<p>The amount of information in the Princeton Review seems like it's a LOT less than what's in REA. In your experience, is most of what you need to know included in the Princeton Review? Would REA leave you about the smae, better prepared, or overprepared?</p>
<p>For what it's worth, I read the Princeton Review summary the night before and did a couple practice questions on the way to the test last year and got a 5.</p>
<p>All the information you need should be there.</p>
<p>REA would leave u in a way confused. If you are good at memorizing, (unlike me) u shoud go for REA/AMSCO (Overprepare), but it seems like... there isnt much time left for that.</p>
<p>Ya there isn't much time... REA is a HUMONGOUS book. In that case I would go PR.</p>
<p>yeah but rea has 6 practice tests that take up like half the book. so its not really as long as it seems.</p>
<p>I have both REA and PR, and since the APUSH exam is in less than five days, I'm going to read the PR summary instead of REA's. I feel like REA is for studying over a long period of time, so it's very detailed, while PR is more condensed and gives you the essentials if you are a bit short on time.</p>
<p>BTW, leah377, was that all of the studying you did for the APUSH exam?</p>
<p>Bump bump...</p>
<p>I am only studying PR, hadn't even heard of REA until coming on here. </p>
<p>Last year I read the Princeton Review summary and did some practice tests for AP Euro and got a 5. However last year, my AP Euro teacher was far, far better than my APUSH teacher. We haven't reviewed in class for APUSH at all. So I'm going to go over my class notes in addition to PR and practice tests.</p>
<p>Yep--I read the summary and did some questions on the way there in the car..oh and went to two of my teacher's review sessions..the test really is not that bad if you've like..done homework through the year.</p>
<p>Kaplan is awesome -- i started studying around February and got a 4 with that book</p>
<p>I read Kaplan and REA. Both were pretty good. REA is shorter.</p>
<p>i'm not as scared for the mc as the frqs. i need stuff to work off of! lol.</p>
<p>actually..the perfect combination for me is AMSCO and PR. AMSCO gets down to the facts and analyzes the social, economic, and political aspects of events...which is A HUGE part of what you need to know for both mc questions and esp dbq/fr. PR gives a really good overall review. btw, what's the curbe on apush??</p>
<p>i meant <em>curve</em> lol</p>
<p>REA!! it rocked.. yes, its very detailed but it helps a lot! princeton is probably too general, and plus i used that last year for world history n only got a 2.. soo yeah use rea.. if u want higher than a 3 anyway.. oh but rea doesnt give much prep for the esssays...frq or dbq.. better get another prep book for that.. but for the rest- i'd suggest rea!</p>
<p>AMSCO all the way! lol. it's hard to find it though in local bookstores since borders doesn't carry it...so you have to order from the amsco website</p>