Barron's MAT: Miller Analogies Test

This book is filled with errors not minor errors either but significant ones that derail any progress you might have made. In all of the sample tests, there are two sets of answers, one set simply lists the answers and the other set gives a full explanation. Needless to say, the two sets should give the same answer. Well, not so. On one of the tests, the answers given in one set do not match those given in the second set. It just so happens that the first set gives the wrong answers to the questions on the test. On many questions throughout the book, the answer choices are mislabeled so there might be two Cs or two Bs. There is hardly a page that does not have an error of some sort, usually a major error. I have worked through the 9th edition and it does not suffer from these problems. I would, therefore, buy that edition until a newly edited version of the 10th edition comes out.

There are some editorial errors in this test prep that need to be addressed. I can't disagree with the other reviewer on that point.

I would, however, highly recommend this test prep book. I took the pretest and calculated the percentage of correct answers once I finished. After reading chapters 2, 3, and 5 I took several more practice tests and averaged 13 percentage points higher than the pretest. The helps are invaluable. I needed to score at least a 419 on the real MAT and scored significantly higher than that. I attribute a lot of that success to this prep book and would recommend it to anyone.

I just finished taking the MAT after preparing with this book as my main guide for 2 weeks. This book definitely helped me learn some terms I was not familiar with and brush up on some faint knowledge of certain subject areas. I can say it definitely helped me get at least 4 more questions right than I would have before studying, however, those four points may not make much of a different depending on where your score falls naturally.

Unfortunately I was unable to take a paper version of the actual test, and part of me wishes that all study guides came with computerized versions of the test that buyers could take online. The experience of taking the test via computer versus paper feels and behaves quite differently. The practice tests in almost all the study guides I found had a nice readable sized font, but when I took the test on the computer, the font was maybe 8pt high?! It was much smaller than I was used to reading from the practice tests. Also, in the practice...Read more