There is not need to buy this book. The practice section is the same as the one in the other Thomson book, PCAT success 2004, but atleast in that book you get a second practice test. I don't know how it will relate to the actual pcat yet, but it was a waste of my money.

The title on the front states that "ARCO is the leader in test preparation". If this is true I'd really hate to see all the other brands. This book led me to believe the practice questions presented would be similiar in content and form as the actual test. The only thing I saw similiar to the actual test was that the test was in a multiple choice format. I found the practice questions to be no where near the difficulty of the PCAT. The verbal ability part only gave example questions of antonyms and synonyms, leaving out analagies which is half of the verbal ability test.

Listen, I just took the PCAT about an hour ago. This book is not good. Biology questions were not even close, chemistry questions were a little better, but not close. Worthless.
The first review was probably someone selling books.
Trust me. Bad.

Hey what can I say? This is a VERY GOOD BOOK. Belive it or not this book has some questions that I found on the actural PCAT test!!! It is not many (about 5-10 out of the entire test that I can remember) but it helps A LOT. If you want to get a PCAT book, get this one first then the others. It is crude looking but don't let that fool you. It is a good book. It was even nice enough to give you a listing of the accredited pharmacy colleges and where you can write to apply for the test. A complete preparation book.