<p>I'm buying all of my AP books now before school starts, and I have no idea what to do for this class. I always thought PR was the consensus, but I saw some pretty poor reviews on Amazon. Would I be better off getting Barron's? Or is there another book that I am missing? I took a general chemistry class last year and found it pretty easy.</p>
<p>No one has any ideas?</p>
<p>I was wondering the same exact thing…</p>
<p>I took AP Chemistry last year and got a 5 (I also got 800 on the Chemistry SAT). I read a lot of my textbook during the year, and used PR closer to the test. I thought that PR covered the essentials, which was good for me because I already knew a lot from my textbook. I read some of my friend’s barron’s book, but I found it waaaay too detailed and was like a second textbook. If you are willing to do the homework in your textbook throughout the year, then I would recommend using PR to review. Only get Barron’s if you are not planning on using your textbook much; Barron’s is more like a second textbook (with many mistakes…)</p>
<p>I think I’m just going to purchase Barron’s… I guess the more information, the better? 
Unless someone else wanted to come along and share something.</p>
<p>I am usually a PR person, but I saw some cruddy reviews on how the 2014 book does NOT cover the new curriculum.</p>
<p>I don’t think they added anything new to the curriculum wiht the changes, rather than took stuff out to focus on certain “big ideas” as well as putting emphasis on labs and interpreting data (charts , graphs , tables" etc</p>
<p>5 Steps to 5 is not a good book for sciences! Great for history, but for chemistry it was very basic and missed out on some important topics.</p>
<p>Which Mistakes?</p>