<p>What are the best books for the following AP courses:</p>
<p>Biology
Calculus BC
English Literature
Statistics
Spanish Language</p>
<p>Please post only if you've taken these tests before, and used specific test-prep materials (and post your scores too...)</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>
<p>Biology- Cliffs, without a doubt
Calculus BC- hm, Princeton Review is pretty good, not sure though
English Literature- I'm doing Lang right now so I have no clue
Spanish Language- the 5 Steps to a 5 is decent, although I recommend heavy weekly reading from your textbook + grammar review instead
Stats- again I recommend the 5 Steps</p>
<p>Check out the Amazon reader reviews, they really help.</p>
<p>AP World History - ?
AP Human Geography - ?</p>
<p>So many choices, so little time?</p>
<p>how about AP Euro?</p>
<p>If you go to Amazon.com you can type in an AP Test Prep book and read all the reviews on different AP books. I took AP Bio last year with princeton review and I got a four. I read the book twice. I think I got lucky though, because when I left the test I felt like I got a two or maybe a three. I don't know if that helped you though. I heard the cliff notes Bio is really good though. AP Literature I am taking this year and I hear that 5 steps to a 5 is a good book. I also got the cliffs ap lit and the rea lit (I have a really bad teacher so I am doing extra studying for this test). I have a great AP Spanish language teacher, but I bought a book anyway. I got the princeton review book.</p>
<p>I haven't taken the exams yet, but I'm using Cliffs for Bio, Barron's for Stat, and PR for Calc BC.</p>
<p>If you have time, search the forums; people have asked many times about test prep books, and some of the old threads are really helpful.</p>
<p>AP Physics C ??? anyone? and what about English Language?? and AP Chemistry???</p>
<p>I took AP Euro as a sophomore, and I recommend Modern European History by Birdsall S. Viault. </p>
<p>It wasn't written specifically to "prep" for the AP Exam, but it condenses the things covered in a stand textbook into a more palatable form. I used this in conjunction with the textbook, and often read it instead of the textbook (when short on time.) Everybody in my class called it the AP Euro "bible"</p>
<p>Using this as a long term supplemental should be more beneficial than a 2 week crash course review with other books, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Score: 5</p>
<p>I used Barrons in Stat and got a 5. I was very pleased with the explanations to the answers, but I didn't use any other books so I can't really offer any direct comparison. If you study regularly and keep on top of your course work, you're going to do well regardless of which prep book you use.</p>
<p>AP Physics C ??? anyone? and what about English Language?? and AP Chemistry???</p>
<p>which ones are good for both micro/macro Economics, calculus AB, English Literature and physics B?</p>
<p>AP Chemistry- I worked through PR and used CliffsAP to review the labs... ended up getting a 5 (of course, I'd read through the Zumdahl textbook, too).</p>
<p>My english teacher said that Cliffs was good for AP Language.</p>
<p>Barrons for Stats, definitely. Our teacher uses it in preparation for all the students.</p>
<p>I've never used anything except Barron's, and i've got all 5s so far... so I'd go with that! =)</p>
<p>The thing with Barron's is that they tend to overload you with a lot of information, so it's kind of scary when you're studying because you feel like theres SO much to know and you can't possibly learn it all. For the maths and sciences especially, the multiple choice at the end of each section teaches just as much info as the reading before it, so just know that going in and don't panic when you don't know the MC answers. I didn't read too thoroughly, but I skimmed most of the text and the MCs, and it worked for me...</p>
<p>Oh and btw, the new barron's (white cover) books are REALLY good, so if you can, definitely get those instead of the old ones (gray cover)!</p>
<p>Macro Economics=Princeton Review. Without a doubt. You can't really expect to learn econ through a review book though.</p>
<p>AP Physics C ??? anyone? and what about English Language?? and AP Calculus BC???</p>
<p>how about US History?</p>
<p>REA for all history APs</p>
<p>USH--PR is good for a condenced version.
Econ--PR is also good, but might be sketchy ( i agree with bjcdb on this thou)
Physics--if both try PR.
REA was good for euro, though their test questions were very bad. A bit too much information at times.<br>
I heard AP Psychology was best with Barron's</p>