Book Description
Because participants in our workshop series, Instruction for All Students, often ask, "Why didn't we learn this in college?" that question provided the inspiration for the title of this new book for teachers new to the classroom. This title is in no way meant to condemn those who direct our collegiate experiences. The realities are that we may well have studied these topics and earned a good grade on a test over the theoretical aspects of this information but had no classroom teaching experiences on which to hook the information, that we took an alternative approach to entering the profession, that our focus was elsewhere at the time or perhaps, in fact, it was not taught. Whatever the case may be, teachers new to the classroom clearly need support and a repertoire of effective teaching strategies during their first years of classroom work.
Why Didn't I Learn This in College? is based on the constructs that:
+ the best management program is a good instructional program,
+ if the end we have in mind is student learning, we do not want to concentrate on control and compliance but rather on building learning centered environments, and
+ we need efficient and effective organizational systems for ourselves, our students, and our classroom.
Customer Reviews:
Very Basic .......2007-05-15
This book did not meet my expectations. The information is extremely basic and is a review of college education courses. Although this book would be helpful, it could very easily be replaced with college texts.
Hidden Gem!.......2006-01-13
I happened to find this book while browsing the teaching section. It has truly been a great resource that every (new) teacher should have. Unlike most of our teacher ed. programs, this book gives practical information about how to run a classroom. You won't regret buying this book, it is a wonderful resource!
A great resource for any teacher!.......2004-09-30
My school district gave every new teacher a copy of this book. The new teacher that I am mentoring shared it with me. After reading through it I was excited to find a book that focuses on instruction instead of some silver-bullet discipline plan. The instructional strategies are written clearly and consisely. Both of us bring our copies of Why Didn't I Learn This in College? and use them as we plan our units and lessons every Monday for the following week. I highly recommend this book to any teacher.
An ESSENTIAL for All Educators!.......2002-09-15
Practical, positive, and pure Paula! WHY DIDN'T I LEARN THIS IS COLLEGE? is an ESSENTIAL professional resource for educators at all levels of experience! Paula Rutherford applies her 30 years of teaching and educational leadership to create this book of research-based teaching tips and user-friendly tools that will help increase student achievement in our classrooms. She offers a logical framework for creating learning-centered environments, planning "with the 'end' in mind", and organizing learners and professional tasks for positive results for students, parents, and teachers.
As a veteran teacher and coach for novice teachers, I use this resource as my NUMBER ONE traveling companion and "virtual" collaborator. Paula's pro-active and positive voice resonates through its pages as my teachers and I use this information to bring all students quality instructional programs and opportunities for maximum learning. Thank you, Paula, for being my constant "ride-along" learning buddy!
THE Best new teacher book ever!.......2002-08-28
As a long time mentor for new teachers, I have read many books for teachers new to the classroom. There are a lot of books out there that focus on everything but teaching. This book is all about helping teachers with great teaching strategies that they can use throughout their entire career. New teachers can try a new strategy every day. I am now buying this book for all of my new teachers!
Book Description
From the creators of the #1 GMAT course... Kaplan's
GMAT Premier Program: 2007 Edition comes complete with a comprehensive review of all the material on the exam, and Kaplan's proven test-taking strategies to help maximize your score. This powerful combination is a highly effective way for you to score higher on the GMAT and make yourself competitive for business school admissions. Plus, we provide additional online features to help you practice with even more GMAT questions. You will score higher. We guarantee it.*
Features:
#1 best-selling GMAT book according to Nielsen BookScan USFREE online features to help you improve your score even more!The latest GMAT information and new practice questions online every month.6 full-length practice GMAT tests—1 in the book, 1 online, 4 on the CD-ROM.Quizzes for Problem-Solving, Critical Reasoning, Data Sufficiency, Reading Comprehension, Sentence Correction, and a new, expanded GMAT Math Reference section.Effective test-taking strategies to help you maximize your score on every section of the test.Mobile prep for your PDA or cell phone.Strategic approaches for every question type, including math, verbal, analytical and writing sections, and tips for mental conditioning.Expert advice on succeeding on the Analytical Writing Assessment and approaching the computerized essay grader.
System Requirements
Windows OnlyWindows 98, 98SE, NT 4.0, 2000, ME, XPPentium 266MHz or higher15MB hard drive space16MB RAM640 × 480 thousands of colors (millions recommended)4x CD-ROM speed or higherSoundcard Note: Internet Connection is required for the web features of the Program.
