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College entrance exams and graduate school admissions tests: have you taken a formal course to train for one of these? If you've had shelled out the money and sat through a complete course, share your experience (and results) with others preparing for the SAT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, etc.

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522 days ago

Review Icon CanadaSucks reviewed Foreign Service Exam in Standardized Tests by Difficulty:
Two very intelligent friends of mine have been humbled by this brutal test. They said it was easily harder than the GRE or LSAT.

(Update) Lord CS has passed this test and I knock it down to 4 stars - yes, it's tough but you can take it once a year - hence, it can be a learned process where the true stubborn individual can eventually pass it. . .

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522 days ago

Review Icon twansalem reviewed ASVAB in Standardized Tests by Difficulty:
Way too easy. We were required to take it in high school, whether you had any interest in entering the military or not. The problem is that if you get a good score, you'll have recruiters calling you day and night. I can't tell you how many recruiters I had to tell to get lost because I wasn't interested.

If you are required to take this test and have no intention of going into the military, my advice to you is to tank the hell out of this test so the recruiters leave you alone. I wish I had. No one besides military recruiters look at this stuff anyway. It's not like a bad ASVAB score will affect your college applications.

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522 days ago

Review Icon CanadaSucks reviewed SAT in Standardized Tests by Difficulty:

The SAT has been dumbed-down for the recent generation of overfed and overmedicated trolls who hate reading.

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522 days ago

Review Icon twansalem reviewed GRE in Standardized Tests by Difficulty:
The general GRE isn't necessarily hard, but they don't give you enough time, especially on the math section. It feels more like a test of how fast you are rather than a test of what you know.

The physics GRE on the other hand, may be the hardest standardized test I have ever taken. I've taken harder tests, but no standardized test has come close.

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522 days ago

Review Icon twansalem reviewed ACT in Standardized Tests by Difficulty:
The format of the ACT was very similar to the ITBS/ITEDs that we took in elementary-high school, so that made it a lot simpler.

My only complaint is that there wasn't enough time on the science section. I probably could have gotten a perfect score on that section if they actually gave enough time to think. I didn't have time for the last 3 or 4 questions, and still got a 32 for science.

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522 days ago

Review Icon twansalem reviewed PSAT in Standardized Tests by Difficulty:
It wasn't a difficult test, but I'm giving it three stars because the format was an unnecessary psych-out. A multiple choice test where you actually lose extra points for a wrong answer? What the hell? If I remember right, instead of just being worth 0, a wrong answer made you lose 1/4 the value of a correct answer.

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539 days ago

Review Icon Robert57 reviewed SAT in Standardized Tests by Difficulty:
They added a third section on writing in 2005. The old two part test familiar to most had a mean of 1000 with a standard deviation of 200. That means 16% should score over 1200, 2% over 1400, and 0.1% a perfect 1600. Actual results are close to that, showing scores have a normal distribution (bell curve).

Mean score of freshmen entering top ten schools is over 1450 = upper 1%. Remember, half were higher than the mean. Caltech is highest at 1515, the only one over 1500.

Celebrities who got near perfect scores are Bill O'Reilly, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, James Woods, Ben Affleck, and Will Smith. Rush Limbaugh scored 1530. Gates initially got 1590 because he missed one question. He took it a second time to get a perfect 1600.

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789 days ago

Review Icon veritasprepfraud reviewed Veritas GMAT in GMAT Prep:
Veritas prep course is total fraud. This company run by a scam artist -- Chad Troutwine, who claims to be an attorney but is not admitted to any bar - and makes all kinds of phony-baloney claims about just about everything it does. To get more expose on this fraudster, visit www.veritasprepfraud.com If you have any information about its hiring of instructors, or if you have worked for this company as a tutor or taken the prep course and got burnt, sent email to [email protected]
It is about time this fraudster is put where it belongs: in the dustbins.

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816 days ago

Review Icon erittenberg reviewed Gerry Grossman Online Standard Written Test Bank in Best Study Material for MFT Written Exam California:
My review is about Gerry and I am sure that says much about his professional materials and his staff of instructors and yes, the test banks too!

So, I suppose this is my own in part psychosocial findings: Gerry is a kind loving soul who embodies the people sensitive attributes. He is a very caring and sensitive professional and no doubt his professional materials reflect his witty personality. He cares about the field of social work and humanity in general and appears to be a man who strives for excellence. With so many questions and so many new ones, he has to have a team of talented diverse entusiastic folks.

I am probably a different kind of story. When I started to acquire hours, almost 3 years ago, I invested in everything Gerry had to offer! I knew this test was going to be a challenge, being that I got my Masters degree many moons ago. I have since taken 2 review courses and done several mock exams and am grateful that I did. My scores have gotten better. I have had great instructors who have been there for me way after the review courses were over. I have taken those classes needed for licensure with ease. The staff at the office could not be nicer. It can get so confusing to keep up with what you need to stay on top of it. Gerry and his up to date personal emails are like having a personal secretary. I can't say enough.

I am sure that when I write I again, you will hear that I have passed the exam!

_~~~ Ellen F. Rittenberg, MSW; ASW

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1006 days ago

Review Icon passmymfttest reviewed AATBS Written Books in Best Study Material for MFT Written Exam California:
I purchased the AATBS MFT written exam study material, and I have taken the MFT (1st exam) twice and failed. The information presented by AATBS is not preparing you to take an "application" test, rather it prepares you on studying and memorizing concepts, theories and key words. I tried to get my money back for the vignette exam but AATBS was not cooperative (I have not taken my second exam yet). I recently purchased Gerry Grossman study material and test bank and I have to say, the questions are really closely related to the format in the actual exam. Much more economical and easy to understand. Questions are worded in such a way in which it teaches you how to apply theory, law and ethics, crisis management, etc. All of my other colleagues/friends purchased Gerry Grossman and they passed the first time and already licensed. AATBS is not the way to go, the workshop I attended was useless and did not learn anything new from what you will learn from reading the study material. In fact, when you go to their workshop, they give you a small book which highlights pretty much diagnosis, theory and law and ethics, on top of that they claim to teach you test taking strategies, and all the trainer did was read from the book. Don't make the same mistake I made and purchase AATBS, otherwise you might end up being unlicensed for 1 more year.

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