Online Education Degree

What a waste of money. This book offers only outlines,no “Content Knowlege” is reviewed whatsoever.
Rating: 1 / 5

I just got back from taking the exam. First of all, I was a double major and have an Economics and Political Science degree. I was an honors student, and consider myself a good test taker. I passed the elem. praxis in the top 10 percentile. I dont know how it is possible to prepare for THIS exam. It was extremely difficult. I spent the past few weeks reviewing EVERYTHING in world history, US history, economics, etc. The guide basically tells you to study everything (which I did), because its such an extensive subject, but when I got to the exam,I realized the questions were so detailed and difficult, that my studying helped very little, and I honestly dont think I passed, and don’t know how anyone could. If you follow this review book, you will realize like some of the others have said, that basically, yes, it tells you to study everything about social studies, because that is what the exam is about. But almost none of the topics they ask you to FOCUS on in this book were on the exam. It is such an extensive subject that without some direction on what to focus on, its impossible to pass. But regardless of how they tell you to narrow it down, but nothing on the exam came close. and none of the practice questions at the end were on the exam, (I dont know why some of the others said there was). I took the practice exam at the end of the book the other day and passed with flying colors. Then I got to the exam today, and my first thought was “What the hell is this??” I will most likely have to take the exam again, but I dont know how I will be able to pass it, if I didnt this time around. Im gonna need help. I know people pass the test all the time, I just dont know how they do it.
Rating: 1 / 5

So, I just want to echo some of the reviews here by saying that this guide is most definitely useful. That being said, it does not provide you with all the information you need to pass the test. The title of the thing is most apt: It’s a study guide…it guides you about what to study. You choose where/how you will study. But it’s nice to have some kind of guideline so that you don’t have to waste your time studying things that won’t be on the test. Still, at only 150 pages including a practice test, this is not a world history, US history, geography, social science, economics or government text, but it will specify, by these categories, the exact areas you need to focus on. Ideally, I’d recommend buying this at least a month before the test, that way you’re guaranteed at least a couple weeks to cover some of the major content areas. I only had a week, and I was scrambling to look everything up that I wanted to learn/refresh. Using this guide in conjunction with some library research (or even wikipedia, which is what I used) is a great way to increase your score. The practice test also gives you a good place to start; it functions as a reliable diagnostic tool that provides instant feedback about the areas that need the most focus for study. Finally, it’s produced by the Praxis people themselves, while this does not make it perfect, it proved very reliable in that I studied nothing that wasn’t worth my time, and, in fact, I can say that I answered at least 30 questions correctly that I would not have were it not for this guide. On a 130 question exam, I can say without a doubt, I wouldn’t have passed were it not for this guide.
Rating: 5 / 5