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11th October 2008 | 10:02

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agent.oen

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From: Matrix

Oxford Books.... Crap

Looks like I'm not the only one to find the Oxford books to be really bad. I'm currently studying the ATPL and our school makes use of the afore mentioned books. We use the latest editions (2008) but these are so full of mistakes and errors it makes one doubt about the professionalism of the school! Just a few examples:

uncountable typos - brackets opened but not closed, characters that should be in super/sub script are not formatted as so (e.g. 100C instead of 10 degrees celcius)
end of chapter exercises having incorrect values inserted in tables (values are inserted under the wrong columns) - this is especially evident in the Gen Nav book
missing chapters!! Chapter 4 is missing in my Gen Nav book! Luckily it's an easy chapter.

The list goes on. And apart from these errors, I find the books to be wayyy too detailed.

A.O.

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