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| CSET Biological Sciences | 
 enlarge | Creator: Xamonline
Publisher: Xam Online.com
Category: Book
Buy Used: $150.09
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1495280
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581973802
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9781581973808
ASIN: 1581973802
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Title in very good condition. Thousands of satisfied customers!
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| Customer Reviews:
WASTE OF MONEY!!! May 3, 2007
I think they pretty much took most of their stuff from the CSET web page, which has free downloads of helpful information.
DO NOT BUY!!! January 1, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
By the way, there is a new 2006 version, titled CSET Biology Life-Science 120, 124. It has an additional editor, so maybe it will be better, in response to so many horrible reviews that XAM has gotten for most of its publications. However, until reviews crop up for the new version, do yourself a favor and see if you can find a physical copy to take a look at and see if it has any of the problems this version has. XAM has a terrible track record, so be cautious.
Anyway, I'll give you a study guide, and it's absolutely FREE!
1. Download the test guide at the CSET website.
2. Go to the library and crack open the most recently published biology textbook on shelf.
3. Go point by point and make sure you understand each concept detailed in the test guide, using the textbook for reference.
4. What's emphasized the most? Well, pretty much what was emphasized the most for you in college and in high school. So, be able to make a Punnet Square and count the amount of ATP produced in respiration. Photosynthesis. Cell organelles. You know, biology.
How the test goes:
1. You are given four hours to complete however many subtests you signed up for. Being biology, you will also be given a calculator for aparently no reason unless you have to add the amount of hawthorn flies that mate on hawthorn apples*, which I did in my head. However, having the calculator, it was fun to give smug looks to the calculator-less guy with the four math subtests. (*You may not get this question, but I did, maybe)
2. You may work on the tests in any order you wish. You can do a little of subtest III here and a little of II there. Although I wouldn't reccomend it. But you could. Each subtest has a multiple choice section followed by a written portion. Do not worry, my friends who cannot write and that's why you got into science. Sure, you have to be able to give complete and legible answers, but you are not writing any persuasive essays here. Just answering biology questions.
And that's about it. This book doesn't even give you that much information. A lot of the information in the book is completely wrong to boot, especially several answers to the "practice test" which is nothing like the real test, so it's not really practice. The visuals used in the book are poor quality. They look like they were downloaded from a cursory Google image search and then photocopied several times. It's that bad. When I bought the book, I noticed this, and the cheap-o quality of the book structure and still bought it because, hey, some information is better than no information. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE!!! In this case, this book will make you stupid about biology.
Also, for realz yo, this book is so floppy and cheap, as if it were printed on thinly shaved chipboard. Not that I normally care. I'd read a book printed on toilet paper or wood shavings. I have no shame. But this wonderful addition to my library is almost sixty dollars! Most books of this quality and content are handed out free by people at rail stations.
No prep materials! September 23, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is TERRIBLE value and NOT worth the money. The majority of the volume is taken up by a poor summary of the concepts you might expect to see on the exam, and then there is ONE practice exam, plus the answer key. There is none of the information you would expect from a test prep book: the kinds of questions to expect, the logic behind the questions, how to think like the test writers, etc etc. I'd like to say you'd do better to get an SATII prep book from princeton or kaplan, but I don't know if the CSET works the same way that SATII does, so I can't. So, I guess, you'd do better not to get this book at all, and save yourself half a benjamin.
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