has anyone else experienced frustration with Nova Physics?

[getsome111]

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I bought the ebook because of how highly regarded it is here. Im not sure if its just the conversion to the ebook but I've found numerous typos that cause the answer to not be found in the answer choices(incredibly frustrating if you're the kind of person who continues to work until at least one of your answers matches) later after burning out and looking at the key I realize then that there was a typo. Also, after just going quite in depth conceptually with wikipremed, I have started to think that the writers didn't consider that some distractors may technically be correct if certain unspecified conditions are met. Anyone else share these feelings? should I just ditch nova?

 

[mrh125]

it's decent for reinforcing concepts and practice problems. it has its drawbacks just like every other source though. mix and match sources

 

[Doctorphilic]

Actually, NOVA is great (explains things conceptually which is what you need for MCAT). But NOVA physics is not Berkeley Review Physics so use it as a supplement to clarify or understand things from a different angle. I use it as a supplement and I used the app version by Arcadia (I own the book) and so far I am enjoying doing the problems on my Ipad (you can even use the screen as a scratch and solve problems right on the screen). For the purposes of studying this is serving me well because sometimes I get bored with books and having the electronic version that can score your practice problems and and give u instant feedback is invaluable. I am not sure about the Ebook but if you want to get electronic version, get NOVA physics from app store by the above company. You can do your problems anywhere if you have the app version. Hope that helps.

 

[inasensegone]

I've combined TBR ~ Wikipremed >> NOVA ~ EK physics, and would probably rank them as such in terms of how I regard their usefulness and how often I use them during content review. I do really like how simple NOVA breaks down the physics though. NOVA, however, doesn't have enough practice problems and many seem too easy. Of the problems that I have done in it, I haven't really noticed an abundance of errors. I have the hard-copy though, so I am not sure of the e-version.