<p>anyone know if PR 2010 edition is updated? It was published Sep 09 if that helps</p>
<p>I’m pumped lol. How will you guys be studying?</p>
<p>Just some adivce- use the Princeton Review. It was amazingly helpful for me. </p>
<p>This year’s exam didn’t seem too awful. The FRs were ridiculously easy and the MCs weren’t terrible. Although I know I missed one that was completely obvious.</p>
<p>Just to sum up what some of you said, here goes:</p>
<p>Barron’s is not enough. PR is good and must be used. A combination is best.</p>
<p>Do comment!</p>
<p>In an effort of full disclose, I will start by saying that I am the author of the PR AHPG test-prep book. Having read all the prep books and following last years threads, I can tell you not to buy the Barrons book. I know it sounds biased but allow me to explain. Only the PR and Kaplan books are written by people who have long been involved in APHG test development, teacher training and exam reading supervision. One of the Barrons authors is a reader for the exam but her involvement ends there. </p>
<p>Barrons may cost a dollar less and be a thinner book, but you get what you pay for. Honestly, if you need lots content (supposing you did not have a course available or only had a half-year course) buy the Kaplan book. It has lots of content in detail. The author is very thorough. However, if youve had the class, if youve done poorly on AP tests in the past, or if this is your first year taking an AP class buy the PR book. It has three chapters on test strategy and another seven concise (and occasionally funny) content chapters with quick examples. The exams in the PR are also written following the most recent protocols on question development. </p>
<p>Keep another thing in mind, dont fall for the, AP Human Geography is the easiest AP test junk. In fact APHG is the second lowest scoring test in the AP catalog. What makes it easy is that the material in interesting and enjoyableunlike Calc, which as someone with a PhD I can tell you, is a huge waste of time, unless you plan on being an engineer.</p>
<p>For anyone who buys the PR book and would like to give the author feedback, you can contact me with email on this site.</p>
<p>And yes, I can’t spell “disclosure”. I say this just so you know that I am a regular person who was actually a pretty poor high school student (Oakton HS, Fairfax, VA in the 1980s). This is why we have editors in the publishing business.</p>
<p>^Interesting. So you are the person who wrote the APHG Princeton Review? Cool.</p>
<p>Are they really going to change the curriculum?</p>
<p>Action52 could you keep us updated if you do hear something about any changes?</p>
<p>For those of you self studying, have You come up with study plans yet?</p>
<p>I’m self studying meyers with PR and barron’s flashcards</p>
<p>I ordered my textbook. I’m going to read the whole thing, and answer all the questions. Then I’ll get the updated study guide as soon as PR releases it!</p>
<p>I already have the textbook (The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography). The first thing to do now is read and take notes of the first chapter.</p>
<p>@Jerry I had that one.</p>
<p>if your teaches is going to be using the tests generated by the book it really helps to focus on the details in that book</p>
<p>My school don’t have the class, so I will be self-studying. However, I will read the textbook scrupulously, so I will take your advice on that, but for a different exam.</p>
<p>hmm well to be frank, the ap exam does not focus as much on detail.</p>
<p>I would recomend you focus on the big topics, their ideas, and their significance.</p>
<p>But, on the FRQ’s the single most important thing is examples.</p>
<p>EXAMPLES EXAMPLES EXAMPLES. For the FRQ the more detailed the better.</p>
<p>^I disagree about the APHG exam not focusing much on detail, at least on the MC questions. A great deal of the MC questions asked about very specific details or cultural traits.</p>
<p>I will also be using Rubenstein’s.</p>
<p>Well to be fair puggly, if you know the main concepts you can reason things out.</p>
<p>Not always. To give an example, there was one question about the location of a certain language that I had no idea about.</p>