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If It's on the CBEST, It's in This Book
We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about mathematics, reading, and writing –only the techniques you'll need to score higher on the CBEST. There's a big difference. In Cracking the CBEST, we'll teach you how to think like the test writers and
·Eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool you
·Prepare for the new challenges of the revised CBEST
·Raise your score by mastering the critical analysis and evaluation area of the reading section
·Ace the math section by knowing what to expect
This book includes 2 full-length practice CBEST exams. All of our practice questions are just like the ones you’ll see on the actual CBEST, and we fully explain every solution.
- Sales Rank: #117676 in Books
- Published on: 2002-12-10
- Released on: 2002-12-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.81" h x .99" w x 8.34" l, 1.43 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From the Inside Flap
If It's on the CBEST, It's in This Book
We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about mathematics, reading, and writing –only the techniques you'll need to score higher on the CBEST. There's a big difference. In Cracking the CBEST, we'll teach you how to think like the test writers and
·Eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool you
·Prepare for the new challenges of the revised CBEST
·Raise your score by mastering the critical analysis and evaluation area of the reading section
·Ace the math section by knowing what to expect
This book includes 2 full-length practice CBEST exams. All of our practice questions are just like the ones you'll see on the actual CBEST, and we fully explain every solution.
About the Author
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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314 of 318 people found the following review helpful.
Before buying CBEST books, read this...
By Daniel
I took the CBEST yesterday morning (06/16/07)and have several observations and suggestions which not only do I hope you'll find helpful but with any luck can save you some time and grief. I purchased four review books. The Princeton Review's Cracking the CBEST (2002)," Cliff's Testprep "CBEST, 6th Edition,(2000)" Learning Express' "The Complete Preparation Guide CBEST (2006)," and Barron's "How to Prepare for the CBEST (2001)." Additionally, I purchased one on-line guide and began receiving emails with "tips of the day" from another. Neither on-line guide was helpful in the least and I would caution you to stay away from them no matter how luring their websites are.
Now onto the test (and then I'll come back to the guidebooks). The test, as I'm sure you're aware is divided into three sections: Reading, math and a writing portion in which you're asked to write two essays.
Let's start with the math. If you go to the official CBEST website they will tell you specifically what you need to know in order to pass this part of the exam. There is no geometry (apparently there was a law suit several years ago and the math portion was made easier) and the algebra on the test is beginner stuff. About the most difficult algebra question went something like this: 10y - 36 + 4y - 6 + y = 3. What's the value of y? Most of the questions are basic math and if I can do them, so can you!
With the exception of The Princeton Review's "Cracking the CBEST," all the guidebooks, when it came to math, were significantly more difficult than you need to know. The biggest offender of this was Learning Express' "The Complete Preparation Guide CBEST" which included very high level math and was poorly written and filled with mistakes. The book also comes with a CD of practice tests but the tests on the CD are nothing more than the same questions from the text in a different order. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK -- YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. In fact we should all stay away from Learning Express' books; after all, as consumers all we can do to send a message to those who try and rip us off is to boycott their products. Enough said...
Barron's "How to Prepare for the CBEST" math sections was also more difficult than it needed to be. Additionally they do something that never seems to appear on the actual test. Very often their "choice E" will be "none of the above." I still haven't run into none of the above on any actual CBEST test. I also had an older version of this text and when I compared the two I found almost no difference which I felt odd since between the two publications the test has changed.
Cliff's TestPrep's "CBEST (6th Edition) should be the best of the bunch based on the entire line of Cliff's books but while this one is pretty good it's not great. Again, they're not up to date on what's really necessary to learn with regard to the math section, also taking the reader deeper into math than the test taker will ever need to pass the CBEST. But as one of your guides, I do recommend this one but do your own editing with too complex math problems.
The best of the bunch (for math) was The Princeton Review's "Cracking the CBEST." In fact on page 7 the authors explain how the CBEST has changed recently. For math, this book is excellent. Enough said.
A suggestion to make this experience a bit easier is first go to the CBEST site, read about the specifications but DON'T TAKE THE PRACTICE TEST YET. Use this guide (Princeton's) first and take their practice tests. When you feel you're ready take the official CBEST Practice Test (which you'll find is very close to the actual test), see how you do and what you still need to review. Sadly, CBEST only offers one practice test.
