I waited to review this book until after I finished it so I could see how everything went.  I purchased this book because I'm going to be starting school again and I was really concerned about doing College Algebra. It's been so long since I've been in school and math is one of my harder subjects as I mix up numbers and can't remember how to do more complex equations.<br><br>I loved that this book is very thorough by starting with basic math and progressing to the algebra and geometry portions. This was great as it helped to rebuild my math skills so that by the end of the book I was solving problems with more ease than before I started the book.<br><br>I didn't really use the videos they said we have access to. First, because I didn't find a video to every lesson, second, if I couldn't understand the concept being taught I looked up videos on YouTube and found excellent help from there.<br><br>Helpful tip: I also found a fractions calculator online that helped me work through a problem if I couldn't understand where I went wrong.<br><br>Each page has review exercises that has problems taught earlier in the book. I liked this as it kept things fresh in my mind for how to solve a problem. Then the page had "Helpful Hints." This is where it shows the concept you will be working on for that page and how to solve the problem. It's not super informative, but gives enough that I understood 98% of what was being taught from that section. I only needed outside help from videos a few times. Other than that it was easy to figure out how to complete the problems.<br><br>Lastly, there are 10 problems you will solve related to the concept shown in the Helpful Hints section. There is a review after each section in the book that goes over all the previous pages for that particular subject- such as fractions- the review page will have 20 questions related to fractions.<br><br>Finally, after the lessons on page 197-224 are addition practice problems you can do for the algebra portion of the book. Each page has 20 problems you can work out to fine tune your skills.<br><br>The book ends with a 100 question final that goes over all concepts taught in the book.<br><br>I gave 4 stars because there were about 4 pages I ended up not being able to do as I didn't understand the concept or it wasn't taught in the book.<br><br>Overall, this book was a great resource and I feel it gave me confidence to take the next step in my education. I was so impressed I purchased it for my sister as well.