Customer Reviews:
Good appendices, general overview.......2007-08-26
Got this book a while back and finally got around to working through it as I studied for the GMAT. I found the text easy to read, quick to move through the practice problems and explanations. The book gives a very good overview of the GMAT format, question types and general strategies for answering each type of question. The AWA writing/essay section is fantastic - read the strategies, example essays and tips on how the computer grades your essays, all you need to get a 6.0/6.0 on the writing. The appendix for math (Quantitative) is worth the price of the entire book. Great quick reference while practicing and in the final week before taking the test, to help remind you of the formulas you'll need to memorize for the actual GMAT. BE VERY WARY, though, that even if you answer almost all of the practice questions correctly, you will not get anywhere near an 800 score on the GMAT. The practice tests simply are not hard enough, bottom line. I thought I would breeze through the Quant section seeing as how I answered 96% of the questions correctly on the practice Quant exam. However, I got to the real exam and the most difficult 10-20% of the practice test was the easiest 10-20% of the real test. So I scored 630 overall (78th percentile), mostly due to a low Quant score. So I was pretty disappointed. I bought the Kaplan GMAT 800 (see my separate review there) and it really gives you great practice questions, explanations and the toughest questions. I took the GMAT again 6 weeks later, after having used the other book as my sole study guide and only for a week or so, and scored 750 (98th percentile)!!! I'd still recommend this book or one of the similar guides (everyone seems to like the Official Guide to the GMAT published by the test writers themselves) to get you started, but don't stop there if you're serious about a 700+ score. The only other comment I'll make, is that I used the online companion to take a practice quiz and that was ok - never did the full online practice exam. Didn't use the CD because it won't work on a Mac, and gave me some error on my Windows laptop about not having the right video player so I gave up on the CD. I found the GMAT 800 book far more valuable than either the CD or online companion.
good book.......2007-08-13
Tips given in all sections are very useful. Match appendix is very useful. Got 780 in real exam today. Big draw back is that its tests are not even close to real GMAT. scoring is not similar.
Only Ideal for Anxiety Attacks..........2007-08-13
I purchased this last year with the assumption that the Kaplan name means quality test preparation...boy, I was wrong! For one thing, the sample question sections are terribly skimpy that you can fly through them in no time. The only "content" worth looking at are the math review concepts. Nothing else is useful. As for the CD, not terribly user-friendly but comes with a passable amount of sample sections. Of course, that brings us to the best part of this 'product'...that it serves to crack all your self-confidence. The questions are unrealistic and the concepts behind many of them in no way related to anything on the GMAT. Actually kept me from signing up for the GMAT because of my poor scores. Do yourself a favor and get the official GMAT guide - tons of sample questions that are a realistic idea of the GMAT and won't kill your confidence...I really regret buying this book...
You get what you need.......2007-07-22
This review is being useful and make study a lot easier. Let's see how will be my grades.
Don't waste your money.......2007-06-13
This book is by far the worst I've ever seen in terms of editing. The book is filled with paragraph duplications and missing information. With errors like these, how can they expect you to trust their advice on how to achieve a good score?!
The sample questions are confusing, and the answer explainations left me scratching my head even more. They're vague at best, and sometimes down-right WRONG!
This book is a real confidence buster. It really freaked me out to see how poorly I did on the sample tests. I know I'm not half the idiot they made me out to be!
What a waste of time and money! I don't recommend this book to anyone. The Princeton Review book and the Official GMAT study book are by far superior to this one.
Book Description
Cracking the GMAT now offers MAJOR new features on DVD, including engaging video tutorials from The Princeton Review’s top instructors. We also bring you over 200 practice questions in the book and exclusive free access to 4 practice exams and expert advice online.
Of course, you’ll also get all the test-prep techniques you expect from The Princeton Review. In Cracking the GMAT, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and
·Solve complex sentence correction problems by recognizing key errors
·Crack tough data sufficiency questions using simple techniques
·Practice online with full-length tests, lessons, and drills
·Get the most out of your prep time with the study plan that’s right for you
We give you plenty of practice problems to help you master our proven techniques. Our practice questions are just like those you’ll see on the real GMAT—but with detailed answers and explanations for every question.
