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I bought this book to prepare for the NBCOT exam, and found it to be pretty much useless. The questions are not formatted or in anyway similar to those on the exam, and the answers in the back are very brief, one or two sentances,and don't offer much clarification or explanation regarding correct or incorrect answers. I found that most of the book focuses on terminology or basic concepts; not at all as in depth or as situational as the real exam.
Rating:  - This book was a disappointment
Greetings,
Let me start out by saying that I passed the certification test on my first try with a very high score.
Having said that, unforunately this book simply does not prepare you for the NBCOT certification exam. I would recommend this only as a add-on to other material and others books, specifically the one I liked was by Caryn Johnson "The Occupational Therapy Examination Review Guide".
As far as this book goes:
- The majority of the questions are *not even close* to the same format as you will encounter on the certification test. On the NBCOT test, ALL of the questions are based on clinical reasoning. This book has many questions like "Where on the body would you find the acromion process?" and way too few questions that resemble the real deal.
- The explanation of the correct answer is somewhat limited.
- For a few of their questions, I honestly thought their explanation for the 'correct' answer was actually incorrect!
- The wrong choices from their sample questions are barely discussed. In the book by Caryn Johnson, they explain every choice, why one answer is correct and why the other choices are incorrect.
- They do not reference the source material from where their explanation came from. In the Caryn Johnson book, it would list a detailed answer, then the book AND the chapter from which this question was formulated. That was a huge help because I would flip open my textbook and immediately read up on that subject.
- This book did come with a voucher to take an online, timed test. But that online test did not have ANY explanation of the answers, right or wrong.
This book isn't horrible. It will get you thinking in the test-taking frame of mind and it will provide you some helpful advice. As an add-on book to other stuff, it will help you. However, I would recommend not letting this book be your only source.
Good luck.
Rating: - Terrible review
This book only review's the right answer on the questions. It does not go indepth on why an answer is right OR wrong. Some of the questions have you wondering, where did I learn some of this stuff from? The material in this book, is VERY different from the study material in other books I have used. It is very hard to review of this book, and non-user friendly.
Rating:  - An okay review book
Some of the questions are poorly written and explanations for answers are often very brief. The diskette uses the same questions as the book, so I didn't find it very helpful. I wish the diskette would have had at least some (if not all) new questions.
The book does use many domain style questions (like the NBCOT exam). I wouldn't recommend this book to be the only book you use to prepare for the exam, but it is somewhat useful.
Rating: - OT exam review book
I have the earlier edition of this book, and bought this edition to get new questions. Sadly to say, there were only a few new questions. I am quite disappointed.
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