How to Prepare for the AP Calculus (Barron's How to Prepare for Ap Calculus Advanced Placement Examination) @ richardeward.com

How to Prepare for the AP Calculus (Barron's How to Prepare for Ap Calculus Advanced Placement Examination)
by Shirley O. Hockett, David Bock
from Barron''s Educational Series

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Good practice
  This was my only book for both the AB and BC Calculus exams. I ended up with 5's on both. However my success cannot be attributed solely to the book. My teacher was good and taught us from the very basics. This book serves only as a review, it cannot replace a proper textbook or teacher.

• The Best One Out There
  We actually buy this book for my AP class. Students are encouraged to first thoroughly go through our text, and then as a review, we go right through Baron's. I felt the Princeton book is too easy, whereas the Baron's book does a better (much better) job on prepartion and then gives slightly harder practice tests which is the correct way to prepare for the actual exam.

• Excellent practice and review
  This book has lots of sample tests and review questions that helped me a lot when I was studying for the AP Calculus BC exam. The review was very thorough and covered all of the material that was on the exam, and there was even material not on the exam (those are marked with an asterisk and you can safely skip over them). The sample exams were very helpful although the questions are slightly more difficult than those from the actual exam. The same types of questions (albeit easier) appeared on the actual... more info

• AP Calculus
  It's concise and clear for a review book. No use if you're LEARNING form it though, since it's designed to invoke and strengthen memory rather than to explain and teach. Great, challenging questions with good explanations.

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