Customer Reviews:
Good Effort on Cracking the GMAT by Princeton Review.......2007-08-03
This book helped me a lot in my preparation for the GMAT. It gives really good examples of using things like process of elimination, pacing during the test, and GMAT tendencies to help improve your score. This book covers each section of the GMAT in great detail and has a good number of practice questions of varying difficulty. The online practice tests are useful but the scoring seems to be a little off (I scored 30 to 50 points higher on the Offical GMAT practice tests and on the actual test). I would buy this book as the "how to take the GMAT" guide and the Official Guide for GMAT Review for actual tests questions from past versions of the GMAT. As mentioned in another review the DVD is pretty worthless. If you want to watch it I would suggest watching it first just to get an overview of the test and then delve into the book. Here are some of my tips for the GMAT: 1) Find out if the school of your choice uses the scores for the writing assessment. The one I hope to attend does not which allowed me more time to prepare for the other sections and cut my test time by an hour. 2) Finish the test... from the practice tests I learned that not finishing will cost you big time. Even if you have to guess on some questions you will come out better by finishing the test compared to getting a few more problems right but not finishing. 3) Take your practice test at a location away from home (library, coffee shop, etc.)... this will get you prepared for taking the test in a different environment. 4) Time yourself on practice questions to get a feel for how long you can spend on a problem. Cracking the GMAT has a good section on pacing which will give you a game plan going into the test. Good Luck!
THE RIGHT STEP TO START .......2007-07-04
This book guide you from point A to point B, but not for all. It is the right step to prepare yourself. There are so many of the same, but be careful to pick the one best for you.
I passed using this.......2007-06-23
I had only a few months to study and not every day and I only used this book (and the free practice test that the Gmac mails out) and I got a 500 on the test. It was harder than the SAT but the advice on the video w/ the book and the practice tests ( I recommend that one focus on the tests above all) and you can do well. I did not study as much as I could have
Better than nothing.......2007-06-08
I found the questions to be a bit rudimentary. The classes might help. but you're probably better off with Kaplan, etc. classes and mentoring.
Test Prep material is good. Tests are below average.......2007-06-05
This book is good to refresh your concepts and to browse over quickly what you probably forgot since high school, but thats about it. The tests are totally way off the actual GMAT.
Especially the Math section on the online tests is too simple, and the actual GMAT questions are a few notches higher.
All in all, not worth buying. You could probably get one from a library to use. I'd recommend Kaplan to this one.
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, Educational Administration: A Problem-Based Approach shares with readers the very latest thinking in the field and relates it to significant real-life problems of practice.
Reflecting on current changes and thinking in educational administration, this book includes updated expert analysis pieces by noted authorities in every chapter. The book uses a problem-based approach and provides readers with opportunities to analyze and apply their knowledge to authentic situations. . It emphasizes a number of important challenges such as the increasing diversity in our schools and society and the impact of reforms and technology on learning environments.
For those involved in educational administration.
Book Description
GMAT 800 offers high-achieving students the toughest practice questions, hardest concepts, and strongest strategies to help them prepare for the GMAT. The guide includes:
Hundreds of the toughest practice questions with strategic explanationsTips for getting the questions right on test dayFocused guidelines for tackling each question typeProven strategies for getting a perfect scoreSpecial step-by-step methods for special question types
Customer Reviews:
Very Helpful.......2007-10-15
I think that this book is very helpful with the GMAT preparation. If what you really need is a reminder of the mathematical and verbal concepts needed (which you studied in high school), and ofcourse, the type of questions you can expect on the GMAT, then this is the book for you.
good stuff.......2007-10-08
a little tougher than the actual test, my exercise is much lower than my real score, good for your brain and mind expedition....
Excellent Advanced GMAT Preparation material........2007-09-24
If you want a serious preparation, this book is the best in the market. I suggest you buy the Kaplan premier program first, do the practice tests and then feel the need for some advanced material and then look out for this one.
The key is, after going through the initial preparation material say, Kaplan's Premier program for around 2/3 weeks, you will feel that something more is required to take you towards the advanced stage that can give you a boost, an edge, some extra climb in the GMAT score. Then comes this book. It requires 2 weeks of rigorous preparation time. The verbal section of this book (more so for Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction) is simply superb.
However, do not forget that the last 2 weeks of your preparation should be solely focussed with the OG and other OG supplements (e.g. Verbal OG etc).
If I would not have had this book, my score would have been 20-40 points lower than my actual 700.
