Best review books?

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<p>I need to know the best review books for the following aps:
Ap environmental science
Ap physics b
Ap English literature
Ap calculus bc
Ap microeconomics
Ap macroeconomics
Ap us government</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>For all the APs, I recommend doing the last decade’s worth of free-response questions. </p>

<p>As for specific recommendations … I recommend Princeton Review and Crash Course for AP Environmental Science. Ignore all the extraneous environmental legislation found in the PR book and only review the legislation that’s in the CC book and you’ll be set. Also practice with the 1998 released APES exam (on the CB website).</p>

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<p>Do you think barrons is good for environmental science? I mean a lot of people disagree with pr in general. Do you personally think it could get me a 5? And do you know about the other aps?</p>

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<p>Barron’s (:eek:) is horrible for Environmental Science. Who disagrees with PR being a good choice for Environmental Science :confused:?</p>

<p>For US Gov. I know a lot of people recommend Crash Course.</p>

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<p>Just in general pr sucks. And barrons in general is usually good that’s why I was wondering. Did you take apes?</p>

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<p>Each review book has to be considered individually; making sweeping generalizations such as “pr sucks” gets people nowhere. Some PR books are acceptable - actually, many are - but some do just suck. I did take AP Enviro.</p>

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<p>Ok. I never used pr. How did you do?</p>

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<p>I did well. Ask me next month for my score.</p>

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<p>Okay. And you don’t know about the other aps right?</p>

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<p>If you need extra practice for the Lit m/c questions, there are two released exams on the CB website. </p>

<p>And if you need extra extra practice, the Kaplan SAT II Lit book is decent - there are 500+ practice Lit questions in there, which I found to be fairly representative of the released AP Lit exams (and the SAT II Lit exam, I might add). Basically, SAT II Lit = AP Lit without the essays. </p>

<p>For Calc BC I recommend Peterson’s. I’ve been self-studying BC so far (in preparation for my course next year) and I’ve found Peterson’s to be very helpful. Easy explanations, lots of practice. There are a few (easy-to-spot) misprints though.</p>

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<p>I’m going to be a senior next year. Do you recommend taking sat 2 lit?</p>

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<p>If you are exceptionally strong in literature, go ahead, and take it. I recommend taking a practice test or two first. One from the Kaplan book will do. So will either one of the AP Lit released tests.</p>

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<p>I’ll only answer the ones I took / am knowledgeable about.</p>

<p>AP Lit = Really hard to suggest a book for a class like this. It sort of measures how well your schooling in English has been holistically. Although, I found the Cliffnotes to be pretty useful to have. More importantly, I’d go over any real past AP practice exams for the m/c, and do past essay prompts for practice as the exam approaches. </p>

<p>AP Calculus BC = If you Google ‘Paul notes’ and use those notes for relevant Calc I / II topics you’ll be more than fine. I wouldn’t recommend any review book, but a good textbook to use would be Anton. </p>

<p>AP Micro/Macro Economics = Usually the general advice is either Barrons / PR, or a combination of the two is sufficient. I’d also look into “5 steps to a 5”. I used Barrons myself and it was fine, but I do think ‘5 steps’ is slightly better for this subject.</p>