<p>believe me I have bought and used REA and Barrons and Princeton REview</p>
<p>Usually barrons or Princeton Review are pretty good and they generally cover the same material, when looking for a book to buy between those two I reccomend looking to see which review section is longest and buying that. </p>
<p>REA sucks. it has a lot of material in the book which is not really relevant to the test. For example, the AP Euro REA book had info on the different sultans of turkey
Don't buy REA, you'll just waste your time with a lot of needless memoization of useless facts</p>
<p>As for AP bio, I had the Curtis/Barnes textbook but used Phil Pack's Cliffs Notes to Review. This is the only subject where I would reccomend forgoing Princeton Review and Barrons in favor of Cliffs Notes</p>
<p>Take my advice with a very small grain of salt. I am an AP National Scholar(junior year) and consider myself an AP veteran</p>
<p>Barrons are usually textbooks with "Barrons" written on it. Online notes are usually very good. Another series you shouldn't overlook is "Cliff's Quick Review." Although not specifically designed for APs, they cover the material very well, especially US History and Statistics.</p>
<p>I think for APs if you know the material well from class you should do well. If you don't have a good teacher, you should probably study in advance.</p>
<p>tetrahedr0n- thats whats so awesome about campbells! i love it. i use it for usabo and i used it when i took ap bio. its the coolest book ever, i read it in my spare time for fun! lol i have a bunch of it memorized. hopefully it helps me get ahead for my major.</p>
<p>5 on US History. I used Barrons to do some practice questions, but basically, I just kept up with outlines during the year. Wow- I didn't realize that there are only 6 wks left until AP exams-- got to get going! I'm taking the AP Spanish and AP Bio exams... any prep books anyone found extremely helpful?</p>
<p>I'm very confident that I'll get a 5 on the AP calc AB exam as well as the AP eng lit according to my performance patterns--also, my teachers say they are quite certain that I will.</p>
<p>...though I'm very concerned about bio. the class is the downright horrible. the teacher is incredibly smart and knows biology like the back of his hand, and so close to a ph.D., but the guy doesn't know how to teach the class. he excessively picks on students to recall minute details and daily yells to the class about how frustrating it is to be a teacher, while often failing to clearly present to us all the information and address all the questions we have. numerous times I have asked a question which, in attempt to answer, he simplified to either a very basic question or another question altogether which does not help at all. As well, the teaching pace fluctuates--we'd spend so much time on one subject and then zip through another, all to find out that (as indicated by previous students) there were several broad topics not covered, such as ecology. As for another biggie, my ap bio book is older than I am. it was published in 1987...and I was born in 1988. it is so freaking old, outdated, and boring.... but enough whining.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering if you guys think that if I buy the Cliff's ap bio book would be enough to get me a 3 or 4 on the exam? Because by now I'm at least somewhat familiar with the information, but I need to delve deeper and be refreshed with it all. I bought the princeton review but I honestly don't like it. there are tons of misspellings and messed up pictures...</p>