READING: First of all, the CBEST passages are reading comprehension and they're short. Think about it, you only have four hours to answer 50 math questions, 50 reading questions and write two essays. There's simply not enough time for long reading passages. The CBEST Reading practice test is a realistic example of the length of the passages.
Barron's "How to Prepare for the CBEST" was pretty good (not great) with their reading section prep. Cliff's TestPrep was also good and I thought some of their suggestions and study strategies were very good. Princeton Review's "Cracking the CBEST" reading section was very good and they have a section called "How to Crack It" which was very helpful in their breaking down of the different types of reading questions.
Learning Express' "The Complete Preparation Guide CBEST" was sloppy. One of the questions asked about something that wasn't mentioned and there were several mistakes.
For the Writing portion I recommend both Cliff's TestPrep and The Princeton Review's "Cracking the CBEST." They both give some good tips and sample essays. Princeton has a template you can follow for your essay which was helpful. The one frustrating aspect of their writing section was they only had the opening paragraph of their sample essay when it would have been helpful to have the entire sample essay to review.
One suggestion is to practice writing essays in short periods of time. By the way most of the sample questions I've run into in these guides are pretty close to what's actually asked on the exam. Yesterday's questions were something like, "if you could change one thing about schools what would it be?" and people can find happiness in the little things -- do you agree (something like that).
I guess this has been a long winded way of saying there are two guidebooks that are worth buying: The Princeton Review's "Cracking the CBEST," and CliffsTestPrep (although it's out of date for math.)
Good Luck.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars
By Joli
Great book, easy to study tests. Nailed the test first time around. Great study guide for its time
35 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
SLAMMED the CBEST!
By Avalon
I took the CBEST this morning (August 2010) and slammed it -- a perfect 80 in Reading, and a solid pass in Math. Thank you, Rick Sliter! This book is all I used. I had both the Kaplan and the Cliff Notes CBEST prep books. Both were far inferior to this one; after a quick flip through, I discarded them both and focused on this one only. What can I say, I aced it, I couldn't be happier!
I scanned the reading section once and took the practice tests, which prepared me to analyze precisely between multiple correct answers and choose the "best" one. The practice tests in the book were slightly harder than the CBEST in reading, which I thought was good -- not onerously hard, but hard enough to make me really think carefully about each answer.
I knew Math would be my weakest subject. I studied this book for a week and passed it easily. (I really thought I would do better than I did, but I passed by more than 20 points, so I shouldn't complain.) Besides this book, the best CBEST practice tests I found for Math review were at the CBEST website; another good source is the Test Prep Review website. The second one is harder than you will need (don't stress over the really hard problems), but I felt it was good practice. The questions on the actual test are very much like the ones in this book; I felt well-prepared seeing the test questions since I had studied this book so carefully.
I haven't yet received my essay scores, but am hopeful they will be good, if not very good. "Cracking the CBEST" gave me exactly the information I needed to know what the essay scorers will be looking for. If you are very weak on essays, I'm not sure this resource is enough, you may want to find a more basic book or a tutor. If you're average to good, this book will help you polish your writing skill and hone it into exactly what you will need for the test.
One caution, I set aside 4 hours and took the entire practice test, start to finish, all at once, just like the real test. I finished all three sections in under 3 hours, including rewriting both my essays longhand because of all the editing I did to the rough drafts. However, I barely completed the actual CBEST in the 4 hours they allow; I could have used 10 more minutes to check over my work. So don't assume your timing will be the same on the practice test as on the actual test; mine wasn't. In the actual test, I finished both the Math and Reading sections in an hour or less each, but took a lot of time on the essays. (I love writing, I sometimes take quite a bit of time to rework passages or think of just the right descriptive word for a sentence.)
I made sure I could answer each and every question in this book, particularly the Math questions. It was all the preparation I needed. I graduated from college in the 80's -- so I really needed a full review. This book did it all for me. If you are taking the CBEST, the best advice I can give you is to get this book and study it thoroughly!
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