Sarah’s Reviews > Secrets of the National Board Certification Science: Adolescence and Young Adulthood Exam Study Guide: National Board Certification Test Review for the NBPTS National Board Certification Exam > Status Update

More disturbing errors throughout this text. Such as a failure to understand how hypothesis are written. The practice test #3 question #14 states that a hypothesis must be an if/then statement in order to be testable. No science teacher should be teaching that. You can have a null format or a directional format and still have a testable hypothesis.

More errors - this time in the practice tests. They stated that the work done is equal to the change in potential. This is incorrect. Work done is equal to the negative change in potential. I'm starting to think these materials are not only woefully inaccurate, but also not like the exam at all.

Another typo - called the moon phase a waning gibbons instead of gibbous. Gibbons are primates....not moon phases. For $50 a book, I expect someone to get an editor on this content.

Pg 35 section on sea floor spreading "the crust is several million years younger than the continental crust"

This is incorrect. Continental crust is several BILLIONS of years old whereas the oceanic crust is around 200-350 million years old.

Pg 26s section on sea floor spreading correctly explains this.

I should not have to fact check an instructional text like this. Especially a study book.