The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology

brendansjci
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:20:21 +0000

Has anyone ever used the books from this series? They all have glowing reviews… but the reviews all seem sorta fishy. It’s pretty hard to find any information about them anywhere besides amazon and they’re very expensive for their size (if a text book cost the same per page it would be pushing $600).

Looking at other reviews for other biology study guides on amazon you frequently see reviewers saying how great TUSGFB are, even concentrating the whole review (which is supposed to be on another book) on them. Here is a sample review for the oxford biology dictionary:

This is a very good reference for college biology because it helped to clarify certain terms. It also is a valuable study tool. I also really liked The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations
Vol 1 isbn:1933023007
Vol 2 isbn:1933023015
Vol 3 isbn:1933023023

These three study guides had great questions to guide me through what to expect on my undergraduate biology exams. A Dictionary of Biology is helpful in clearing up some harder concepts in biology texts.

It just seems a little strange to me; the same sort of thing goes on in the review for REA’s biology problem solver. The part that gets me is that the reviews list the full titles (which are very long) or isbn # for all three books, which would seem a little redundant. Also reviewers who list the books in other reviews haven’t actually reviewed the guides themselves. If anyone has actually used one of these guides (I think there are some for a few med. school topics as well), please chime in.

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