<p>Which textbooks do you guys use? I need to know because I want to purchase a textbook to read for self-study. Thanks!</p>
<p>eh.......isn't it a little too late?</p>
<p>its never too late dude...</p>
<p>I got the AP programming 2 book 3 days before my exam and I pulled off a 5 on it. Just put 100% into the exam for the next 2 or 3 days and you will get results.</p>
<p>I'm using the Barron's book...it seems pretty great to me, mainly because of the two full length tests and the quick chronological review of history. Though I would expect any review book to have the latter and most likely the former.</p>
<p>ahaha, I meant for next year =)</p>
<p>I want a real textbook so I can read it over the whole year; I'm not into that cramming garbage :P</p>
<p>I'm a crammer...I've got two days until my lang exam and three until my world exam, yet I am here posting. Depends on your style I suppose, I work much better under pressure as long as I am rested. The day before an exam I get really serious and it is just me and that subject...I forget to eat usually. After that exam I'm back to being me.</p>
<p>first off, lemme say that AP world is GAY BEYOND BELIEF.
now that i've expressed my feelings, time to be a bit more objective. if you really want to get a 5 (which i did last year), i'd say don't bother with a legit textbook because it has WAY too much info covering a span of topics that is WAY too broad. if you think about it, AP world is asking you to know what's going in Europe, Latin America, North America, China/India, and Africa at about 12-15 major points in time, and your supposed to know which societies were thriving and which were falling and what not. textbooks go way too far into detail because that's what textbook do. i crammed for it last year (my school doesn't even offer AP world) using Princeton Review (which I HIGHLY recommend for AP world, especially the little black boxes in it, those are really really really really really really really really good for essays). i hear that barron's does a good job with AP world too, so i'd get two of the AP books and read through them throughout the entire year. then, in the last month before the exam, find all of the areas that you think the AP books don't cover in depth in enough to write an essay on (there's a few topics that PR doesn't hit very well), and in that last month go through a legit textbook and learn about that era/dynasty/country/whatever. honestly, if you try to use a textbook for AP world, you're going to be trying to learn about 10x more than the exam requires, which is already way too much (or seems like it if ure trying to learn all of world history in about a weeks worth of time)</p>
<p>Well, I mean...I want a 5, but I really like the insignificant details. I'm a huge history nerd. Thanks alot for the advice, though. I just don't really condone studying solely for the test...:/. If I ever get stuck in a cramming spot though, I'll do that =).</p>
<p>Mine's called World Civilizations: The Global Experience AP Edition. But it is really boring, long, and repetitive.</p>
<p>Damn. xP. Back to the drawing board...</p>
<p>I used the Princeton Review book for World History and I got a 5 last year. I read it about 2 weeks before and I think it helped me get a five (although I knew the material pretty well before I reviewed anyways.)</p>
<p>My friend, who didn't know as much as me, also used the same book and managed to get a five as well.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how good it is a textbook, but I would definitely recommend it as a review book before the AP test.</p>
<p>Any textbook + PR World History = potential 5. That PR book is godly.</p>
<p>I have the same textbook as bigp and I also recommend that you avoid it at all costs, for the same reasons.</p>
<p>I purchased The Earth And Its Peoples. Is this a good one?</p>
<p>without any serious studying i got a 4. I would've got a 5 if i was more prepared for the DBQ (I still remember saying what the f<strong><em>?!? on the DBQ prompt on silver). I'll say is this, be prepared for a serious "</em></strong>!?!!??" moment on the DBQ, but no matter what, DO NOT PANIC and do NOT give up! And don't fall in the trap that many kids in my class did last year: do NOT leave any essay question blank, if you have to BS then do it, a few points are better than none.</p>
<p>Isn't PR a bit brief though?</p>
<p>I think if you got PR and 5 steps to a 5 you could get a 5 without a book. Just to tell you this year I used The earth and its people and although it can be dry at times, its a really good book</p>
<p>Well saying that AP World Curriculum is based off of "World Civilizations" by Sterns, that would be the best book to use. I used it for my AP World Class and I felt like a genius going into the test.</p>
<p>Thanks. I've just read a lot of bad reviews for that textbook ;_;. We'll see what happens though =]</p>