Hello!</p>
I am going to take AP Econ this year and planning to purchase two prep books (Barrons, 5 Steps, PR, etc) for this subject. What prep books should I buy?</p>
<p>From reviews I would purchase PR and 5 steps to a 5. BUT, I have bought both and I like both even though I have never even looked at a Barrons. I have read reviews on Amazon that Barrons is not good enough.</p>
<p>What I recommend: Buy all three books on Amazon and return the one that you don’t like.</p>
<p>Is this a regular class or is it online?</p>
<p>It is a regular class…I just found out Barron’s AP Econ from my library. I am going to purchase PR and 5 Steps to a 5. </p>
<p>I really envy students who live near a library that has many study guides…</p>
<p>You don’t need 3 prep books.</p>
<p>I didn’t need 3 prep books and I self-studied. I didn’t even need two prep books. Just get 5 Steps. If your teacher is decent or you have the will to read through the book carefully, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>@4khaos, In your second sentence you said that you self-studied. Then in your last sentence you mentioned a teacher? I thought self-studied meant that you buy a prep book + (optional) textbook and you read through them until the exam?</p>
<p>^I didn’t have a teacher; AP Econ isn’t offered at my school. However, OP does have a teacher since OP is taking a class. Yes, self-studied means just that - studying by yourself.</p>
<p>I have been heard that many colleges started to put less importance on actual scores of AP, and instead focused on actual academic grades and AP teachers’ recommendation letters…If my dream college do not consider AP scores as part of admission rate, then is taking AP exams pointless></p>
<p>If you are taking AP Exams solely for the purpose of “impressing” admissions, then yes, taking them is pointless. That’s not the purpose of AP Exams.</p>
<p>4khaos, How are we going to impress admissions then? I live in Hudson, WI we don’t have very much EC opportunities. Oddly enough our Valedictorian this year was accepted into MIT,Stanford,UC Brekely and Harvard. He ended up going to a University of Wisconsin school because he couldn’t afford to go to those universities.</p>
<p>BTW, I am really into economics.The plan was to take exams for AP Env. Sci and AP Psych.</p>
<p>AP Econ is a joke XD just study the PR and you’ll be fine.</p>
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GPA, class rank, classes taken relative to classes available, SAT/ACT score, and essays are all important, I’m sure. At least, colleges say they’re important. What colleges usually also say are that AP scores aren’t used for admissions. (That probably doesn’t mean you can go around failing AP exams without them noticing, but it probably means it won’t make your application go in the reject pile just because you got a 4 in Chemistry and Calculus.)</p>
<p>EC’s are also something many colleges stress heavily, and the thing is, the best EC’s seem to not be things you have opportunities for, but things where you create the opportunity to do them. While I hold a cynical view that being a leader of a club or organization is generally meaningless (the ones I’ve seen don’t do anything!) colleges seem to view it as an exemplary display of leadership. </p>
<p>Anyway, I’m not saying you should start a club for the sake of impressing admissions either. There’s tons of people doing a huge variety of EC’s, and while there are threads that try to “rank” EC’s in terms of impressiveness (which you can search for if you want), I think it’s just better if you just pursue what you want to do. That alone can lead to unique EC’s that others might not have because they’re busy founding “generic club #54 that does community service and promotes integrity, leadership, and respect”.</p>
<p>AP Econ is so easy! (took it this year, got a 5, but I took the year long class for AP-microecon since my school doesn’t stick micro-macro into one class)</p>
<p>I bought Kaplans and our teacher let us borrowed 5 steps to a 5, Kaplan’s is fine but I think 5 steps to a 5 had some really nice, challenging problems</p>
which ap econ book is best for review like, say, for a test? i need a book that i can study for a few hours and be prepared for the test the next day. for example, cliffsnotes for ap chem is pretty good for preparing for the ap and class tests. so is cliffsnotes ap lit. hopefully there is something like this for econ