I am a student at Ridgewood High School in West Lafayette, OH. These books has unique words in then, but we never use them because we never heard of them before. It's just a waste of time. Most people copy off another students, only few STUDENTS learn from them.

I am a student and have been using Vocabulary Workshop for two years. I find it very boring doing the same thing over and over again. Most of the words I don't remember and have to look back at definitions for the tests and the review sections.

This book is great, but I think it is really boring and sometimes can really make you fall asleep.

My 13 year old son used this book to prepare for the COOP exam. The plus side to this book is it has "diagnostic" tests so you can quickly identify strengths and weaknesses and then zero in on the chapters needed to improve your grade. There is a ton of practice questions and hundreds of mini exams on each subject covered on the test. The book also includes 2 full practice COOP as well as 2 full practice HSPT exams. The book however, is ruined by very poor explanations on exam answers and no explanation at all on practice answers. The worst part is the answer key on many of the tests appear on the very same page as the last few quesions, so in other words, it's nearly impossible to take the tests (especially the diagnostics) without seeing the answers. Finally, the book contains at least 10 errors that I found and there might be more that I didn't realize. I would expect better from a name like Barron's. Great idea, poorly developed book :(

This book helped me prepare for the Coop And HSPT. This book explains step by step how to find anwsers to the problems. I really do reccomend this book!

My teacher wanted ten bucks for this book in class for a high school world lit course. It's probably a better deal here. I found it was very badly printed with marking looking as if it were badly photocopied on several pages. I hate using this book and it's only value is if you're required to use it for a class.

This vocabulary series is the best one I have found that illustrates how the word is most often used. The vocabulary list is also well thought out; the words are actually in frequent use. You can't go wrong buying this series.

The amount of typographical errors is truly astounding for a book that has passed through 9 editions. The answer keys have so many errors that the book is of dubious merit. If the student realizes the answer the book gives is wrong then hopefully s/he has the means to find the right answer. Otherwise, the student is just left insecure, frustrated, or mislead. Upon what survey do they make their claim that this is such a popular book???

The editors really, really need to proof read their text better - it is literally embarrassing. The current level is not competent enough to be deemed professionally done.

If this book is representative, would I trust them for further books like SAT Preparation? They must do better than this to be competitive.

I bought it because it was the best bestseller among its kind.
It has a lot of typos. The book is not well organized.

I recently coached a group of eighth-grade students on how to take standardized tests, including the COOP. Their school had instructed them to buy this book, so we began by using it as a reference and workbook. We quickly discovered that the book was filled with poorly written exercises, obviously wrong answers, and systematic labeling errors. Please do not buy this book! It is so badly written that it may actually do more harm than good, and the authors should be ashamed of foisting such a flawed work on unsuspecting students. If you're going to take the COOP, there is a perfectly serviceable book, published by ARCO, that we found to be a much better resource.

This book might give you good practice on high school entrance exams, but the careless mistakes make it frustrating to get through even one subtest! They don't even know their alphabet! This is the first book I have seen which has a language test with the options (A), (B), (D), and (D)! It is an outrage to know how poorly this book has been put together. In the long run, it will teach your child to learn a thing or two about entrance exams, but please, if you have other books to choose from, choose another one!