<p>SO WHAT ABOUT 5 STEPS TO A 5?</p>
<p>5 Steps to a 5 is clearly superior to both Kaplan and REA. However, it is not as good as Barrons or Crash Course. Here’s why: On first glance, 5 Steps is a 341 page book with lots of content. However, looks can be deceiving. In reality 5 Steps has just 130 pages of content. Like most prep books, 5 Steps devotes a significant percentage of its pages to practice tests and answers. The 5 Step practice tests are better than Kaplan and REA but they are still not the real thing. The 5 Step content chapters all conclude with several more pages of questions, answers, and oddly a “Rapid Review” of material that they just reviewed. This end of chapter material consumes 82 pages. So all in all 5 Steps has just 130 pages of content. Check out the next post to see how this translates into weak instructional quality.</p>