Barron's AP Chemistry [Paperback]

Neil D. Jespersen Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764140507 | ISBN-13: 978-0764140501 | Publication Date: February 1, 2010 | Edition: 5

Updated to reflect the most recent Advanced Placement Chemistry exams, this manual presents three diagnostic tests and three full-length practice exams, all with questions answered and explained. The author also presents additional routine and more challenging problems in every chapter. A complete review of AP chemistry topics covers the structure of matter, chemical bonding, states of matter, physical chemistry, chemical reactions, and other topics that appear on the AP exam.

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Six AP practice exams, including three diagnostics and three full-length practice exams

All questions answered and explained

A comprehensive review covering the structure of matter, chemical bonding, states of matter, physical chemistry, chemical reactions, and other AP exam topics

Study tips and test-taking strategies

Product Details

• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 5 edition (February 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764140507
• ISBN-13: 978-0764140501
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needlessly complex, covers necessary material., May 31, 2010

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Nicholas Andre (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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Not including the errors everyone else has mentioned, this book is needlessly difficult. The exercises it presents are much more complicated than the AP itself, furthermore many of the topics which the book tests you on are not actually on the AP. The morning of the AP I opened this book and found 3 random multiple choice questions on a page. I could not answer any of them. Upon taking the AP, I answered all of the questions but one confidently and received a 5. This book did nothing for me but scare me out of my mind and make me grab all sorts of weaponry to make war upon this test when I was fully prepared to take it. Waste of time and money. On the positive side it does cover all the material, but so does your textbook...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid review book but loaded with errors., February 6, 2010

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Arthur (Mountain View, CA) - See all my reviews

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I really like Barron's review books because their philosophy is that they teach you the subject matter. Princeton Review books on the other hand are about "cracking the test" and does offer good tips, but if I were to get one book, it'd be Barron's because learning the subject is the surest way to getting a good score. Having said that, the book is LOADED with errors and for that I deduct 1 star... anything from just typing the wrong character ("=" instead of '-') to wrong answers, wrong set-ups, decimal places in wrong place, missing decimal places... you get the idea. It's as if the whole Chemical Equilibrium chapter was edited by someone who wanted to sabotage the student. I am not kidding. But the thing is, if you reasonably know the concepts, you'd catch the mistakes because the mistakes are in the examples and not in the concept explanations. Don't be scared away because of the typos, but just know they are there. In the final analysis, it is still a valuable book to me and I like it despite its faults.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Riddled with errors, May 18, 2010

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S. Hubbard (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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Beware! The sample test questions and answers are riddled with errors. Within the first 7 questions of Diagnostic Test 1, 2 of the questions contain errors that make the "correct" answer incorrect. I suggest skipping this book. Get a good chemistry text (Chang's 10th edition) and study from that.