<p>I'm a sophomore in the 2014/2015 school year and im not sure which ap bio review book to choose, some suggestions my teacher gave me are Princeton, 5 steps to a 5, Barons, Cliffs, etc. but i dont know which to choose or which version please help</p>
<p>im wondering also</p>
<p>Let me just tell you that you should NOT get Princeton. I studied Barrons, which has excellent diagrams, and tells you which part isn’t exactly necessary, Barrons, however, doesn’t have very good explanations for the labs. Cliffsnotes is better for that. But then again, I don’t remember seeing a single lab question on the 2014 exam…but then again, it might be different in the 2015 exam. My friends studied with Cliffsnotes, but Cliffnotes just has too many small letters cramped together in my case.I have not even seen the book AP Bio 5 steps to a 5, so I don’t know about that one. Most CCers seem to be using Barrons or Cliffs, however. Both prep books have a lot of detail that you don’t need to know for the AP exam, so don’t stress about memorizing the material. I didn’t listen to the same advice I’m giving right now before I took the test, but after I took the test I can surely testify that you do not need to memorize things…just know it. It’s a lot like CR in SAT I, actually.
I think reading your textbook (I read the whole Campbell book and took careful notes) really helps. Focus especially on a lot of the example experiments in each section, because you’ll need to analyze experiments for the AP exam and it’s good to get used to it. Hope this helps. </p>
<p>I used the Kaplan and got a 5…that being said, I wasn’t a big fan of it - I used Barrons last year for chem and I thought it was much better quality information.</p>
<p>In all honesty, all of the prep books I borrowed/used/looked through were crap. None of them matched up to the new test format. What I recommend, and is what I did, is get your hands on the 2 or 3 released exams for the new format, and study those hard. The exam was extremely similar to those tests, and i mean it. In fact, although the question was different, they reused an entire diagram. The test to be honest was common sense. I took a risk and didn’t study any super fine details, which was fine because there weren’t any.</p>
<p>I got a 5 this year btw</p>