<p>what are the best prep books?
i know barrons is generally much harder than the actual test, but that's about all i know.</p>
<p>For Bio, CliffsAP is awesome.</p>
<p>i am a fan of the princeton review format of books.</p>
<p>i used cliff's notes ap bio last year which was good, but my friend had princeton review and some of the diagrams in hers were easier to use. all of the practice ap bio exams in any book that i did were harder than the actual thing. oh and i studied the day before the exam for like 4 hours, that was all. i barely remembered some concepts, but got a 5.</p>
<p>i am using princeton review for physics c this year, it's pretty good. it explains the concepts simply, but i don't think it goes into enough detail for the free response questions, it doesn't give you enough help with problem solving techniques and stuff. probably for b it would be better... i dunno.</p>
<p>and calc, i'm not using a review book, it's just math, whatever.</p>
<p>i also gotta say PR has done a fantastic job, but i hate the page quality, and the lack of background and examples. maeks the readings very difficult or boring</p>
<p>Cliffs and Cambell - Bio
Princeton Review and Cutnell & Johnson - Physics
Arco's, Barron's, Graphing/Numerical Analysis, Single Variable - Calc</p>
<p>thanks everyone!!! :)</p>