<p>THE WORST PREP BOOKS</p>
<p>The two worst prep books are Kaplan’s AP Psychology and REA’s AP Psychology. Both books are inept and a total waste of time and money. Kaplan’s content chapters begin on page 29 and end on page 195. Since each chapter concludes with 5 pages of review questions and answers that leaves a total of just 81 pages of actual content. And that includes a final chapter on “Applied and Other Areas of Psychology” that is not in the College Board AP Psychology Course Description booklet and will not generate any exam questions. Most of the book’s pages are devoted to totally incompetent “practice” questions that bear little or no resemblance to real AP questions. For example, the tests include fill-in-the blank multiple-choice questions that are not used on the actual exam. Here is an example from page 245: "A client with _______ most likely is suffering from some form of schizophrenia. The answer is “delusions and and hallucinations?”</p>
<p>The cover of the REA AP Psychology (8th edition) asks the question: “Are you serious about getting a 5?” Yes, and that is why this is a totally incompetent book that should be avoided. How bad is the book? Well, it contains 13 chapters that do not even follow the Course Description outline. The end of chapter “reviews” include fill-in-the blank, matching, listing and other questions that are not used on the actual tests. The three practice tests are even worse than Kaplan’s.</p>