<p>I’m going to be self-studying AP Micro and Macro. I looked at some threads and found that the best book is Princeton Review. Are there any books that go indepth? For example, I found the Kaplan book for AP US History to be very helpful because of its explanations, as opposed to the Princeton Review, which sort of required background knowledge to understand some terms. PR was more of a quick overview of the material for me.</p>
<p>I’d also like to know what skateme has asked for. Are there additional books? I’m going to get the PR books soon, so I’d like to know other things I can get. This will be my first self-study (Both Macro/Microec.).</p>
<p>I took AP chem last year and I thought the PR book was great, though regretfully I barely used it :(</p>
<p>DO NOT USE REA FOR AP EURO. My teacher recommended it so that’s what everyone got. And everyone hated it. And no one will ever use another REA book again. It goes waaaay into details you will NEVER need to know, and the practice tests are IMPOSSIBLE. They really get you down, especially during the last couple of weeks when you’re taking practice tests to approximate your score. Unless you have a killer memory for the smallest details, you will not be able to get a raw score of higher than 50 on those practice tests, trust me. I never got an opportunity to find any better books, but you guys should look somewhere else, anywhere else!</p>
<p>Hi skateme,</p>
<p>At my school, AP Economics is only offered as an online independent study course, but the course recommends Barron’s to those enrolled in it. It’s not completely self-study, but it mainly is. Generally, Barron’s seems to offer a condensed, more detailed version that helps for self-studying while PR seems to be more of quick review to supplement an existing course or textbook. :)</p>
<p>tsubomi1993:</p>
<p>Thanks for the awesome answer!</p>
<p>For those of you self-studying Human Geography, is Barron’s all that you will be using? :)</p>
<p>Also, I self-studied AP Psychology last year (sophomore year). I read Barron’s once on the bus during Spring Break, reread it the night before the exam, and read the PR book the morning before the exam 
I ended up with a 5, and a lot of it is really intuitive and common sense. For example, on the frqs this year one of the subquestions was to define introversion and explain how it would affect performance in a competition. I pretty much wrote that it was the opposite of outgoing and that introverted people might be more prone to mistakes because they are nervous. So the point is, don’t sweat AP Psych too much :)</p>
<p>Any suggestions on material for AP Bio?</p>
<p>I heard that Cliffs is pretty wonderful (and in-depth) for Bio.</p>
<p>hey mullberrypie, I heard that barrons books are better if you took the class… I’m sure the other books are better for the test itself
Becoming a sophomore and taking:
World History (class)
European History (self)
Human Geography (self)
Environmental Science (self)
Stat (self)</p>
<p>abc123omg<3, I’m self-studying AP bio (my school doesn’t offer AP anything) and I’m using 5 steps to a 5, cliffs and this ap bio flashcard quicklet. They’re really thorogh and whatever info is missing from one book, the other book covers.
Anyway, good luck :)</p>
<p>^ i self studied bio this year and i used barrons and cliffs</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience/advice for self studying AP Comparative Government and Politics? I’m taking AP US Government next year, so I was wondering if it would make sense to self study this one…any good prep books?</p>
<p>Thanks SO much :)</p>
<p>^There’s this study guide by Ethel Woods which is the best one out there by far. Get the latest edition.</p>
<p>hey guys. my friend self studied apes and ap human geo. he passed both but crammed at the last minute (3’s on both) for the love of god do not start studying late!!!
give yourself a week or two (assuming u have extensive background knowledge like apush or apwh- for human geo) by hte last minute i mean literally the day before.</p>
<p>Junior Year:</p>
<p>AP Biology — Barrons/Cliffs
AP USH — AMSCO
AP Art History (self) — Annotated Mona Lisa/Gardner’s Textbook
AP U.S. Gov/Politics (self) — PR
AP ES (self) — Smartypants</p>
<p>Senior Year:</p>
<p>AP Physics C: Mech
AP Calculus AB
AP Micro
AP Macro (self)
AP English
AP Psych
AP Euro (self)
AP Human Geo (self)</p>
<p>Is this manageable?</p>
<p>ur junior year definitely sounds manageable. the only thing i’d be wary about is the art history on your list, i heard it’s a hard test.</p>
<p>runningwriter: I think your junior year self-studies will be pushing it a bit, esp. with your schedule next year. Not to mention that some of them are harder APs, but if you think you can do it then shoot for it. As for your senior AP self-studies, keep in mind that a lot of those won’t count for credit in college. So imo, just take the ones that count for college credit. :)</p>
<p>mulberrypie: Do you know of which APs I won’t get college credit for? (that’s really only the reason I’m self-studying). I kind of wanted to get National AP Scholar too. My school doesn’t allow anyone to take an AP before junior year and I only heard of self-studying this year. </p>
<p>For junior year, I’m doing APES (self) because I hear it works well with AP Bio and I’m doing AP Gov (self) because I hear it works well with APUSH. Then AP Art History just because it really interests me :)</p>
<p>Well, if you’re looking for college credit, I don’t think ES or Govt. and Politics would be of much help.</p>
<p>Is it possible to ace Stats using Barron’s and Barron’s alone?</p>