Customer Reviews

Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap: Spanish (Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap Spanish Advanced Placement Examination) (Spanish Edition)

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This is easily the best preparation book ont he market that is easily accessible to students. Barrons has created a self-cintained study guide for this most (what can be) confusing and difficult exam. The book gives you so much practice in each exam area (sdhort dialogues, verb forms, critical reading, you name it). The training and practice I found for the picture sequence and directed response questions were simply perfect, and greatly helped w/ the exam. The practice excercises are probably a little harder than the actual exam, but if you work diligently out of this book, I guarantee that you will pass this test, I just need to wait until July to find my score. If I got the 4 or 5 I feel I got, Barrons was a great key. I highly reccomend this book.

Great for teacher prep. I've used this with my students and it preps them well also for the kinds of selections to expect on the exam.

This is about the most boring and dull AP prep book that I have encountered, and believe me, I have seen a lot of them. It gives you good practice and a lot of words to study, but is so boring! I mean, there is nothing in the book that helps you to at least try to focus on what you're doing. But maybe that's good for some people. It's very straightforward and it will give you more than enough practice. For example, to prep you for the speaking section, it offers a couple hundred(about three-hundred or so?) of possible questions that they could ask you. The tapes that are included are excellent. They really help you to practice for both the listening and speaking questions. So I don't know, this might be the perfect for some people, but as for me, this book was not just another one of those, argh, I have to study again type books, this was a bite the bullet and force myself to use book. I don't expect to be entertained or anything, but something that would occassionally keep me awake would be nice. By the way, the grammar review is not that great. It's not that long and at times, does not go as in depth as one would like. I passed the language exam, and whether or not its due to this book, I don't know, but I know that this book certainly did not elevate my knowledge to some divine level like some other test prep books have done.

this is definately the best spanish ap prep out there. i was pressed for time so i only reviewed the grammer section the day before the test and ended up with a 5.