<p>Which ones are the best? </p>
<p>Also, if it helps, my main textbook is the one by Campbell, 7th edition, with a weird curly thing on the front. </p>
<p>Thanks!(:</p>
<p>hmmm I took AP BIO last year and I used Princeton Review and CliffNotes last year, both are very good, but Cliffnotes is a bit more detailed Also, my teacher gave me some book that basically condensed the entire Campbell book into note form, which was nice.</p>
<p>^I agree Cliffs is the way to go and our teacher gives us all PR books for review.</p>
<p>Cliffnotes is definetly the way to go. I got at least a raw score of 82 out of 100 on the MC, and I killed the essays. I am absolutely sure that I aced that test thanks to Cliffnotes.</p>
<p>I’m taking AP Bio next year as well and I head that Cliffnotes is great. I used it last year for Chemistry and it was a great help as my teacher wasn’t that great. I’m hoping it’ll do the same for Bio!</p>
<p>i used a combination of barrons and cliffnotes …it it was greatt</p>
<p>thanks guys(: </p>
<p>tonytet- would you happen to know the name of the book with the campbells notes/where to get one? thanks!</p>
<p>Barron’s is the way to go, especially with the Campbells edition because it lines up similarly</p>
<p>thanks (:
hmm, any online resources that you guys know of?</p>
<p>Has anyone used 5 steps to a 5 for Bio? I wanted Barron’s and CliffsAP, is there any point to getting 5 steps? I would also be self-studying.</p>
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<li><p>[UCCP</a> Open Access - AP Biology](<a href=“http://www.ucopenaccess.org/course/view.php?id=8]UCCP”>http://www.ucopenaccess.org/course/view.php?id=8)
A site from the University of California that serves more of an outline of the material covered in AP Biology. I’ve looked at it and it seems that there is a lot of good content here.</p></li>
<li><p>[Free</a> Online MIT Course Materials for High School | AP Biology | MIT OpenCourseWare](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/biology/biology/]Free”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/biology/biology/)
This is what i’m using to supplement my study this summer. There are FREE videos from MIT taken from an introductory Biology Course that covers what most high school students will cover in AP Biology. It’s definitely more in depth but still, good content and information.</p></li>
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<p>[AP</a> Biology Resources | Course-Notes.Org - Outlines, Notes, Vocabulary, Essays, DBQs, Practice Quizzes and much more!](<a href=“http://www.course-notes.org/Biology]AP”>AP Biology Notes, Outlines, and Labs | CourseNotes | CourseNotes)</p>
<p>thank youu (:</p>
<p>Cliff Notes all the way, my teacher would print out copies and use it to teach us some of the topics. If you actually read Campbell, though, it has everything you need to know.</p>
<p>Cliffs is great, though I didn’t try any others. I got a 5 with it 
Just flipping through it the day before and randomly absorbing information evidently did the trick.</p>
<p>I used the same textbook, only the 6th edition. They’re all the same, just the sections are differently arranged. The textbook really was a pain…didn’t help at all in the class or for the test.</p>
<p>I’m planning on self-studying and I have a textbook, not campbell’s 
. I was thinking of getting Cliffs and Barrons. Would this be enough? I was also thinking maybe 5 steps to a 5… What do you recommend?</p>
<p>thankss(: </p>
<p>annieface, i totally think that the texbook is a pain, too!
i tried reading it for the first time today, and found that it has all these obscure instances of rather pointless fluff.</p>
<p>Cliffs and Princeton are the way to go. And I had that textbook too, it’s a nice one.</p>
<p>5 easily with those two.</p>
<p>The textbook really goes into details you’ll NEVER need to know.
We had quizzes in class every time (it’s an alternating block class, so it was every other day), and I would just study the notes the night before. The notes my teacher had were great…reading the book just filled your head with superfluous information.
For this one quiz at the beginning of the year, I decided to read the book, figuring it wouldn’t hurt to do so. Everyone but me said it was easy because I was so confused from reading the book. It was my lowest score all year on a quiz. >:o</p>
<p>I would go with Cliffnotes ; I just purchased the book and it is a great rad and have been told it has everything you need. Also called the Bible to AP biology</p>