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Title: How to Prepare for the AP Calculus by Shirley O. Hockett, David Bock ISBN: 0-7641-1790-4 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 28 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't buy this book!
Comment: Last year for Calc AB, I relied mostly on my notes nd managed to get a 4. This year my teacher was horrible nd I actually tried to use this book to review BC material nd I could not understand it. I think I got a 3 or 4. The questions are way too difficult. Also, you can tell this book wont help you when you look to the explanation to understand a question and it gives a one sentence answer which means nothing. I used barrons for my SAT I math and got a 790. Most of its books are good, but this one surely isnt. You're better off with the Arco, CliffsAP, or even Princeton review. anything but Barrons!
Rating: 3
Summary: Good review, terrible test answer explanations
Comment: The review portion of the text was very good (4/5), but the practice test answer explanations were quite brief. What took me half a page of scrap paper was explained by the book in a sentence. If you're just looking for practice AP's, steer clear. For a general overview of single-variable calculus however, it's a decent choice to consider.
Rating: 3
Summary: Great, tough problems; poor, technical review
Comment: If I could rate this book on the exercises it contains, I'd surely give it a 5 star rating. However, its review is purely pathetic - it uses technical terms that befuddle high school seniors like myself and summarizes tough concepts in cumbersome formulas, none of which are explained. In short, you'd most likely get more benefit reviewing from your textbook than you would with this. So, I reason, 5 stars for the sample exercises averaged with 1 star for the review gives 3 stars.
I would thus recommend this along with W. Michael Kelley's "Master the AP Calculus AB and BC: Teacher Tested Strategies..." which really complements this book. Mr. Kelley's practice exercises are few and spread out, while his review is superior because he knows how a high school student best learns: with calculus explained in real English (though he beautifully manages to never make the student feel incompetent).
So: For REVIEW, choose Mr. Kelley's book; for sample problems, choose this. Good luck preparing for the AP exam!
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Title: How to Prepare for the AP Physics C by Robert A. Pelcovits, Joshua D. Farkas ISBN: 0764118021 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 30 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cracking the AP Calculus AB & BC, 2002-2003 Edition (Princeton Review) by DAVID KAHN ISBN: 0375762221 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 29 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: How to Prepare for the AP Chemistry by Neil D., Ph.D. Jespersen ISBN: 0764120220 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cracking the AP Calculus AB & BC Exam, 2004-2005 (PRINCETON REVIEW SERIES) by David S. Kahn ISBN: 0375763813 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap Statistics: Advanced Placement Test in Statistics (Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap Statistics. Advanced Placement examination, Second Edition) by Martin Sternstein ISBN: 0764110918 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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