Fantastic practice and tips.......2007-08-26
I first bought the regular Kaplan GMAT 2007 study guide and it helped me get a general overview of the GMAT questions, format, and some basic practice. But I found that it lacked the most difficult questions (especially in the Quantitative section), and although I got 96% of those right on the practice exams they were far easier than the ones I faced on the real GMAT. So I ended up with a 630 (78th percentile) and was disappointed. I then went out and bought this GMAT 800 book for more practice and "the toughest questions," and found it really very useful. It does away with the lengthy text about strategies and gets down to the questions themselves, focusing on different types of tricky questions that the GMAT test makers love to pose. I suppose it worked, since I just took the GMAT again (about 6 weeks later, having only used this book to study for about a week) and scored 750 (98th percentile)!! I highly recommend this, although you need to at least skim through the other one (or a similar guide) first to get the hang of the GMAT format and different question types before using this book.
Useful supplement to official GMAT guides.......2007-08-11
Now that the GMAT has issued a revised 11th edition of the Official Guide for GMAT Review, plus new supplementary official guides for both the verbal and quantitative sections of the test, the case for spending additional hard-earned money and scarce study time on the Kaplan review prep book is not as strong as it used to be. On the other hand, a case can be made. While the questions in the official GMAT books have the advantage of being actual test questions rather than Kaplan attempts to emulate the well vetted questions written by ETS (and recently Pearson Vue), most of the official guides' questions have already appeared in the 10th edition of the official GMAT guide, which means that if you have the previous edition, you won't get much additional questions by buying the newer official GMAT books. Although the new GMAT books offer what the publisher calls "improved" explanations, many of the explanations for the reading passages and analytic reasoning sections are still useless and circular -- like answer D is correct because answer D is, uhm, correct. (I find the math explanations to be adequate, however.) In addition, because the computer administered test is adaptive, offering harder questions as you continue to get right answers, the Official Guide GMAT book questions won't be representative of the actual mix you will get when you actually take the test, particularly if you are likely to be a high scorer, in which case the hardest 20% in the GMAT book will be more likely to represent the actual questions you will be answering.
Kaplan, on the other hand, makes more of an attempt to offer insightful explanations to test questions, even if their answers are at times deficient. Kaplan also offers advice on test strategy with regard to timing, using process of elimination, and ways of coping with particularly difficult questions or reading passages, which GMAT seems to be reluctant to do. In other words, the Kaplan approach is more like true coaching, as opposed to offering just a bunch of practice test questions. In summary, I would say that this is a useful addition to the preparation arsenal, although the main focus should still be on the official GMAT preparation materials.
Book Description
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.
Customer Reviews:
Plato, Socrates...and Woody Allen?.......2007-10-18
The Closing of the American Mind is a powerful, formidably intelligent book that sweeps across the state of humanities in modern education. It is marred, in places, however, by the author's prejudices and blind spots.
Bellow, great ally and friend of Bloom's at the University of Chicago kicks off with the intro, a rallying cry for the noble old humanities subjects, the 'submerged Atlantis' of a great books education. The value of such an education is to cultivate the higher mental life. Of course, Bellow was obsessed by this notion throughout his writing life. This culminated in the masterful 'Herzog', the story of a man who has nurtured the higher philosophical questions to an extreme yet has no clue how to master or even cope with the practicalities of modern life and is bankrupt and broken by the end.
Bloom himself was a formidable scholar, the inspiration for the character of Ravelstein in Bellow's final novel. A larger than life intellect, he was firmly of the view that reading Plato and Shakespeare is the most valuable thing you can do with your life. Far more useful and noble than studying MBAs, or how to reform the health service, or the natural sciences. No, the real ultimate education is philosophy - freewheeling, old style philosophy from Socrates, through Plato, through Aristotle and on to the Renaissance - Locke, Rousseau: the enlightenment, and modern democracy. Do students today appreciate all this? The hell they do! Modern life is a cultural desert, based on the notorious 'reforms' of the 60s when liberalization of university life destroyed much of what was good about education and turned it into a flaccid grab bag where you studied subjects that could be harnessed to useful ends, plus the odd paper that took your fancy.
Bloom's analysis is much deeper than this however and some of his specific diatribes are amongst the most powerful and funny parts of the book. Take music - rock music is all noise, not a patch on the noble constructions of Beethoven. Love - pah! The youth of today have no idea how to love, they haven't the chops for it, all they do is mope around whining about 'commitment' and 'relationships'. Actually, Bloom says very sound things about these 'lifestyles', not human lives worthy of the name. But his diagnosis is bizarre. He seems to think Woody Allen is responsible for a lot of this with his films just variations on what it is like to have no self (Zelig the worst culprit). C'mon Allan - surely you can see that the other Allen is fundamentally a humourist, not a philosopher, as he has reluctantly acknowledged himself. If you think Woody Allen is indicative of all that is wrong with modern life you have a pretty skewed view of things.
