<p>@BCEagle91: Yeah, posts the links, please! We desperately want to know!!!</p>
<p>I already know about that. OCW is a well-known website. Anyway, thanks!
"There are quite a few universities offering course videos for many AP subjects."
Which universities?</p>
<p>I hope you've all seen this CC thread: </p>
<p>The OpenCourseWare Consortium link above may lead, by drilling down, to online video courses.</p>
<p>Here is a site of free AP courses. Not great, but FREE! [url=<a href="http://www.uccp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40%5DUCCP%5B/url">http://www.uccp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40]UCCP[/url</a>]</p>
<p>My son self studied for a couple of AP courses - Calc BC and Comp Sci AB. I think the thing to remember is that it isnt just testing your knowledge of a particular subject - it is testing on the AP designed curriculum, so it is very important to get some practice tests and prep books. For the above two classes he used prep books from Skylit Press.</p>
<p>He (and my daughter) also took some online classes - mostly through PA Homeschoolers, but my son also took Physics C through EPGY. </p>
<p>For a smart homeschooler with good study habits, AP classes are just not that difficult!</p>
<p>As a follow up question: Is it OK if the textbooks you use are from '92? I'm trying to get them cheap online, but do the books need to be more recent?</p>
<p>If it's science or math, probably as things change or the presentation changes over time. Can you borrow texts from your local district?</p>
<p>My son used a calc book that was published in the early 70s! (we werent being cheap - it is the book that Caltech still uses). I did get him a prep book to work thru because some of the methods/terminolgy might be a bit different.</p>
<p>I think you can usually get cheap textbooks that are a lot newer. Once a new version comes out, the older ones can be found for under $30, and sometimes a lot less. I bet you could find cheap texts from the early 2000.</p>
<p>We have a dozen calculus books including the Caltech book. But the newer books provide a lot more in the way of applications. Apostol also comes in two volumes which are $140 each (I got Volume 1 free from a coworker and bought Volume 2 used for $20 before prices for textbooks went crazy).</p>
<p>If you're looking at AP Biology, the material can change rather quickly as it's a rapidly expanding area.</p>
<p>I was looking @ European History, so that one probably hasn't changed much. :)</p>