<p>Anyone who's taken it before, we've been given some stuff we need to review before the school year starts. I've never taken chemistry, just AP biology last year. I'm going to be a junior. </p>
<p>I'm looking for a good study guide book --- any suggestions? I'm going to need to review quite a lot of stuff this summer.</p>
<p>PR is great. Brown’s Chemistry: the Central Science (either 10th ed or 11th ed) seems to be recommended worldwide for AP Chem classrooms, but reading straight off the textbook is definitely difficult. In fact, some chapters in that textbook give you extraneous material not tested in the AP exam. Therefore, you should get a study guide giving you a brisk review, preferrably Princeton Review’s. Barron’s tend to be extraneous as well and the paragraphs are incredibly wordy.</p>
<p>Princeton Review is a great, easy guide.</p>
<p>Get barron’s. Barron’s is the best period.
PR sucks</p>
<p>Princeton Review is a good review book ONLY if you are also taking the class.</p>
<p>Barrons goes into great depth, so the book would work well whether or not you actually took the class.</p>
<p>PR kind of annoyed me in it’s brevity of review. If you use it, you’ll need to have a copy of Zumdahl or some textbook (or your teacher) so that you can annotate the things it’s not particularly clear about. But it’s basically accurate, which I believe is a failing of Barrons.</p>
<p>It really depends on what you want to use the book for.</p>
<p>If it’s for a short review then PR will suffice.
If it’s for a full review then I think you should go with Barron’s.</p>
<p>We’re going to be using Zumdahl & Zumdahl next year.</p>
<p>This study guide will help me throughout the summer in my review of basic scientific notation things, and also will help me throughout the year as I learn.</p>
<p>Zumdahl writes awesome chem textbooks. When I studied for the exam two years ago, I used Barrons + PR. From what I remember, Barrons gave me a lot of information (my teacher was not good at teaching, and I felt Zumdahl at times was too tedious to read) but when I started reviewing, I switched to PR. If you want to do well on the AP exam, I also recommend doing as many problems as possible in the Zumdahl textbook. They are really similar to the AP exam problem (perhaps slightly harder, but it’s always better to be overprepared than underprepared)</p>
<p>I always thought Zumdahl was the universal AP chem book, not browns. Hm, all my friends at other schools used Zumdahl. Maybe it’s a west coast thing.</p>
<p>It must not be a west coast thing, I live in North Carolina and we use Zumdahl.</p>