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Barron's AP Environmental Science with CD-ROM (Barron's AP Environmental Science (W/CD))

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This book has been very frustrating to read. I have found many errors, for example "life-life" (I think they meant half-life?), and many other typos. The content is too general. I know it's suppose to be a "review" book, but I feel like they could have built on ideas a little more. The review questions at the end of each chapter address things that either don't come up until the following chapters, or that don't even come up at all. In addition, some of the answers to the multiple choice questions are wrong! Overall, this book is not worth the money. My advice would be to go to the collegeboard webiste a purchase a more qualified review book there.

This book was well written, and has a good amount of visuals, which help a lot in understanding concepts in environmental science.
However good the book was, it didn't seem to reflect what was on the actual AP exam very well.
It claimed that pollution would be about 30% of the test, when really I only remember a handful questions on pollution. Also, not everything that was on the exam was covered.

So, it's good, but it didn't quite hit the mark for what the APES exam actually is and covers.

I am a tutor for AP Env. Sci. Some of the text is poorly written. Some of the practice questions don't even make sense. The review material doesn't touch on some of the practice questions. I don't know if any of the other review books are any better, but this one leaves a lot of room for improvement. Maybe next year's will be better.

The book is fairly well written. Gets to the point quickly, but I wish it was organized a little better. I heard that the 2006 version is a little better because it has more information. I guess the 2007 version was cut shorter to get to the point more.

my class was pretty comprehensive so i never found a need to use this book other than the required taking notes after each chapter. It's all good though.

My daughter uses this reference guide daily in APES. It is exactly what she needs. We'll see how she does on the AP exam, will let you know :-)