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 - Crouching Circuit, Hidden HeuristicIn addition to what everyone else said, I add that the book contains a great deal of text that seemed to imply the author was being paid by the word: for example, the section on "clocked circuits", which says "I don't know anything about clocked circuits, so maybe you'll want to skip those questions on the test" -- only in about four times as many words as that. A+++++, would be misinformed by again! Rating: - Horrible Book!I would've given this book a -1 if I could. One of the most poorly written books ever! The most useful part of this book was the "Content Review Section", where the book goes over all the major topics. But even then the author only skimmed over the topics -- not much content review! The practice exam, like the others have said, is absolutely horrible. Tons of mistakes; it had wrong solutions marked, or more than one correct choice. In short, do NOT buy this book! Rating: - This book is an embarassment!I can't believe how bad this book is. There are so many glaring mistakes, it is ridiculous! A lot of the answers that they say are correct are obviously wrong. The author of this book should be ashamed. Buy this book only if you want to perform worse on the GRE exam. Rating: - Don't buy this book!I ordered this book before any of the customer reviews were written, and therefore had no idea that this book would be so bad. The first "useful" page of the book confused me (page xv). I didn't expect glaringly obvious typos on the section "Notation and Conventions", but they were there: the symbol for the floor of a real number is defined as both the floor and the ceiling. Also, supposedly, the notation "A" is used to mean "NOT A". I skipped ahead a few pages to the claimed "Comprehensive" review of all exam topics. Once again, I was disappointed: the discussion was on the probability of each topic on the exam, instead of the topic itself. I decided once again to skip ahead a few pages and take the practice exam, because that was why I bought the book in the first place. Foiled again! The practice exam had errors in every other question. Some questions had missing diagrams; some questions had extra diagrams; some questions had no correct answers at all! But the worst past was that most of the questions in this book are nothing like the questions on the actual exam! I've taken it once before and I'm seeking to improve my score; but reading this book only made me doubt myself even more. Well, no. But it did make me doubt author's competence. I haven't learned anything from reading it, and I don't think anyone else will, either. Avoid at all costs. Beware! Rating: - Horrible Book!I am amazed how a serious publishing company can let such trash go out under its name. This book looks like it was written overnight. There has been absolutely no proofreading or editing whatsover. There are abundant mistakes ranging from simple typographic errors, poor lexical choices, and inadequate sentence structures to conceptual and logical errors, inconsistent questions, missing diagrams, and mismatched answers. In association with Amazon.com | |