Test anxiety!

It's a terrible thing to be worried about a test that I'm not even taking until this summer or in the fall. I am currently searching for a great test guide for the Biology Praxis II for my license and good lord.. most of these books cost upwards of $50. We aren't even talking about a huge, all-encompassing biology review guide with multiple sample tests and thousands of tips and tricks (something that Kaplan provided me for my GRE preparation). That huge chunk of change will buy me a 180 page book with ONE test composed of 125 questions. Have the people making these books completely lost their minds? I venture to say that the answer to that is "yes." Scary, isn't it?!

Textbooks can tell a similar story. Most textbooks put you out $200 (with a return of $20 at buyback time) and you use maybe 50% of the entire book throughout your courses. It's ridiculous!

I will likely be able to get a fee waiver when I actually have to take the test, which is fine. It will make up for the ungodly amount of money I have to shell out for a book just to take that damn test.

I don't sound bitter about it at all, do I?