Still, delve deeply into this book, give it your concerted attention for a few weeks, and it will burrow deep into your marrow. Certainly Bloom makes a powerful case for reigniting the flame of philosophy in the Socratic sense in American Universities so students can discover the highest friendship and shared great moments, debating the ultimate questions through deep reading of the great philosophers that will last their whole lives.
I studied philosophy and politics myself at university, and it is true that the books that stuck with me the most were the great texts. The deep humanistic education that is vital to the cultivation of the soul, and the asking of that ultimate and most fundamental of questions - what is life for?
How many people these days would give you the glib answer of: '42'? And that is Bloom's point.
The value of a liberal education........2007-07-08
"Men may live more truly and fully in reading Plato and Shakespeare than at any other time, because they are participating in essential being and are forgetting their accidental lives. The fact that this kind of humanity exists or existed, and that we can somehow still touch it with the tips of our outstretched fingers, makes our imperfect humanity, which we can no longer bear, tolerable. The books in their objective beauty are still there, and we must help protect and cultivate the delicate tendrils reaching out toward them through the unfriendly soil of students' souls. Human nature, it seems, remains the same in our altered circumstances because we still face the same problems, if in different guises, and have the distinctively human need to solve them, even though our awareness and forces have become enfeebled" (p. 380).
Allan Bloom (1930-1992) was a professor of philosophy and political science at the University of Chicago, and the subject of Saul Bellow's final novel, Ravelstein (2000). In his bestselling book, The Closing of the American Mind (1987), Professor Bloom draws from his training as a philosophical thinker and his long career as a teacher to describe "how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students."
Summarizing Bloom's book in a short review is no easy task. He believes in "the good old Great Books approach" to education, and observes how students, in a culture of movies and rock music, have "lost the practice of and the taste for reading." He not only believes the high incidence of divorce has left students less critical in their thinking, but argues their lax sexual mores deprive students of what Plato described as the "erotic" element in education--the element of excitement, mystery, and longing inherent to a liberal education. Bloom believes the "openness" of cultural relativism--the practice of valuing the opinion of each person equally--undermines critical thinking with indifference, devalues the study of languages, philosophy, and science, and deprives students from searching for the truth that leads to a higher life. In his book, Bloom is concerned with nothing less than "the state of our souls."
Professor Bloom's argument is carefully reasoned, and reveals a great mind at work. The Closing of the American Mind is truly profound. Although it was published twenty years ago, it remains relevant nonetheless and should be considered essential reading in understanding the value of a liberal education in our society.
G. Merritt
Necessary Questions.......2007-05-22
This was the most difficult fun and knowledge seeking free time reading I have done in years. At times Dr. Bloom was speaking to me, freely articulating my own disappointment with the academy. His comments about the free fall of traditional inquiry and the current status of the social sciences and humanities was piercing. Since I was born in the 50s, the transformations he spoke of that became so apparent to him in the 80s were experienced in the public school and university careers of those of us born in the first decade or so after WWII.
In spite of the delight in reading Dr. Bloom's astute observations of those years, in no time, the next pages would lose and confuse me, forcing a re-read and consultation of other sources. Ironically, this exemplified the point he was making since those areas had to do with philosophy. (Plato is next.) Nonetheless, this is a marvelous work of incredible intellectual depth by a very scholarly man who was aware, and somewhat saddened, by the trends of his times.
The book is long, requires real dedication, but in my opinion it was well worth the read. The first two thirds of the book seem as if they are not related to one another, but then, by the last part, especially the chapter The Sixties, all the detail about the German School, Marcuse, Plato, converge. Although the 60s seemed groundbreaking and exciting to the youth of its time (including me), Bloom ventures to state, quite convincingly, that it was void of intellectual gravitas due a highly stylized, yet simplistic view of its philosophical and historical context.
Dr. Bloom also greatly delves into the role of the university and his founded fears of the compromise of the special status of inquiry in the academy being wedded to popular culture and politics. He repeatedly asserts that there's a lack of support, in his experience even among some professors, to uphold the bigger questions of existence, philosophy, religion, science, culture - what have you - that transcend popular culture and politics.
