{"id":149,"date":"2007-07-24T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T01:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-07-24T21:18:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T01:18:40","slug":"petersons-ultimate-gre-tool-kit-by-drew-johnsonthomson-petersons-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/petersons-ultimate-gre-tool-kit-by-drew-johnsonthomson-petersons-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterson&#8217;s Ultimate GRE Tool Kit by Drew JohnsonThomson Peterson&#8217;s, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an introduction to the test format, this book is OK, but it could be much better-edited: there are some errors, both in the text and in the practice tests. Example: on one practice test, the book says that the solutions of -x<sup>2<\/sup> = 2x-15 are x=-3, 5 because in solving the problem, the author accidentally changes 2x to -2x. There&#8217;s a PDF on the Peterson&#8217;s website that lists corrections to some errors, including this one. Even in the correction, though, they only correct the error in the first two steps of solving the problem: which means that the final answer is still listed as -3,5, which is (still) wrong! On p 91, the area of a trapezoid is given as A = (b<sub>1<\/sub>+b<sub>2<\/sub>)(h), but it&#8217;s actually that divided by two, which the book makes clear in an example on the next page. There are problems in the verbal sections, too: on p 204, a &#8220;word origin&#8221; box&#8221; about the Latin &#8220;frangere = to break&#8221; appears above the word &#8220;nadir.&#8221; The same word origin box appears on p 214, this time correctly positioned above the word &#8220;refractory.&#8221; According to the diagnostic test at the start of the book, &#8220;acrid&#8221; is a better antonym for &#8220;salubrious&#8221; than &#8220;deleterious&#8221; is. Somehow, I suspect there are better GRE-prep books out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an introduction to the test format, this book is OK, but it could be much better-edited: there are some errors, both in the text and in the practice tests. Example: on one practice test, the book says that the solutions of -x2 = 2x-15 are x=-3, 5 because in solving the problem, the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}