<p>What is the best Statistics AP review book? PR? Kaplan? Barron's?</p>
<p>I sorta used Kaplan the night before and got a 5. Honestly, nothing beats a good textbook you understand and a teacher that knows what they're talking about.</p>
<p>Barrons. I read through it once (didn't take the class) and got a 5. It has everything you need to know.</p>
<p>Barrons. I second that</p>
<p>I have the amsco book and it is amazing.... that may just be me.. but i like it</p>
<p>how hard is AP Statistics??</p>
<p>I heard AP Statistics is 'relatively' easy, but do not know how much time or efforts
it would take to selfstudy.
Anyone who did it by yourself??? (i want somthing like.. X hours a day for X months :-)</p>
<p>oh & if there is any, tell me about some a short cut (not textbook;;)!!
thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Well, my experience is a bit scewed since math is my forte, but I self-studied Stat last year (got a 5), and I would say I spent about 12-18 hours learning the stuff total (spread across a couple Saturdays for about a month), plus maybe 6 hours more to take practice tests and whatnot. All I did was read the Barron's review guide and get a copy of the mock AP from the Stat teacher at school.</p>
<p>feuler/ what math classes have you taken??</p>
<p>i would say, if any, math is my forte. as a senior i am taking Calc AB and planing on selfstudying BC part next semester. (i am in a big public HS and AB is the highest level math class it offers.)
but it's still very surprising you spent only a month to cover it up and still be able to get 5.
i have no background knowledge of "statistics"... did you have any beforeward ??</p>
<p>just a bit more experiences would be great.
Anyone else did self study??</p>
<p>I did Calc BC in 10th grade, and since then have take Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra, Number Theory, and Modern Algebra through EPGY (a distance learning program).</p>
<p>I didn't know any Stat per se beforehand, but I did know most of it indirectly. Much of it is just going in depth into probability, which I have done for contests and whatnot. The main reason it was easy to learn, I think, is that I do contests such as the USAMO, and am very good at getting to the core of a mathematical argument quickly, and that allows me to mentally come up with proofs and justifications for all the primary rules and theorems, so I was able to assimilate them very readily. Thus one careful reading of the review guide was enough to make it stick in my head.</p>
<p>Basically, Stat, like Calc, is essentially about four or five big concepts that you need to understand. If you understand those concepts intimately, all the details fall right into place. But if you don't get the big picture and only agonize over details, you're going to put a lot more time in than you need to, and probably not know it as well.</p>
<p>Bummmpppp. And what's the best AP Stats TEXTbook?</p>
<p>Another bump.</p>
<p>I did not use a prep book for statistics. Your textbook should be plenty fine. Make sure you know every test, and how to efficiently use your TI 83</p>
<p>Once you can do that, take some practice MC/FR tests. That's the best way to get a 5.</p>
<p>Princeton Review has never let me down!</p>