Barron's APUSH Book

Test Preparation
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<p>How is it? Another student informed my apush teacher that he and I owned a REA book and she said it was "rather cumbesome" and will "weigh me down" during this last month of studying. She also said that at all of the APUSH conferences she has been to, most professors did not mention REA. She talked to me privately and told me I should consider buying a Barron's apush book because it was quite similar to the exam, or buy a Princeton Review book. </p>

<p>Since our local bookstore does not have Barron's in stock, she offered to loan the one book she had to the other student and I to use and alternate on weekends. The idea I got from previous posts was that this book was bad for the history exam. Any other opinions or thoughts? I have the borrowed book right in front of me as I type, and it looks like a looooottt of practice questions/practice essays and a timeline basically. I didn't see much solid info. What do you think? Use both books? Is Barron's actually relevent to the exam? Would Barron's be harder than the exam?</p>

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<p>Anyone at all? Anyone to even post they've never given a crap about it and that I'm stressing too much ?</p>

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<p>I actually borrowed Barron's and thought it was terrible in presenting the material and tests. The chapters are basically essays written on a time period and a critic after each essay talking about how bad or how good it is. I don't recommend it. (PR's good though.)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response. I suppose I'll just give her the book back since I really don't have time to fool around with unnecessary practice. Only 36 days left till the AP exam :(</p>