<p>Hey I'm taking the late testing date for AP Bio and am trying to decide between Barrons or Cliffs review books. I'm a great crammer and both seem to be same length.</p>
<p>From what I have heard, Cliffs is the bible of bio whereas Barrons is overkill on the info. </p>
<p>If you can absorb lots of info and real life examples, is Barrons more useful for the FRQs? I only question shifting to Barrons because of the amount of detail it has and the fact that my strength is comprehension.</p>
<p>Is Barrons that useful, or just pointless detail?</p>
<p>just use cliffs. period. dont settle for barrons..cliffs should be able to get into enough detail but wont be overkill like Barrons. plus, for the FRQ, as long as you have the main criteria then you're fine.</p>
<p>um actually i dunno, Cliff's wasn't that helpful for me, but that's because my knowledge from class ended up extending far beyond anything Cliff's (and the AP) covered, however, I have a couple friends who just used Cliff's, never took the class, and got a 5 on the AP. so there you go.</p>
<p>Thanks, I've used cliffs for Bio tests all year and its been great.</p>
<p>However, with the APUSH exam I thought I was totally prepped with Cliffs but got rocked on some of the detail questions. Thats why I am hesitating between the two books. </p>
<p>I would just rather overprepare than be wishing later...</p>
<p>Cliffs is a lot less work than Barron's in my opinion, but gets you as equally prepared. You could go to your local library and get both for free since I don't think anyone has them checked out AFTER the AP Bio test.</p>