<p>I bought the AP Barron's Calculus prep book for AP Calculus AB. The book, however, is more than 300 pages long. How would you recommend the best way in actually using the book. Should I read the entire book all the way through?</p>
<p>actually, the prep book's more like over 600 pages long</p>
<p>Doesn't it combine AB and BC? In any case, I got a 5 on the AB test last year and I used the Barrons book. What I did was just go over the AB sections of the book. However, don't waste your time with the questions/practice tests they ask in the book. Get a few old AP exams from your teacher. Make sure you know all the theorems and familiarize yourself with the way they word questions, especially on the free response. If you take enough practice tests and know the calc, it's a really easy test.</p>
<p>Do practice tests first. Use the book to review material you got wrong.
Perhaps if it's too intimidating, you could just use the book for practice tests then rely on your own textbook and class notes to actually learn the stuff. For an AP like calc, you really need to be doing problems. It has to be much more hands-on than say, APUSH. Make sure you review free-response questions and what constitutes a good grade.</p>