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Your guide to a higher score on the Praxis II?: Social Studies Content Knowledge Test (0081)

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About the contents:

Introduction
* Overview of the exam
* How to use this book
* Proven study strategies and test-taking tips
* Tactics for answering multiple-choice questions, plus practice examples with answers and explanations

Part I: Subject Review
* Focused review of all exam topics: world history, United States history, government/political science/civics, geography, economics, and the behavioral science fields of sociology, anthropology, and psychology

Part II: 2 Full-Length Practice Examinations
* Like the actual exam, each practice exam includes 130 multiple-choice questions, with sections on each of the 6 categories
* Complete with answers and explanations for all questions

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2 out of 5 stars

Virtually Useless July 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I just took the Praxis II Social Studies Content Knowledge test just the other day and I must admit - I am not particulary feeling very confident after using this book as a review/ study guide. Granted my degree is in history, but the book itself (which may I add took two weeks to get, receiving it three days before the test when they stated up to 4 business days) was virtually useless.

I found so many grammatical errors, misinformation, and down right wrong answers to the questions stated. The test had I believe maybe three questions from the Cliff Notes let alone majority of it was on gov't, behav sciences, and econ. The book in my opinion is not worth the money unless you want to use it as a quick reference but I would recommend using another form of study guide that has its information relative and up to date.

2 out of 5 stars

A waste, but you got to start somewhere... July 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought this book thinking it was going to be a good review of all the topics, and as mentioned by other posters, it's full of typos and is not very thorough. While no book can adequately review all the content included in the Praxis, this one leaves out basics that should have been covered. However, it is good for a couple reasons... it has two practice tests. The practice tests seem to have the most typos. The best way I've found to study for these tests is to use a combination of things- old textbooks/lecture notes from college, cliffs notes of each individual section (econ, US history, etc.) and the actual prep book from ETS (which also had it's problems). Long story short... buy this book knowing it is extremely basic and incomplete, be aware of typos/mistakes, & practice using the tests in the back.

2 out of 5 stars

Carelessly written waste of money June 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this book online without skimming through the actual volume in the bookstore, which was my mistake. It is a carelessly written and poorly executed preparation for PRAXIS II Social Studies Content Knowledge. There is very little in the way of familiarization or study skills for the test. The book does not give the reader any indication as to how the test is scored, therefore the reader cannot use the practice tests as an accurate gauge of his/her performance. The review section is shoddily written, with many spelling and typographical errors. It does not provide any kind of in-depth review, it merely states historical events without any kind of context to aid in understanding. It does not cover everything it purports to cover, although in fairness, this is difficult to do. The explanations for the answers are half-hearted and, at times, confusing. Overall, this book is a waste of time and money, and I was fortunate to have been an astute student of history all my life. Otherwise, I would have been out of luck.

3 out of 5 stars

When I took the test, I thought it wasn't helpful enough.... April 11, 2008
But then I got my scores. I got a 170 on Content Knowledge and 169 on Interpretation of Materials. After the test, I was sure I had failed. So was this book helpful? I guess yes and no. I studied what it told me to study, and I did the practice tests in the back. Not very much of what was in the book was on my test, but it must be somewhat helpful for me to get that score.
I would buy it, but realize that the test is incredibly hard and no book will completely prepare you. As for this book specifically, there were typos and confusing questions but all in all a good jumping off point.

5 out of 5 stars

I have purchased this along with other books and this one helps! January 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am in the process of studying for the Praxis Exam 0081. I purchased the ETS edition first then I purchased the cliff notes edition. The praxis edition gave me the actual subject topics that I will need to be sucessful at passing this test, but I had to reasearch every single topic. The cliff notes version gives you information about the topic. The summarys were very helpful and they were pretty close to the accurate research that I had done for different subject areas. The actual practice test is better in the ETS version because it is an old exam, but with both items and research, I should not have a problem passing this exam. The people that think that this study guide sucks do to the type-o's is paying to much attention to what isnt important. This book is a study guide. That means it gives you the directions that you need to study sucessfully, not the answers. Its your job to utilize the information as well as other sources (history books, economic books) to make sure that you have enough knowledge to pass this test. This books gives you a very good starting point. I wish I would have purchased it first.