Optometry Admission Test: New Rudman's Questions and Answers on the ... (Admission Test Series)

Rating:
Summary: This book may help some people
Review: It is clear that this Rudman-series study guide was put on the market to challenge the Betz-Williams-Wilkins monopoly on the OAT study-guide market. Unfortunately, it contains no OAT-specific content. Rudman produces dozens of study guides and I'm guessing the same content is recycled between all the books. Eighty percent of the book is composed of hundreds of pages of photocopied multiple-choice questions for Bio, Chem, Phys, Orgo & Math (note that there are NO English practice questions). The other twenty percent of the book is made up of photocopies of essays taken from ancient sources and obsolete textbooks - all without any general theme other than that they are science-related - a very good cure for insomnia. On the whole, however, some people may find this book useful. There are TONS of practice questions - hundreds and perhaps thousands of them. But again, though the questions are science-related, they are not OAT-specific. Hence, you may spend a lot of time practicing questions on topics that the OAT won't cover. And unfortunately, though the book provides answers for all the multiple-choice questions, it provides no explanations. So, if you don't know why an answer is the way it is, you're stuck. Add to that, the fact that the answer scheme is plagued with mistakes, and you can see how you can end up second-guessing the book wherever you and it disagree. Believe me, this significantly comprises the integrity and usefulness of the book entirely. Again, however, some people may find it useful since the book does provide an unlimited supply of multiple-choice questions and that's what the OAT is all about. But, having questions and not being sure that you have the right answers isn't the best approach to learning OAT material.