Court Assistant (Career Examination Series) (Passbooks)

Exellent Book. Covers everything that will be on the test with practice tests, so you get the idea what to expect on the exam

I'm having trouble deciding where to begin because of all of the awful things I have to say about this piece of garbage.

Oddly enough, I'm going to start off with something positive that I was able to take from the book: A lesson in self sufficiency. Before anything, you'll need to go through the book and number the pages and create a table of contents for yourself, because the National Learning Corporation didn't bother to do that for you.

The book comes with a cheap spiral spine which looks like something you would have used to hand in a book report in 7th grade. If you go through the pages, you'll notice that many of them are different colors ranging for white to offwhite. However, these issues are not nearly the biggest problems with this borderline scam.

There are no answer explanations. On some types of questions this does not matter, but on many others, the whole purpose of having a study guide is defeated. For example, they'll give you...Read more

I went to a class over the weekend to prepare 300 of us to take the Court Assistant examination. What the lecturers said (they were already working for the State of New York Unified Court System) He said the book did not focus on the prescribed subject material on the actual test. that the math questions had nothing to do with the job of Court Assistant and that I wasted my money on the book. I don't know if there is a such thing as studying too much. This class was given by: CONCEPT REVIEW, INC. copyright 2010 A. Tropea. this work book in loose page form was given to us with perforated holes to go into a black loose leaf binder. Now there are subtle differences between the book written by NATIONAL LEARNING CORPORATION - THE MERITS: this book makes you think. I had to ask myself questions regarding legal terminology I should have already been aware of; e.g., abbreviations derived from latin used in law texts. I realized that I needed to sharpen up my skills. This book made me...Read more