<p>Which prep books and textbooks do you guys recommend specifically for self-studying?</p>
<p>Princeton Review is good. </p>
<p>As for textbooks, if you want something in between AP and normal high school, try Holt</a> Physics. It's better than it sounds.</p>
<p>Yikes, the book looks good but that's a pretty hefty price tag. I'll try PR though, thanks.</p>
<p>If you have time,you should use both PR and Barron's</p>
<p>Not barrons, total overkill.</p>
<p>PR and Kaplan for good concept explanations. PR has better practice problems.</p>
<p>to give you reality of the situation...i really don't think physics can be self-studied.. especially from PR, Kaplan, or Barrons...</p>
<p>I am in AP Physics and took the test in May. It was hard. Less than 700 for sure. I studied PR a lot and yet did poorly. So, I dont know but unless you're a genius or one of those people, I'd say it will be a very, very tough thing to do.</p>
<p>Not to hijack the thread, but since I hate making new threads -- anyone have any suggestions for self-studying Chem?</p>
<p>I'm gonna try to prepare over the summer; I'm gonna need to take a science SAT II and I'm not taking AP Bio and Chem until next year (and I don't remember anything from freshman year Bio or sophomore year Chem!) I chose Chem over Bio for no real reason other than that I plan on studying with someone else, and he took Bio this year. ~___~</p>
<p>If you have time, I'd go out an get an AP-level chem textbook (Atkins, Zumdahl etc) and at least read through it, if not do some practice problems. </p>
<p>Otherwise, Barron's is the most thorough of guides, with somewhat ridiculous practice tests. I just took a practice AP and found the MC (section I) of the AP Chem test to be remarkably comparable to the SATII Chem one. So you could get additional practice from AP chem tests (accessible from AP central) or even USNCO stuff...but that's really if you ran out of practice material from sources like Barrons/PR/Sparknotes.</p>
<p>The concepts covered for the more complex equilibrium situations like acid-base/solubility/electrochem are pretty basic (this past SAT2 had nothing on electrochem/solubility at all...and maybe 1 question on acid-base titration). So if you happen to remember stoichiometry + gases etc, thats a large portion of the tests.</p>