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Barron's AP World History

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This is a poor review book for the AP World History Exam. It has one main problem: it's way too long. While the review material is good and informative, it is simply too dense to be helpful. More isn't always better. To put it into perspective, this book has a 400-page review of world history. The AP Edition of The Earth and Its Peoples, a popular AP textbook, is 1000 pages. Once you take out the excess pictures, maps, and charts in the actual text, both books are approximately the same length. So, if you want a second textbook, this Barron's book is fine. Otherwise, it's not worth it.

A good review book for the AP Exam should boil down world history to the larger themes and trends, while providing not much more than the important and essential details. This book loses itself in the details and under-covers the larger themes (which the AP exam covers in depth). By regurgitating all of world history in 400 pages of dense text, the authors have failed to do their job.

Unless you want a second textbook, I don't recommend this book. This book really just hides behind its promise of an "extensive" and "comprehensive" review in order to shirk its responsibility to turn several thousand years of history into a concise, but helpful review. The authors should have spent their time writing more practice exams instead of reporting the minutiae of world history that the AP exam has never and will never test.

This book was really helpful when I was studying for my AP test last month! Even though it was a bit long and I didn't actually read it cover to cover, it had a detailed table of contents that made it simple to find exactly the information I was looking for. It explains things in a way that is easily understandable, and one of my favorite parts was that it had rubrics showing how each part of the test was graded and what to do to get full points. I don't think I would have survived without it, and I would most definitely recommend it.

I took AP World History last year. The Barron's book may not suit everyone but it was the most helpful book that I came accross. While the summaries of units were very long, the book included VERY HELPFUL UNIT TESTS, as well as practice topics for all three types of essays. The practice exams at the end of the book were slightly harder then the actual AP test but I thought that it was better to take the harder practice tests and then be pleasantly suprised while taking the exam. Overall, the book was the perfect choice for me; I would recommend it to anyone who wants to score higly and doesn't mind the extra reading.

The product arrived in great condition and it was clearly brand new. It was indispensable for my AP World History and it was so thorough with the subjects and time frames covered in the test I found it amazing. I can honestly say I got a passing score on my AP Test thanks to this book!

A very comprehensive look at world history - I used it to review for the FSE and I learned a bunch of other interesting things along the way. It gives enough of an overview of all the important world history events to offer a decent knowledge of what's been going on in the world, as well has how one thing can affect many.

As a student using this book for AP prep, it's been extremely helpful over the past few weeks. I do feel admittedly more prepared than I would without it. Many students I know have this edition of the prep book, so needless to say it is a worthwhile buy.

I completely LOVE this guide. I use Barron's every year for all my AP exams. It's more formal than some, but it's good if you synthesize in your head. It has lots of detail. If you pass the Barron's test, you pass the AP at least. I got a 5 when I used this for US Government and Politics and so far it's been a great review resource for midterms.

The book was in great condition but the description said slightly written on and when I recived this product nearly every page had some sort of note that a previous person had made on it and that ruined the book all of the practice tests were done and now I can't even completly study due to the markings in this book!

yo if you lookin for study guide for class, that ap test, or you wanna educate yo hoes dis is da book. Its got big words like sinification. I dont know what that means and I got a 4 on dat AP stuff and things. buy it playa.

The Barron series are the best for studying for the ACT. I have tried others, but always come back to Barron's.