Review Guide For LPN/LVN Pre-Entrance Exam Paperback – September 12, 2008 Author: NATL LEAGUE NURSING | Language: English | ISBN:
0763762709 | Format: PDF, EPUB
Review Guide For LPN/LVN Pre-Entrance Exam – September 12, 2008
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- Series: Review Guide for LPN/LVN Pre-Entrance Exam
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 3 edition (September 12, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0763762709
- ISBN-13: 978-0763762704
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
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This book has 3 things it covers, reading comprehension, math and science.
I would rate the math and science as 5 star and reading comprehension at 4 or so.
It has lots of practice questions. I think 4 tests on just math, 4 on just science and 4 on reading then the 3 complete practice tests that cover everything in the book.
The math covers about anything you can think of and explains how to do it also. Fractions, decimals, some geometry and algebra etc..
The science is also nice, a lot of facts on biology, chemistry and physics. Probably everything you need to know to get into the lpn course.
Reading comprehension is ok, but no explanations on why the answer they have is the right one. It is up to you to figure it out when some questions seem to have more than one answer.
It also has a good bit of verbal ability questions mixed in with the reading comprehension part, for example something like:
'They had an impromptu meeting today. Impromptu means' and then gives 4 multiple choice answers.
I only gave it 4 stars because from what I hear, there are things on the entrance exam thats not covered at all by the book.
There is no section for spelling which is on the test. It would be nice if it had a section for frequently misspelled words such as:
accomplish or acommplish, satelite or satellite, acomodations, accomodations etc...
It was written supposedly by the national league of nurses so they shoud have an idea of the words that will be on the tests. At least some of them.
Also nothing at all about the pattern recognition section of the test (what comes next in this series) type questions. Not even a mention.
I have seen several times, on other various book reviews, people calling for editors to pay closer attention to the work of their writters. This book is no exception. I have not scrutinized the book but I have read through the entire thing and taken the first test in each section. I am now in my second read so I can improve my understanding of the science section. Thus far I have noted two mistakes. (I will update should I notice more in the future.) First, on the first quiz for Mathematics, question number 22 is 8 3/4 - 5 5/12 the correct answer is for when you add these to fractions. The problem is rewritten in the answer section. Second, while rereading the section on Chemistry the explanation for how to find the number of neutrons in an atom is miswrote. (Basic Chemistry: Chapter One, Final Line) Therefore, the mass number of carbon, or the sum of the number of protons and ELECTRONS, is 12, and the number of neutrons in carbon is 6 (12-6)
In all honesty, this confused me the first time I read the section so I just skipped over it. Poor choice, since my worse part in science is chemistry. Reading it thoroughly this second time helped me realize the confusion. I suspect there will be more "typos" as I reread these sections.
The reason I still gave the book 4 stars is that it does cover a great deal of area in a very concise and understandable manner. However, I do believe for those wanting to obtain an LVN/LPN it does go a bit into depth on unnecessary areas. The test for the most part, from what I have heard from others and read, is set at an 8th grade level.
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