Can I Self- Study for An AP Course without a Textbook for Environmental Science? Are only prep-books sufficient? I am currently a sophomore and my school does NOT offer APES. The textbooks are also very expensive.
Yes.
Buy used or other cheaper textbook on Environmental Science.
Sometimes if you look around the Internet you can find a pdf file of a textbook.
You can buy cheap, used textbooks online.
I got a 5 on the exam sophomore year without touching a single textbook! I just used Barron’s and Princeton Review and read the crap out of both of them and thinking back on it, I was definitely over-prepared. Review books are definitely sufficient if you choose the right ones and thoroughly read them. There’s also a lot of free study material/ released exams online.
same as picuberoot.
Why do students take AP ES exam? From what I have read here on CC, there is no bump for it with the colleges. Why not self-study some other subject?
@GirlChild because some people aren’t doing it for college admissions but are trying to get the credit, or Apes just interests them.
MPC6789: I know that that could be possible, and I am a huge advocate of knowledge for knowledge’s sake, and for doing that which is truly in one’s range of interest and not to impress an adcom, but something rather desperate in that original post makes me ask.
I would encourage a student to self-study something for which they had an organic interest, or, where they could say they possessed a storehouse of knowledge that could indeed provide for them some boost of credit in some area were they to sit for an exam, to brush up on terms and then take the exam.
APES seems one of the least likely to confer that any given student went beyond what was offered and took the initiative to expose themselves to something rigorous and/or built upon a foundation in the sciences that was already in place for said student.