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Arco AP Mathematics: Calculus AB and Calculus BC (Arco Master the AP Calculus AB & BC Test)

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I enjoyed working with this book. It contains a concise but detailed material that everybody should know when preparing for a AP or BC Examination in Calculus. The solutions to problems are short but complete. I found "authors notes" and "common errors" especially useful. Another good feature of the book are the problems that can be solved with a graphing calculators, which is the common tool for high school students.

I definitely disagree with the negative reviews of this book. When I was taking AP Calculus, this review book helped me extremely because it provided many examples of pitfall mistakes that all students make. It gives good excercise questions after every section. It is concise, but very very comprehensive. Furthermore, if you are keeping up with what is going on in your class this is the ONLY book I recommend. Some might feel that some sections are not explained too deeply; however, this is more than made up for by the great example questions that are clearly picked wisely. This book very much helped me in high school for class and the AP exam. It is a wonderful book to have if you are going to stop taking calculus after high school but sometimes want to look back at something for a quick review. A definite plus.

I was hired by ARCO to review this book in the face of mounting complaints that it was not useful as a review tool any more. I agreed that it, indeed, was not very good (see other review). So, they hired me to rewrite the book from scratch. My book is being released in January 2001: Mastering the Calculus AB and BC Tests, by W. Michael Kelley.

Not only is my book (also published by ARCO/Peterson's) comprehensive, it is also the only funny math AP prep book out there.