<p>What's the best textbook for AP Chem?</p>
<p>Add a + for your vote, since I can't seem to be able to make a poll.</p>
<p>1.) Zumdahl
2.) Chang
3.) Brown
4.) Other</p>
<p>Anyone? come on...</p>
<p>1.) Zumdahl
2.) Chang +
3.) Brown
4.) Other</p>
<p>Me encanta zumdahl</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>1.) Zumdahl -
2.) Chang +
3.) Brown
4.) Other</p>
<p>A ton of people say Zumdahl is good, but I don't have personal experience with it so I can't say. Our school uses Chang though, and it's a pretty nice AP Chem text.</p>
<p>Chang is really good according to my AP Chem teacher. We use Brown, though.</p>
<p>Ok, so everyone is saying a different one, lol. Do you guys know what the overall consensus is among AP teachers? As in, which book is used the most often/the most successfully? Also, does it matter which editions I get? or do chem books tend to have very few differences between editions?</p>
<p>The newest edition of Chang is very good. There is a lot in it not on the AP, but it's very comprehensive and it's examples are really clear. Nice pictures, too.</p>
<p>we used zumdahl.</p>
<p>it was sweet.</p>
<p>only teaches stuff on AP test.</p>
<p>Our school uses Brown. I liked it a lot.</p>
<p>Wait, what? The Zumdahl we used had so much extra stuff in it that I wanted to kill my teacher for assigning the chapters on the Representative Elements. A week+ of wasted busy work, it was horrible. O_o</p>
<p>The book is good if you know what you need to study, but if you're going to try to get through the whole thing, don't bother. There IS a lot of extra stuff in there that isn't worth it. :P. Why would I ever need to know about (real) batteries and corrosion in relation to Electrochemistry?</p>
<p>I think the bext way to use Zumdahl would be to pair it up with Barron's (which itself goes into more detail than it needs to). Read through Barron's, take the tests one at a time, isolate the areas you really need work on, and THEN do the corresponding chapters in Zumdahl.</p>
<p>Our teacher wasn't that good, so that's pretty much all I did this year. Self-study AP Chem in class, hah.</p>