15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Perfect, January 21, 2010
This review is from: Cracking the AP Calculus AB & BC Exams, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation) (Paperback)
This guide is easy to read and perfectly tailored for the AP exams. I hated my actual textbook because it was so verbose.
This has simple straightforward explanations, no messing around. All material is covered plus practice exams.
It helped me get a 5 on the AB test. Need I say more?
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Good Lessons; Weak Tests, May 10, 2010
This review is from: Cracking the AP Calculus AB & BC Exams, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation) (Paperback)
If you're looking for a lucid explanation of the topics on the AP Calculus tests, good-o. You're set.
If you're looking for practice tests to help you prepare, go elsewhere ... the AB practice tests in this book were full of simplistic, one-step questions. The actual test has multi-step, multi-concept questions.
-AP Calc teacher in Minnesota
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Good practice., May 31, 2010
This review is from: Cracking the AP Calculus AB & BC Exams, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation) (Paperback)
I had a series of AP Calculus books to prepare for the exam. I ended up using Princeton Review's tests the most. I completed all five practice exams, sans the open-ended. For the open-ended, I would advise to go to Collegeboard's AP Central and print out and do all of the free response there. The AP Calculus test always has the same kind of problems, and looking at these problems directly from the source is more helpful than Princeton Review's odd open-ended questions that try to mimic Collegeboard questions. Nonetheless, the style of multiple choice is close to Collegeboard's, which is great.
The explanations to the questions were lengthy and lucid, and they actually helped me to understand what went wrong and what I should do next time. Quite possibly the best explanations I've ever encountered in any review book I've used so far.
The "teaching" portion of this book was also lucid as well, but sort of boring. Some examples spanned over two pages, which was a little too much, even with the generous spacing of Princeton Review. (Though I don't know how you can make Calculus not boring..) The problem sets at the end were fine, just like multiple choice questions, except with no multiple choices to pick from; though they ideally should have included free-response questions as well, because the only free-response practice one sees in there are in the practice tests.
I RECOMMEND this product if you are interested in taking good practice tests.
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