PSB HOAE Practice! Health Occupations Aptitude Test Practice Questions

Overall, this is a very low quality book. It appears to have been thrown together by someone looking to make a quick buck, rather than by someone who wants to help you study for a PSB exam. It is a borderline scam. Some of the major issues are:1. "Complete Test Preparation" is not a professional test prep company. It is a man named Brian Stocker who self-published this guide.2. It is not clear which test this guide is for. PSB offers several different tests. On one page, the guide says that it is for the HOAE, but on anther page it says that it is for the APNE.3. The format of the practice questions in this guide does not match the format of the questions on PSB exams. For example, on the vocabulary section of PSB exams you are given a list of five words and asked to select the word that is most different in meaning. But in this study guide, the vocabulary practice questions are "Choose the best definition of __" followed by a list of four definitions to choose from. On the PSB exams the math questions are word problems, but in this study guide most of them are not.4. Many of the practice questions in this guide are poorly written and do not make sense. Example: "Solve 3b - 4 + 5b." This question makes no sense. This is not an equation or an inequality, so it is not even possible to solve this. On one reading comprehension practice question two possible answers are: "A. Yes, the white blood cell count can indicate disease" and "C. The white blood cell count can sometimes indicate disease." Isn't that the same thing?5. Some of the questions are repeated. For example, a practice question about the meaning of "precipitation" shows up in both the vocabulary section and in the natural sciences section.6. There are tons of editing errors and copy/paste errors.For all of these reasons, I do not think this study guide would help anyone improve their PSB score.

I am so angry. I didn't open up this book that I bought awhile back to check it out first. After looking and taking the test, I realized that I really needed to go back and learn my math. Now, this is the part I'm pissed off about. It didn't help that the answers in the back didn't match up with any of the questions from the tests. This book was completely off. I don't know if they made a mistake while publising it or not but what a waste of money. Now, how will I know what is correct or not besides having to google every question?

Some numbers in the answer key are wrong. The author sometimes puts the wrong corresponding letter in the answer key. And in at least two times, the answer given is obviously wrong. One of the obvious mistakes in the answer key was in the spelling portion which is easy to verify. Please have someone proofread your book!

Good price

A needed book to pass the PBS to get accepted into the nursing program

It helped as far as refreshing my memory on the math and stuff, and maybe a little on the test. It could have been more specific I think to help.

There are a significant number of editing and other errors in this book. Answers are incorrect or missing completely. Items are misnumbered. Do not waste your money on this book.

This book had so many mistakes in it that I simply put it aside and moved on to better resources. The Spelling section in Test 2 was a hoot -- for instance, according to the author, the correct spelling of "humorous" is "humorus." The editing was hit or miss; many answer selections had two possible selections for the same answer choice. Other answer selections had no letter choices at all. The answer keys were unreliable; in several instances, the correct answer was shown but with the wrong letter choice.This is definitely a low-quality study resource.

Good study GUIDE! Quite a few of spelling mistakes and twice the answers given for the practice test were wrong (description matched a different answer than the answer they said was correct - or I was just wanting mine to be right :) ) Biology review was really short so I would recommend also using your notes from school to review from. After writing the HOAE, I thought that this book's practice questions were well written. Spelling and science were a little more difficult in the actual test, but not much more difficult. The academic aptitude section was fairly similar to the actual test. After writing the HOAE, I'd say overall the book was pretty good for practicing questions, but the review of the material could have been a bit better. I did use quite a lot of outside sources for reviewing science, which definitely helped me a lot. Just using this books review alone would be a good guide but shouldn't be the only source of info to study.FYI for people writing the test: You get to choose the order you do the 5 parts of the test. At least for mine, the number of questions and timing was different than the book said (I'm in Ontario applying to St. Clair College).

Wasn’t helpful. I bought it, but the questions, particularly the math section didn’t reflect the content of the questions. (And I don’t mean they weren’t exact, they weren’t similar mathematics.)

The tests were riddled with errors and the answer key was inaccurate. Lots of spelling errors in this edition and questions and answers did not always align. Content was okay, but there are better resources out there for a comparable price.

Tons of spelling mistakes which seems silly. I lost alot of confidence in this ebook when I found the editing had been so botched. If the editing isn't even right how do I know if the answers are even right? But I guess the general idea of what to study is there.

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