<p>What do people think of this course difficulty compared to calculus?</p>
<p>I personally enjoyed calculus but trust me, statistics is easy.</p>
<p>I wish I had self-studied rather than wasting a whole year's course. It's very elementary material. You just have to learn basic methods and remember some stat jargon. Using the TI-83 is the whole exam. If you can understand some basic stat principles stat is probably the easiest exam to get a 5 on. I don't think you need more than one solid prep book. Each chapter can be read in a few hours and I seriously think I could learn all the material in 1 week, 2 weeks if you want to go more in-depth.</p>
<p>In Calc everything is not textbook straight. I mean its real math, there are not any shortcuts. either you understand calc.. or u need to do a lot of practice problems until you get the concepts..</p>
<p>For stat, its pretty much just doing the same procedures over on different data. You learn about the different type of statistics tests that you can do and they all have the same concept, just different purposes. The most crucial thing you can study for is writing good conclusions and not messing up the jargon.</p>
<p>What book(s) would you use to prepare?</p>
<p>I'd go with Barron's just caus I personally feel more comfortable with Barron's. I really didn't review for Stat because I was too busy worrying for US History, but everytime I buy a Barron's book and read over half of it I do really well on exams. Unfortunately for US History Barron's has a like a bazillion essays without any info for MC so I ended up getting PR for that and reading the whole book the day before the exam(I skipped school that day). Normally I don't like PR(Meet Joe Bloggs!) but for APs(esp. history) they do a much better job of helping the smarter students succeed.</p>
<p>If you have the money, try a textbook.</p>
<p>Would you recommend any specific textbook?</p>
<p>We used this</a> book in my Stat class and I thought it was very thorough and well laid out. I would recommend it.</p>
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<p>Any college-intro to stat book would work.</p>
<p>slipstream99 that book looks good but its like 900 pages.. is it read quick?</p>
<p>I used the same book that slipstream did in my class and it was really good. You don't have to read all of it, but it lays things out pretty simply.</p>
<p>i used the same book slipstream and zantedeschia used and it worked out well for me. helped me get a 5.</p>
<p>I am thinking about self studying this as well(pending on my AP results from last year) and I want to know how much time do you think it would take up? If it takes a long time to study than I do not want to consider it.</p>
<p>Well I took a Statistics class at school, but it wasn't designated AP (only about 7 people in the class took the test). I thought it was pretty much my easiest class, I didn't do any outside studying and I'm pretty sure I got a 5.</p>
<p>My class used Introduction</a> to Statistics and Data Analysis, as one of the authors (Roxy Peck) was someone on the committee that helped bring AP Stats into existence and was also Chief Reader.</p>
<p>For review, we used Barron's, but it wasn't very good. The tests were extremely difficult and some of the questions were even a format the real AP test used. Princeton Review is a good review for the tests, but there's not much to really know.</p>
<p>It's an easy subject and an easy exam. I was expecting a three when before I took the test, but after taking it, I was confident I got at least 90% of the MC and FR correct. Oh, and I did get a five.</p>
<p>don't get kaplan if you're going to self study. it doesn't teach.</p>
<p>the practice of statistics is a pretty quick read. it's not dense at all and you could probably easily get through one chapter per week (you only have to go through section one of chapter 14 for AP exam)</p>