<p>AP USH: REA and Supplement it with the AMSCO BOOK
AP Psychology: Barron’s and PR for Practice TESTS. But all you need is Barron’s.
AP Environemental Science: Dont USE Barron’s but USE PR.. good for that
AP Biology: CLIFFS…and PR for tests…</p>
<p>Just a Reminder: I previously stated this before. Can you please look at the previous 21 pages of this book for Review Books because all of these questions are redundant. </p>
<p>Thanks for your help</p>
<p>Jonathan</p>
<p>lots of people say that 5 steps to a is very good for Physics.. is it true??</p>
<p>Hi everyone, I’d appreciate suggestions for the following courses:</p>
<p>AP U.S. Government
AP Comparative Government
AP Microeconomics
AP Macroeconomics
AP Spanish Language
AP English Literature & Comp
AP Statistics
AP European History</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>AP U.S. Government PRINCETON REVIEW
AP Comparative Government ???
AP Microeconomics ???
AP Macroeconomics ???
AP Spanish Language BARRON’S
AP English Literature & Comp REA OR CLIFFS
AP Statistics BARRON’S
AP European History MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY</p>
<p>wow this thread is way too complicated
here are my courses and recommendations (all 5s btw)</p>
<p>Eng Lang - CliffsAP
Chem - couldn’t find anything good. go with 5 steps to a 5 or kaplan i guess
Calc - PR for explanations, Barron’s for problems
Econ - 5 steps to a 5
Stat - Barron’s
Comp Sci - Barron’s
Physics C - APADVANTAGE GREAT NEW TEST BOOK</p>
<p>overall:</p>
<p>Barron’s: best problems though least accurate (way too hard)
Kaplan: overall most accurate problems, though the curves they suggest are crazy
PR: Great explanations, too easy
5 Steps to a 5: wish i had found them earlier. i think that <em>overall</em> they are the best AP book out there</p>
<p>Spark/Cliffs: too easy, not enough stuff. good for english i guess.</p>
<p>none of the other big companies are any good</p>
<p>Hey I was looking for review books at barnes and noble and found books for every subject accept AP Comparative Government. Are there books for it? If so which is best?</p>
<p>AP Comparative Government and Politics by Ethel Wood.</p>
<p>For anyone taking AP psychology, I recommend Princeton Review AP psychology as a supplement to your school textbook, it covered a lot of terms that I forgot about and some that my school text didn’t go over (I got a 5 on the test probably because of that, and the fact that my teacher was great certainly helped too)</p>
<p>For AP lang, cliffs notes was decent, but not great</p>
<p>For AP econ, my teacher made us buy a economics preparation book that was a digusting tan in color (sorry, I have a terrible memory and don’t know the actual title or author of the book, I’ll edit this post later with the info) but it was extremely helpful to me</p>
<p>I like princeton review for calc. It explains everything really well. Princeton review for Chem was also good.</p>
<p>Just don’t use Princeton’s review for APUSH…lol…they said the MC would be chunked…sure it was…</p>
<p>i am currently trying to choose which calc AB book is best. a lot of people are saying barrons but when i read the reviews off amazon, some were claiming that it was too difficult and it lacked proper explaination. please help!</p>
<p>oh, and this is just a random rant but i checked amazon to buy my upcoming AP books and searched for the 2008 editions (becuase i prefer the most updated ones :P) and PR had a whole new set of 2008 books but…THEY DON’T COME OUT UNTIL 2008! i know i know, “duh. it’s labeled 2008 for a reason” but still, how are we suppose to determine if the new editions are even that good if they don’t come out until a couple of months before the actual test. they should be out by the time school starts so people can actually use them to complement their AP classes as well as study, instead of waiting half a semester and then buying them. and the books aren’t even 2007-2008, it’s just 2008. how strange.</p>
<p>Yeah i experiecned the same prob. This was even worse in chem because they changed the format, and there were no prep books out there for the new format. The 2006 edition of PR calc is really good though, It got me a 5. Might as well buy it, unless u really want the 2008. Prolly not much of a diff between the two editions.</p>
<p>I’d recommend:</p>
<p>Psych - Barrons
Art Hist - REA</p>
<p>I got fives on both of those tests using those books, and I learned practically nothing in the classes.</p>
<p>US History: Barron’s COLLEGE USH study guide</p>
<p>Latin: REA</p>
<p>For AP Environmental use smartypants or Barron’s…helped me get a 4 =)</p>
<p>WOAH</p>
<p>THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL - why is it that in the first half of this thread (yes I read all those pages) Barrons seems to have dominated for stats, where as in the second half Princeton Review is dominating and Barrons is being criticized as Hard/Unhelpful practice tests?</p>
<p>Anyone who got a 5 on the exam have any advice? (I got a 4 and want to retake it)</p>
<p>For Stat, use Barron’s.</p>
<p>AP Chem: I looked at Princeton Review and didn’t like it. I prefer Kaplan, which covers more material and is pretty much flawless except for their reactions section, which sucks. </p>
<p>AP US History: Amsco is good. Even though it’s long, it has a good outline format for easy reference. Princeton Review is good at covering the major concepts, which is useful in FRQ’s. REA is also good, but its practice tests have some really awful and obscure questions.</p>
<p>AP Euro: Princeton Review. Not Barron’s, which does not cover the important infor, nor REA, which is way too in depth for an AP test.</p>
<p>AP English Lang: CliffsAP, definitely. The only useful part is the practice tests, which is basically the entire book. Definitely look at the sample essays; they are a great tool. Also, Master the AP English Essay is excellent preparation for essays. Avoid Kaplan at all costs.</p>
<p>A few of you were concerned about the new format of the test…</p>
<p>Look, the new format of the test is basically this: Instead of devoting an entire question to, say, electromagnetism, each question will incorporate other aspects of chemistry into the question. For example, one question may be all about carbon. 1a will ask something like draw the Lewis dot diagram for CO2. 1b will ask what type of molecular structure it is. 1c will ask if it’s polar or not and why. 1d will ask you, if CO2 reacts with so and so to produce so and so, and there is a table of bond enthalpies, how many kJ will it take to produce 5.0 g of product? 1e will ask how many sigma and pi bonds there are. That was how the 2007 test was like. So, you have to know the same info, but you just can’t get away with knowing a ton about electromagnetism and choosing the electromagnetism question over the stoichiometry question. Instead of getting away with not knowing anything about a topic, the test is redesigned to make sure students have a broad knowledge. So don’t worry about a review text becoming inadequate.</p>
<p>I read through this entire thread. At first, Smartypants was the best for APES, then REA, now PR. So which is it?? I’ll be self-studying.</p>