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Title: OAT: Complete Preparation for the Optometry Admission Test, 2001 Edition, The Science of Review by Aftab S. Hassan, Lippincott, Williams ISBN: 0-7817-2840-1 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of money
Comment: This book is definitely NOT "Complete Preparation for the OAT." It offers useless generic advice such as not studying late at night. The actual review material is condensed to a few pages and an outline of every topic tested. The instruction even tell you that you can purchase thier MCAT book for more information. All in all, there is nothing in this worthless book that is of any use.
I suggest the Exam Kracker series of MCAT books. They have thourough coverage of Bio, Chem, Organic Chemk, Physics and Math. The books are clear and concise and use figures to illustrate the text. Also, review questions are found at the end of every section to gauge understanding. Although these books are a bit more expensive in all, it is worth it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Buy Kaplan's MCAT Review instead.
Comment: I hate to say this because I'm currently trying to sell my copy of this book on Amazon, but this book was not very helpful. Like the last review says, it's really just an outline with a few sample questions. Even the sample questions were nothing like what I just took, and the explanations of the answers were too brief to be helpful. There was a lot of BS about preparation and test taking strategies which was all common sense. It really seems like this book was just thrown together to make some money, not to help students. The MCAT Review book, on the other hand, was very helpful. I didn't even look at the sample questions, but I read over the organic chemistry sections the night before the OAT, and the organic part of the OAT was a breeze. I also used it last semester to study for my Chemistry final, which I aced! Obviously since it's not made for the OAT, some parts were irrelevant, but it was worth the buy.
Rating: 1
Summary: You don't need to buy this book
Comment: I am still trying to figure out how the authors of this book managed to include hundreds pages of text with so little review material. If you are buying this book because you want a condensed review of the topics on OAT exam then don't. For all the sections except physics, and quantitative reasoning, it just gives outline and a few sample questions. You can get similar outlines for the sections when you get your OAT application. Some optometry schools also list the topics covered in the exam on their web site. You are much better off just getting out your school books or buying discipline specific review material for all the sections. If this book was the only resource you had to study for the test then you would utterly fail. The physics portion of the book has the most review material, but manages to leave out extremely important equations for linear motion, motion in two directions, torques, etc. Instead it gives cryptic descriptions of these topics which aren't very useful in an exam setting. There are a couple of theory questions on the samples exams I have seen, but most of the questions require you to substitute variables and solve equations. Also, i did the physics section of their sample OAT exam. In no way would that section ever be on the test. I have a BS in engineering and physics is one of my better subjects. I struggled with the section and was not able to finish it in the alloted time. It was very difficult and even required solving a quadratic equation to answer one of the questions. I took the physics portion of the test under timed conditions from sample exams included in the application packet and the Top-score pro software. They were more realistic to questions on a real OAT exam. It is a shame that this book is the only OAT specific book that I know of. For people who have to study for the exam at the last minute don't expect this book to be very helpful.
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Title: OAT : Optometry Admission Test Sample Exams : TopScore Pro for the OAT by ScholarWare.com ISBN: 0967275725 Publisher: ScholarWare Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Opportunities in Eye Care Careers by Kathleen M. Belikoff ISBN: 0844223034 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: MEPC: Optometry: Examination Review by Linda Casser, Freddy W. Chang, Daniel R. Gerstman, P.A. Pietsch, Linda Casser Locke ISBN: 0838574491 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Kaplan MCAT Comprehensive Review with CD-ROM, 7th Edition : 2004 Edition by Kaplan ISBN: 0743241509 Publisher: Kaplan Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Ace's Exambusters Biology Study Cards (Exambusters) by Elizabeth R. Burchard ISBN: 1881374947 Publisher: Ace Academics Inc Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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