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Title: Barron's How to Prepare for the Stockbroker Exam: Series 7 (Barron's How to Prepare for the Stockbroker's Examination. Series 7, 2nd ed) by Michael T. Curley, Joseph A. Walker ISBN: 0-7641-0766-6 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Brief, concise, excellent starting point.
Comment: I purchased Barron's and ARCO/Thompson's material. I would highly recommend this book as a great starting point for concise answers to specific questions on the Series 7, and a general core review. It does fail in that there are details it leaves out, but after taking the review questions and practice exams, you'll know exactly what those are, and what additional information you need to research. Other more complete books often leave you bumuddled and confused with the massive amounts of information, over what will actually be on the test. This book will help you get the core concepts down quickly, and from there you can move on to more complete material and additional practice exams and computer based testing to feel in the gaps without drowning in an onslaught of information. I would recommend this as the best starting point, well worth its cost and time spent studying, but you will need to purchase more material with additional practice exams, and more detailed information to fill in the gaps.
Rating: 2
Summary: A nice additional study aid, but worthless by itself.
Comment: I recently read this book to prepare for the Series 7 and was not very impressed. After passing the Series 7 (with an 84%) and seeing the questions on the test, I decided to review this book. While the book definitely deserves it's 2 stars (as opposed to a lower rating), but book will not prepare you to pass the Series 7 exam alone.
I personally used this book in conjunction with the Dearborn Passtrak Series 7 exam manual. The Dearborn manual has nearly 1000 pages...Baron's coming in shy of 400 pages just to give an idea of a contrast between this book and the Dearborn. Obviously, it's impossible to condense 1000 pages of already condensed material into 400 pages.
Aside from the book being too brief and skirting over general ideas, the book is simply poorly written. My biggest complaint is the fact that the questions seem to have been written by someone that never saw this book in production, in that, the questions can't be answered by reading the chapters. On top of that, the questions are written in a muddled confusing manner that is NOT consistent with the way the REAL Series 7 questions are asked.
Overall, this book only helped me round out some rough edges that the Dearborn manual left behind. I didn't need it to pass the exam though and basically wasted my money.
You get what you pay for regarding this book. Don't bother with it and just get the Dearborn book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Use this book in conjunction with Passtrak Series 7
Comment: This book was instrumental in my success on the Series 7. Some info is out of date (Ex. Keogh limits), but if used in conjunction with the Dearborn Passtrak book you will succeed. Note: You cannot pass the series 7 just by using this book. Read my review on the Passtrak for how to pass this exam. Good luck!
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