I bought this book one week before the test was to be administered. As I thumbed through I found out on test day, that this prep, was very useful. Taking the Elementary Education: Content Knowledge portion, as i was told, is very difficult. However, this study guide really was of great help especially in the area of science and math.

Thankfully, I passed this test,with flying colors, on my first attempt. I recommend this book to anyone who is serious about passing this exam.

ps Pray and study smart.

This book got me through my Praxis tests with flying colors. I recommend it highly for the PPST and the PLT.

I also had to take a social studdies subject assessment. Let me tell you that there is almost no review available for this test. I only found the newspaper print books from ETS with about 10 questions and the questions in this book. I was very thankful to get some additional help. I don't know anyone who bought the book just for the subject assessment section, and you should not do that either. But if you buy the book for the main Praxis tests you'll be happy for this extra help.

It would be terrible if Barrons takes out the subject assessment section because of the criticism, and it would probably not cost them the sales of any books. It would only mean to people like me that there will be even less help for these tests.

This book got me through my Praxis tests with flying colors. I recommend it highly for the PPST and the PLT.

I also had to take a social studdies subject assessment. Let me tell you that there is almost no review available for this test. I only found the newspaper print books from ETS with about 10 questions and the questions in this book. I was very thankful to get some additional help. I don't know anyone who bought the book just for the subject assessment section, and you should not do that either. But if you buy the book for the main Praxis tests you'll be happy for this extra help.

It would be terrible if Barrons takes out the subject assessment section because of the criticism, and it would probably not cost them the sales of any books. It would only mean to people like me that there will be even less help for these tests.

I bought this book specifically to study for a subject area test, hoping to get an idea of the general types of questions that would be covered for the social studies exams. I was expecting a CD that I'd use with my computer to take a simulated test. What I received was a book with 25 practice questions. Many of these contained questions for which two of the four answers could have been correct--one is a p.c. answer and the other is what I learned was correct in graduate level history classes. The book fails to acknowledge this and offer guidelines, and has left me frightened about taking the exam in a couple of weeks.

As a historian, my primary concern was what would be covered in the 'other social studies' topics and the PLT portion. Non-history social studies topics are covered in 2 pages of review and 5 practice questions. The PLT review contains the following sentence, "Most Native Americans living today are ANCESTORS of tribes conquered and put on reservations about 100 years ago." I hope no one uses that pearl of wisdom on an answer! [This isn't merely a typo, ancestors is used instead of decendents a number of times.]

As for that CD, it's an audio CD that is used to prepare for the listening portion of the Praxis, it is not a tool to simulate the test.

This book is nothing but a bunch of jargon. I just received the results from 2 parts of the praxis test and I failed again. I studied a bunch of unnecessary information and did not feel prepared for the test. However, the General Knowledge and Communications with audio was a good predictor of what was going to be on the test.