On the topic of politics, one might be tempted to state that Dr. Bloom took sides, and that his opus has left-right implications. It may have appeared a bit critical of what is commonly thought of as the left, but the notion of being "progressive", of throwing off tradition, of being less discriminate about what is good or evil, ugly or beautiful, right or wrong, tends to be the territory of the modern left. I never felt he was simply being opinionated, but that he just attributed his assessment of the late 20th century academia to certain movements and philosophies that permeated many areas of the university. Dr. Bloom greatly laments what the university has become because he clearly loved the institution and believed it was indispensable to the knowledge and mysteries of mankind.
See Evan Sayet's analysis..........2007-05-19
Evan says that Prof Bloom's book influenced him, but Evan has expanded on the reasons why Modern Liberals act like they do.
I recommend everyone watch Evan's talk.
You can find it at YouTube by searching on "Evan Sayet". Choose "How Modern Liberals Think". It's phenomenal.
Nice Intro..........2007-04-24
The best part about this book was the intro. In fact all you need to understand what the late Mr. Bloom was trying to put forth is in the introduction.
The rest of the book is a chore to read. The confusing and tedious writing style leads to a lot of re-reading of sentences to figure out the point the author is trying to make. Someone should have counseled Mr. Bloom that "Brevity is the soul of wit."
Book Description
Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when these conditions are present. Based on the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, this book provides concrete examples from twenty institutions that other colleges and universities can learn from and adapt to help create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment.
Book Description
Cracking the GMAT brings you proven techniques from the test prep experts! The 2007 edition includes over 200 practice questions and exclusive free access to practice exams and further review online. In Cracking the GMAT, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and
·Solve complex sentence correction problems by recognizing key errors
·Crack tough data sufficiency questions using simple techniques
·Practice online with full-length tests, lessons, and drills
·Get the most out of your prep time with the study plan that’s right for you
We give you plenty of practice problems to help you master our proven techniques. In addition, you can access 2 full-length GMAT practice tests online. Our practice questions are just like those you’ll see on the real GMAT—but with detailed answers and explanations for every question.
Customer Reviews:
2 books is all you need: Princeton Review and The Official Guide.......2007-07-04
You DO NOT need the version with the DVD. Save the money and either use it for lunch or buy a set of practice tests from the mba.com website. At least they are official.
Now on to the review...
I've tried The Official Guide, Arco, Kaplan and Princeton Review books. After taking the test the first time using only the Kaplan and Arco guides I was not happy with my score, nor the review material in either book. I then purchased and used the Princeton Guide and the Official Guide (big orange one). An important point concerning me was that it helped raise my score by 90 points to where I needed it to be. More importantly, for this review, is to let you know that the tips, practice tests, questions and hints on how to prepare and take the exam were top notch in the Princeton Guide. Using the Princeton Guide as your strategy and the Official Guide for the practice questions is the best way to raise your score. The diagnostic test in the Official Guide helps and the warm up tests in the Princeton Review both help give you a feel for what type of questions you'll need to practice most. Use the 2 online practice tests from Princeton Review after you buy the book also since the Official Guide only comes with questions in the book, no CAT.
My advice:
1) Read the information about the test and thoroughly understand the time limits per question to finish on time
2) Take the warm up test and the diagnostic test to determine your strong and weak points
3) Go through the Princeton Review, every section to learn strategies
4) Go through the Official Guide and answer the first 20, middle 20 and last 20 of each section to get a feel for what level of difficulty you are consistently scoring well at
5) Then take a practice exam and time it
6) Go back and answer the next 20/20/20 from the Official Guide
7) Then take the other practice exam
8) Then just finish as many questions in the Official Guide as you have time for
I would recommend at least 1 month preparation and if you don't score as good the first time, take it the very next month after studying the addional weeks.
The best things are having a very good feel for timing (practice timed tests) and do as many practice problems from the Official Guide as you can. Finish the book if possible. I did about 75% of all the questions in each section. I answered like 30 questions almost each night for a month until I was sick of GMAT type questions but well aware and familiar with all the questions types.
So 2 books: Official Guide and Princeton Review and you are off to the score you'll need. Practice and endurance. And drink a red bull 30 min before the test.
Great tips.......2007-05-31
This book has some great tips on how to answer questions. Thought the strategies were stronger in math than verbal. Hints for AWA were great, like make the essay as long as possible. You definitely need to suppliment with the official book and a computer practice test, but this book will give you some great strategies - I got a 780 and 6.0 on AWA!
good info.......2007-05-17
This book was a great place to start. Is eases you into prepping for the GMAT. The math review was great. And I liked the strategy for the essays. It also has a good amount of practice questions. Most of the questions are pretty hard, even the "Bin 1" questions. I scored a 600 with the aid of this book and the big orange GMAT book
I Owe The Bulk of My Score to This Guide.......2007-05-13
The state B-school I was looking into last year required a 400 score on the GMAT, but when I started taking practice exams online, I realized I wasn't quite ready to take the test. My scores were in the 400 range, but I was afraid that I would choke on the actual test. That's when I started looking for a good test prep guide.
