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Book Review: Longman Preparation Series for the Test of English in International Communication (TOEIC) – Fifth Edition

Author: Lin Lougheed Publisher: Pearson Longman – 350 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This study guide and workbook of practice tests enables the student to prepare for and successfully pass the Test of English for International Communication, or TOEIC for short. It is an introductory course and its focus is on listening and reading. There are other books in this series that you may want to acquire. You can go on the Internet to source the other members of the TOEIC series. The material in this book has been organized in a simple manner and it can be...

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Book Review: Longman Preparation Course for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): iBT – Second Edition

Language (TOEFL): iBT – Second Edition Author: Deborah Phillips Publisher: Pearson Longman – 671 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar This is a large tome of 671 pages in paperback that is a comprehensive review of material found on the Test of English as a Foreign Language, known in short s TOEFL. This test has been around for decades and it is (or at least, was) required to be taken by foreign students whose mother tongue is not English, in order to be admitted into any college or graduate school in the United States. The book comes with a...

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Book Review – Longman Introductory Course for Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): The Paper Test

Author: Deborah Phillips Publisher: Pearson Longman – 419 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar This is the first book of three books in a series of courses to prepare for taking the Test of English as a Foreign Language, known in short as the TOEFL. This book is at the introductory level (in green color). The other two books are the preparation course (in purple color) and the intermediate course (in blue color) for the TOEFL by the same author, Deborah Phillips. The TOEFL has been around for decades and it is (or at least, was) required to be...

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Book Review: Step-Up to the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, Step 3

Author: Jonathan P. Van Kleunen Publisher:  Wolters Kluwer-Lippincott, Williams & Williams – 372 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This book on preparing to take the third and final examination to qualify for gaining a medical license in the United States is focused more on decision-making in medical cases than on testing your knowledge of medicine and surgery, and its specialties. “It is the final hurdle in the transition from medical school to graduate medical education,” the author Dr. Jonathan P. Van Kleunen describes it. The other two exams prior to this third and final one – the Step 1 and Step 2 – are focused relatively more on testing your knowledge of subject matter, and less so on your ability to choose a course of action, given the details of a medical case. The contents in this book are organized in a much different way than the test-prep books for the Step 1 and Step 2 of the U.S. medical licensing exam. Dr. Van Kleunen has written this book on the basis that you already have a sufficient body of knowledge on the various medical specialties, some experience treating patients with different types of conditions, and the ability to choose the correct course of action should you encounter a case that is new and unfamiliar to you. The basic purpose of this exam is to test the ability...

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Book Review: National Medical Series’ Q & A for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, Step 2: Clinical Knowledge (CK) – Fourth Edition

Authors: Kenneth H. Ibsen, PhD and Nandan Bhatt, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluer-Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins   – 365 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This book helps you prepare to take the step 2 (clinical knowledge) portion of the medical licensing exam in the United States. We urge you, the exam taker, to carefully read the “Using this Book” section provided in the Preface. To emphasize its importance, we would urge you to read it a second time, and take notes on how to best prepare for it. Studies of successful test-takers have shown that it is not just the level of knowledge of various subjects (in this case, medical and surgical specialties) that leads to test-takers’ high scores in exams, but also their close knowledge and developed skills of exam-taking that are critical to successful outcomes. The authors state at the outset that they have simulated the practice tests in this book as closely as possible to the real tests in the actual exam you will be taking. That is certainly a plus for this book. The contents of the tests and the nature of the questions asked therein, relate to these six disciplines: medicine (and specialties therein); obstetrics; pediatrics; preventive medicine and public health; psychiatry; and surgery. Some 1,000 questions are organized into 20 packets of 50 questions each. Of these, 600 questions are provided to you in...

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