This book had an insane number of errors, including incorrect formulae, incomplete questions and inconsistent answers. Not only that, but the "Practice Tests" were not anything like a true sample MCAT would be. Many questions tested irrelevant detail that would never be tested in this form on a real MCAT (e.g. "A midsagittal section will divide the body into: A. equal superior and inferior portions. B. equal lateral portions. C. equal anterior and posterior portions. D. unequal lateral portions.") Some of the Verbal Reasoning passages were on science topics--the true MCAT would never have science topics in that section. And even the writing prompts for the Writing Sample section are wrong! This book was a total waste of my money.

I found this book to be quite useless. It was poorly written and filled with editorial errors. Furthermore, the supposed "sample MCATs" did not at all resemble the actual test. Oftentimes, the science passages in the book were little more than a paragraph. In addition, the book stressed unimportant trivia while overlooking vital concepts.

the book doesn't even have organic chem questions! so biological sciences were just biology!!! and obscure biology w/ alot of terminology that you'll never need for the mcat! the science passages are far from the real mcat...everything is too easy!

I found that this book was helpful on a few minor levels. However, the first thing I realized while studying from this book was that the Site Design protion of the Site Planning exam was missing the building square footage information - I had to look at the answer in order to find the correct building size. On the exam - the buildings for this division are already created for you as 'blocks'. The other thing I noticed was that the Schematic Design mock vinette of the Building Design exam was answered improperly - or at least did not follow the guidelines set by the program. The diagram showed that the Chapel and the Robing room are to be directly connected - the solution showed a serparation by a corridor. On the exam - if two spaces are to be directly connected - then they must be shown directly connected on the solution. I found that this book was not really helpful in studying for the exam because the difficulty of the questions posed in this book were much easier than that of the real exam. On the other hand, Ballast's other two books for the Non-Structures and Structures portions of the exam are helpful - but this guide falls short of the mark and makes preparation for the exam less effective.

I do not understand how the editor or author determined the tag line for this book, but nothing could be further from the truth. The tag line states: "The Project Management Guide to Planning and Implemeneting System Installations, Conversions and Mergers." There is nothing about project management in the book nor conversions nor implementations. It was written at about the time the first PMBOK was published and uses no PMBOK definitions.

Here is the table of contents.
1 - The Status of the Financial Services Industry
2 - building a Winning Strategy
3 - Establishing a Good Business Foundation
4 - Maximizing Noninterest Income
5 - Enhancing Asset Quality
6 - Optimizing Capital
7 - Marketing financial Services
8 - Managing Finacial Risk
9 - Controlling Costs
10 - Putting it all Together
11 - Critical Path Analysis
12 - Strategic Alignment
13 - Business Process Reengineering
14 - Looking beyond branch automation
15 - Productivity (squared) and Power in a changin bank
16 - Employee Enhancement as a competitive Differentiator
17 - Making a Merger Work

The chapter on Critical Path defines 'critical paths' as 'each of the critical factorys has a logical relationship the the others, and those relationshipas are direct, not funneld through some control point.' As you can see, its not the longest path through a schedule network.

The chapter on mergers, the last chapter in the book, is merely a discussion of the high level characteristics of a good merger candidate. Nothing about how to actually do it and certainly no 'Project Mangement Guide' as promised by the tag line.

This book provides no value to the financial sector project manager.

This book presents too much information that is just incorrect. Too much effort is expended in building a model ship, to have the results be noticably incorrect. Many of the examples he uses are completely unworkable on a real ship and look rediculous to anyone with just a passing knowledge of sailing ships and/or naval architecture. There are much better texts available.

The Jossey-Bass series has a good reputation, as does Kent Dove. But this book is a huge disappointment. It is billed as an indispensable aid for practitioners and a textbook for students, but it serves neither set of readers well. Practitioners looking for solid advice and good examples to illustrate principles in action find nothing of the sort. And pity the poor student who has to slog through this to pass a course. This is an uninspiring, tendentious, tedious exercise in making the elegantly simple art of fundraising appear to be some arcane mystery that only the likes of a long-time practitioner like Kent Dove can master.

Most people are intimidated enough about asking for money, they don't need to be scared/shamed out of the field by reading this kind of mumbo jumbo that makes them feel stupid or inadequate.

The book has a few good tables and nuggets of useful information, but not enough to justify a [money] price tag. I'm glad I borrowed this from the library to preview it before buying -- it saved me the effort of returning it.

This book shows why companies hire technical writers to organize and review the author's ideas and concepts. It's obvious that Kent has thorough knowledge of FrontPage, but his thoughts are sporadic, and he is unable to write his ideas in a clear and intelligent manner. Everything you need to know is in this book, but finding it and understanding Kent's ramblings are another matter.

This book is garbage. The typos in the problem section are frustrating (check out the free body diagram answers for chapter 4) and the material is poorly presented. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

This book does not come with the microfilmed information and is practicly useless without access to the microfilm.

This is nothing more than the measurement of political leaders' voice record to measure stress. Then taking those numbers and mixing them around with a little calculus with the result: no relevent knowlege for policymakers. Aristotle would laugh at what we call the study of political science.

The book is advertised as "100% comprehensive", as THE Outlook bible. I don't think this is justified. There is no advice on how to write COM add-ins or automation code in C++, though this is rather common for professional applications. The author doesn't mention it at all. I can't judge if the book is a good VBA reference, but is certainly not a comprehensive approach to Outlook.