I chose The Princeton Review based mainly on online reviews like this. It didn't hurt that this guid was one of the cheapest I found either. Though it didn't come with a CD or DVD-ROM, I found that the material covered in the book was more than adequate. In fact, this guide was the only book I purchased.
I spent weeks reading and re-reading the study sections, and I found that the practice questions in the back of the book were very representative of what I saw on the actual test (I worked every one in the week leading up to my appointment). I took the official GMAT practice test using the program downloaded from the mba.com website and was scored at 620. But when I actually went to take the test, I came out with a 710. I actually did go against the advice in the book and spent way too much time on one of the math problems, which put me in a lurch. If I'd listened to the advice to guess and move on instead of wasting time trying to figure one problem out, I may have raised my score even more.
Thanks to this study guide, I now have options I never dreamed of before. Second tier schools that seemed like a pipe-dream are sending me letters of recruitment
If you're looking into B-school, do yourself a favor and buy this book. It's the best investment you'll make going into the GMAT.
Please Do Not Waste Your Money!.......2007-04-16
I used the Princeton Review book and the Official Guide to GMAT review. The Princeton Review book's math problems are not only easier than the real GMAT, but also, in the verbal section, their passages are about 75% shorter than the real passages on the actual test! In all, you will feel as if you are doing great, when you really are not. The PR basically gives a cheap version of "short cuts," which are not very applicable. If you need a thorough review, stick with the real deal, the Official Guide!
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I've read countless books on teaching strategies over the years, and I can't think of one that compares--in depth, breadth, accessibility, and practicality--to this one. Tools for Teaching has much to say to teachers of all ranks, disciplines, and institutions.
--Mary Deane Sorcinelli, director, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A rich compendium of classroom-tested strategies and suggestions designed to improve the teaching practice of beginning, midcareer, and senior faculty members. Forty-nine teaching tools cover both traditional tasks--writing a course syllabus, delivering a lecture--and newer, broader concerns, such as responding to diversity and using technology.
Customer Reviews:
A shortcut for an effective teaching.......2007-02-22
This book is a juice of tens of teaching books that will help teachers to improve their way of teaching, get the message across and interact effectively with their students.
A book with lots of practical tidbits.......2006-03-01
This seems to be a good book for begining college instructors looking for the classroom basics plus some ideas on how to modify some basic formulas to make it a bit more interesting. It manages to keep from getting too bogged down with details about specific strategies. Unfortunately, this is also it's weakness, as I did not find support readily available when I wished to know more about a specific strategy. Worth having as a basic reference.
OK for teaching children - Not for teaching adults.......2004-02-20
This book is written with the assumption that you will be teaching young people in college or below(pedagogy). It is great for that. If you want to get it to learn techniques for teaching adults in the workplace(andragogy), look for another book.
Timeless Teaching Tools.......2003-09-04
Regardless of the year in which this book was released, rest assured in knowing that it does provide VERY useful and timeless teaching techniques. I appreciate Dr. Gross Davis' efforts a great deal. May God bless you greatly, Dr. Gross Davis!!! This book IS a great starting point towards the quest for professional growth and development.
Good, but outdated.......2003-05-16
I find myself ambivalent about this book. I have been teaching University students since 1982 and was hoping for new tricks and techniques that might help me to continue improving. This book is a compilation of such tricks and techniques that might prove useful to a new Assistant Professor. However, the book was originally written in 1993 and has few references more recent than 1992. I'm not sure how many faculty need to know how to use the three-layer blackboards that used to be standard fixtures at the front of giant lecture halls. The description of multimedia uses Hypercard as the example of what's state-of-the-art. The few references to Internet resources have BITNET addresses. Much has changed in the classroom since 1992, but the new teacher won't learn about it from this source. Although this book would be helpful for teachers in the undergraduate classroom, I feel that they will also find it frustrating.
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Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus is a unique and essential guide to the start of a successful academic career. As its title suggests (nothing in excess), it advocates moderation in ways of working, based on the single-most reliable difference between new faculty who thrive and those who struggle.
