Pass the PSB/HOAE - Complete Health Occupations Aptitude Test Study Guide and Practice Test Questions

This a very good study guide that provides a lot of explanation of concepts in basic bio., chem, physics, and math. It has a quiz to help you assessed the areas you need to focus your studies on. Really could not ask for more. Has two sets of practice questions for all test sections in addition to the assessment questions.

Really helped me to study for the PSB test! It gave a basic outline of what questions would be like and what to prepare for on how to take the exam.

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 think I would have done ok without this but I believe after studying with this guide I was able to do well and get into my program without any problems.

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

Ok not what I wanted or expected however was good to have samples questions I recomend hoae study notes firstit said you can get online version as well however that's incorrect website redirects

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.

Well put together. Included practice exams. This was the best book used by my daughter and her friends who studied together and had purchased other Help books.

If the delivery person ring the bell or knock the door that would be great

great

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.

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).

Great prep book!