<p>I guess this is self-explanatory. I'd appreciate any suggestions or comments.</p>
<p>if you plant to study with it all year long, then use Barron's.
Otherwise, I think PR's is nice.</p>
<p>thanks, fewfdsagdsag</p>
<p>what's the difference between the barron's book and the princeton review book?
also, I plan on taking the class in school, so I'd use the book to review, to take practice tests, and to teach myself anyting that my class left out</p>
<p>in that case, I would use Barron's book. . .
I took AP Stats last year and I used Barron's and got a 5 on the AP exam. . .I think Barron's is over-comphrensive, which is nice because you can use it as a textbook. . .furthermore Barron's specific book gives you a lot of details that you need to get a five on the AP exam. . .from what I gather, PR's books have really nice summaries and reviews, which I don't think you really need that much of because you're going to take the class year-long. . .
btw, if you want to really score well, make sure you get the details right. Statistics is one of those classes that need good teachers. The concepts are pretty easy, but there are so many details that you need to get right in order to score well (Barron's covers almost all of these details. . .). For example, when you write a hypothesis (you'll learn about these), you need to define your variables in both mathematical terms AND in words. I am 99% positive that if you don't do the latter, you will not get a 5. This detail is something that teachers might forget. (My stats teacher one year forget to emphsize this, and nobody got a 5 that year.) Practice is also important with Stats, because you need to right pretty quickly on the free response sections.</p>
<p>thanks a lot, that's really helpful
i think i'm going to go ahead with barron's</p>
<p>any other suggestions from anyone?</p>
<p>i used pr and got a 5. i thought it was a great review book</p>
<p>trckrazie88, thanks for the help</p>
<p>do you think that princeton review covered all of the information you needed to do well the test, even though it's not as comprehensive as barron's?</p>
<p>If you have all year, use a textbook.
This thread might help you:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=76716&highlight=Statistics%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=76716&highlight=Statistics</a></p>
<p>thanks for all the input</p>
<p>I'm still open to more suggestions.</p>
<p>are you self-studying? if so, use barron's - it's probably more thorough than pr. if not, use your textbook as well as pr.</p>
<p>thanks
i will be taking the class, so I'll need the prep book to review and to make sure that my class covered everything.</p>
<p>My stat teacher said that Barrons was too complicated...she recommended AMSCO (order off their website). But I didn't really use any books; she gave us copies of old tests, and that was the most helpful (I got a 5)</p>
<p>what math do you need to know before ap stats</p>
<p>LOL. . .math??
Umm. . .you need to know how to add, subtract and use your calculator.
I think you might need to know how to transform exponential data into linear data, depending on your class, but it's not needed for the AP exam (unless they changed it. . .)
the rest of the things you either learn in class or you do by calculator. . what's hard is learning the details and the really
big concepts</p>
<p>At our school, you have to take Algebra 2 before you can take AP Stats.</p>
<p>In my school you can take stats after Algebra 2 and Geometry...though I don't think geometry is necessary at all, that's how it works at my school <em>shrug</em>
I took it after precalc, simultaneoulsy with Calc BC but stat requires so little math, just plug and chug into your calculator basically.</p>
<p>Well someone taking geometry in eleventh grade may not have been well prepared to take statistics that year.</p>
<p>PR book + 2 weekends (no class) => 5</p>
<p>Our class used Barron's practice tests and I picked up a copy of PR = 5.</p>
<p>Hecatonchires,</p>
<p>what did you think was more helpful, barron's or princeton review?</p>