Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Research & Education Association; Book & CD-ROM edition (1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0878912215
ISBN-13: 978-0878912216
Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #426,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #73 in Books > Education & Teaching > Higher & Continuing Education > Test Preparation > CLEP #860 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Foreign Languages > Spanish #1335 in Books > Education & Teaching > Test Preparation > College & High School
I used this book and passed my spanish CLEP exam, so I can't complain too much. I agree closely with the reviewer who said "Fair But Full of Errors." The most useful part of the book are the practice tests and the quizzes for different grammar review areas. It was easy and quick to run through all the review sections and do all the review problems in between taking the practice tests. My practice test scores went up a little (but not a lot) after going through all the review material. The scoring of the practice tests seemed a bit strange to me--you could loose 30 of 130 points and still get a "perfect" 80, which doesn't seem realistic to me (and my actual test score was lower than my practice test scores). It was frustrating, however, to find quite blatant errors in the book and really misleading or poorly worded explanations. Of course this is written as review for people who should already know spanish, but nonetheless, quite a few times it had me shaking my head in confusion or anger, only to look it up in a normal spanish book and find it clearly and simply explained.For example, one practice question went something like: "El ladron fue (muerto/matado) por el policía." After having paragraphs of useless information explaining all the other questions whose answers were obvious, the answer key only says something like: "The correct answer is "muerto" because muerto is the past participle for matar in the passive." Confused, I looked up matar and morir in every dictionary that I have, and it's always matar-matado, morir-muerto. What gives?
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