By following its practical, easy-to-use rules, novice faculty can learn to teach with the highest levels of student approval, involvement, and comprehension, with only modest preparation times and a greater reliance on spontaneity and student participation. Similarly, new faculty can use its rule-based practices to write with ease, increasing productivity, creativity, and publishability through brief, daily sessions of focused and relaxed work. And they can socialize more successfully by learning about often-misunderstood aspects of academic culture, including mentoring. Each rule in Advice for New Faculty Members has been tested on hundreds of new faculty and proven effective over the long run -- even in attaining permanent appointment. It is the first guidebook to move beyond anecdotes and surmises for its directives, based on the author's extensive experience and solid research in the areas of staff and faculty development.
For new teachers.
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Fire the proofreaders?.......2007-09-05
Although I have not yet read the text, the egregious misspelling of the Latin title, which evidently escaped both the author and everyone who proofread the text prior to publication, is not a good advertisement--at least not for anyone who knows even elementary Latin. The correct spelling of the title should be "Nihil NimIs". If I do in fact decide to read the book (I am hardly a "new" faculty member), perhaps I'll be inclined to write a more favorable review of its contents. Meanwhile, let's hope that a new printing will correct the spelling error.
Essential.......2007-09-03
I credit this book for allowing me to get anything besides teaching done my first year on the job. I often tell people that it is the most boring book I have ever read, but also the most useful.
As mentioned in earlier reviews, "start before you're ready" and "stop before you're ready" help get rid of the psychological blocks in starting new tasks. Like others, I had also thought it was best to do work in large chunks of time, but after a year of the Boice method, I am a believer in brief daily sessions.
Other priceless pieces of advice are to do research (or whatever is most daunting) first thing in the morning, to focus on organization and big picture ideas rather than flooding with details, and to let others do the work for you. This last, especially, has helped my teaching-- giving the students autonomy decreases my workload and increases their interest and depth of understanding.
This book makes great bathroom reading. I suspect that it is boring and repetitive on purpose-- Boice is forcing us to read the book in moderation, just as he recommends we do our work.
Best guide for new faculty.......2007-08-24
As a first year Assistant Professor, I felt simultaneous joy and dread about my new job. Incredible freedom, a significant amount of pressure, and uncertainty about the best day-by-day approach for acquiring tenure all combined to leave me feeling like a person running through an unfamiliar burning museum in the middle of the night. Boice's book provided the structure for my precious hours at a time when the sheer number of possibilities was overwhelming. In fact, the goal of the book is to provide methods for getting more done on a regular basis.
Before reading Boice's book, a normal day would see me working 6-10 hours on a single task such as class preparation, research, or writing. By the end of the day I may have made progress, but not as much progress as one would expect, and I would often end the day feeling that I was slipping behind in my schedule for all of my other tasks. Having read the book, I now structure my day with several Brief Regular Sessions, making short progress in many if not all of my projects each day. All of my projects stay fresh in my mind and I find that my subconscious often provides insights between sessions. I find that now I make faster, higher quality progress and have a bright outlook on all of my projects...and thus on my potential for tenure.
Boice also stresses starting projects before one feels ready, then stopping before one feels finished, both techniques that I find make new projects easy to start and then continue. Preparing a new class seemed daunting, but doing just 5-15 minutes of preparation is easy and that time added up until I was no longer daunted.
The book is structured into teaching, research, and service, but all three of the sections use similar techniques for similar benefit. I found the research section the most engaging and useful and wish it had been the first section, though I do plan on re-reading the book as time permits. Unfortunately, the book can be a difficult read; it repeats concepts, moves slowly, and can be dry at times. As such it is perfect for occasional reading and I have had great success at reading one page per day (note the brief regular sessions).
I vigorously recommend this book for any new professor or graduate student planning to get a tenure track job. In addition, Boice provides 10 pages of references to back up his research and claims in the book if further reading is desired.
Very helpful to this first year faculty member.......2007-08-07
I read this book in the fall of 2005 when I was a first time college professor. It was very helpful. I really appreciated the book What the Best College Teachers Do but it was a bit overwhelming. How can I be the best college teacher when I am a brand new one? But Boice's book was very practical and straightforward. If you are struggling as a new faculty member under the burden of grading and preparing lectures, this is the book for you. You will be comforted that you are not alone and you will be given lots of fresh ideas to help you out of the mire.
Robert Boice IS the Real Deal.......2006-12-19
Research-based advice as meticulous as *Advice for New Faculty Members* is repetitive by genre. Boice is incredibly useful and, for non-tenured academics, terrifically reassuring.
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