08-12
I am actually looking for undergraduate programs and this book seems to focus more on graduate degrees but it was useful anyway.
Can a book be encouraging by being discouraging?.......2007-06-27
I plan to go to film school to get a Master's in screenwriting. After reading this book, I almost changed my mind. The book is a blunt dose of reality and gives you straight talk on what you get for your money. It also tells you how much money you'll need to beg, borrow, or steal in order to pay for film school. I appreciated the honesty once I got past the shock of it all. The book helped me narrow down the schools that I feel would be a best fit for me-some were a surprise. For example, did you know that at FSU, they will pay for your film to be made? Did you know that Chapman University in pleasant Orange, California, has practically brand new facilities? If you want to make animal or insect documentaries (don't laugh, they pay!) then Montana is the right school. For me personally, I know that New York, while being a great city, is not going to work for me due to expense and the hyper-competitive nature of the schools. You'll find what you need to know. The book is primarily for film makers, not writers, but there is an attempt to give a good review of the writing programs. Do not apply to film school until you read this book and the sooner the better.
Film School Confidential.......2007-05-15
This updated edition gives you a very good insight of some of the biggest names of film schools. It also gives you an idea what you should look for when you get out of a film school. As film making is only centered in NYC and LA, graduates will have hard time finding work if the schools do not have good internship and connections. Even though this book only covers grad schools, general information should apply to undegrades as well. Unfortunately, the book did not cover more quality films schools such as SVA, RIT or Emmerson. Nontheless, this is the only book on this subject. It is a must for students and parents. Bottom line: If you would want a career in films, stay away from schools that emphasize on experimental films such as Ohio University, UW Milwaukee or some of remotely located state universities regardless how they are ranked by US News & World Report or Entertainment Weekly. The other tip is to look for their famous alumni. If most of them end up doing underground experimental films in the film festivals only, you probably will be one of these starving artists upon graduation. In general, this book teaches a lot beyond rating film schools. It gives you a perspective of how tough this business is and how you can prepare for it. My son is planning to apply to a film school next year. I went through the web sites of almost 100 film schools in the nation and reach the same conclusion of the author of this book. But not anyone can go to NYU & USc. With that being said there is still good hope going other solid schools as long as you don't end up doing experimental films which are mostly incomprehensible. But once again, if you enjoy taching or being a starving artist without thinking about earning a decent living, then it is perfectly fine going to schools like UW Milwaukee. In addition, if you want to be a film critic, you probably can go anywhere. Roger Ebert was majored in literature at Urbana-Champagne. This book is for students who want to take a shot at careers such as directors, producers, editors, etc.,
The Inside Scoop.......2005-09-16
This book was amazing. It helps you plan and think more seriously about how you plan what school you go to. It gives you information on how many students really get excepted and how much your going to be in the whole financially when your actually graduate. The only criticism I have is that it was published in 1997 but still it a great book to have for someone who is serious about grad school in film.
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