<p>What prep book(s) would you recommend or think is better? I'm kind of torn between PR and Barron's because I've heard that PR is easier to understand, but Barron's has mini quizzes at the end of each chapter. </p>
<p>Please help?</p>
<p>If you’re last minute cramming, PR is the best. But, if you are going to study all year long, Barron’s is better. Barron’s almost feels like a companion to the textbook and PR is more like a genuine review book. If you’re motivated enough to study all year, get Barron’s.</p>
<p>Disregarding the original post…</p>
<p>Should I purchase a review book with practice tests for the AP World History exam, considering that I am taking the course in school?</p>
<p>It’s also my first exam that I’ll be taking so I am unfamiliar with the test format.</p>
<p>@Meander: This is my situation too, anyways, except I’ve already taken an AP exam. :P</p>
<p>The Princeton Review Guide was honestly a lifesaver. Just read the review’s summaries throughout the year as you go through the material in class. It’ll help solidify it in your brain, and you can take the tests in April when you’re getting ready to rock and roll.</p>
<p>I agree with Princeton review. I just used Wikipedia when I took it lol.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should use Barrons if you plan on taking the AP World subject test, but Barrons is probably a massive overkill on minute details now that the test has shifted even further away from specific factual questions and instead heavily towards passage-analysis based questions. </p>
<p>I read PR, but personally, the most useful resource for me was the GetAFive video lectures. I took extensive notes on the online course, which turned out to be uncannily relevant to the test.</p>
<p>I got a 5, if I need that imprimatur for my opinions to seem valid…</p>
<p>My teacher made me get the AP Achiever McGraw Hill one and I really liked it (I had Princetons as well, but it just didn’t do it for me_</p>
<p>Crash course!!</p>
<p>Use Barron’s if you are self-motivated and will not get overwhelmed when facing ALL of those pages, chock full of details, details, details 
. Barron’s can’t help you if you start too late to absorb all of the details. That being said, I used Barron’s for a supplement to a terrible class, and just reading the entire book plus getting essay resources online got me a 5! If you decide to get Barron’s, make sure to get supplemental materials for the essay writing because the guide in Barron’s is vague at best!</p>
<p>I used PR for last-minute cramming as well as teaching myself information that we didn’t cover in the class (basically anything recent) and I managed to get a 4 this year.</p>
<p>I also watched a bunch of Crash Course: World History videos in the weeks leading up to the exam.</p>
<p>Has anyone used AP World History: An Essential Coursebook (2nd ed) by Ethel Wood? How did it compare to Princeton and Barron’s?</p>
<p>Why not first watch all of John Green’s WH Courses, and then use Prep books after getting an overall background knowledge of what you might be getting yourself into. If you really want to get that 5, just master the essays, and let CCers grade all of them, assuming you did all three in the 2 hour time slot, which isnt necessarily that hard. Seriously I failed the MC for the 2013 test, but got a 4 thanks to a decent DBQ, CCOT, and COT.</p>