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Barron's AP Chemistry 2008 (Barron's How to Prepare for the AP Chemistry Advanced Placement Examination)
by Neil D. Jespersen Ph.D.
from Barron's Educational Series

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Comprehensive but a lot of superfluous information
  Mastering all the contents of this book would guarantee you a 5, but is not always an easy thing to do. I bought this book 2 weeks before the test and found it extremely difficult to cram all of its contents (I have 100 in AP Chem)in such a short period of time. It was even more upsetting when the AP came out to be not even half as difficult.
  If you have a solid background of AP Chemistry and just need a review book that is concise with a lot of good practices, I would recommend Princeton Review. (... more info

• Thorough and hard
  I like the Barron's Chemistry because it is extremely thorough, almost like a textbook in its approach. The multiple choice questions are a lot harder than those that you will find in some other reviews, and hard is good. I actually taught review classes from this book, and found that it was remarkably complete.
  Caveat, there are a few errors here and there, but if you know what you are doing, you will catch them immediately. I have not seen a book that did not have a wrong answer or typo somewhere in... more info

• Excellent review but inaccurate practice tests.
  Overall, this review book is undoubtedly the best out there, for it is much more in depth than Princeton Review. Like every review book, however, it does contain its occasional errors such as stating 25 degrees Celsius is 300 Kelvin. As long as you're somewhat knowledgeable about chemistry topics, these errors can be overlooked. Regarding the practice tests, they seem to be much more difficult than the actual AP exam; it's probably best to just use past exams provided to you by your teacher. Nonetheless, if... more info

• not very helpful for AP chem
  there are so many mistakes
  that it's not even funny.
  i spent more time figuring out what's wrong in my calculation
  (and found out that the book is wrong)
  than actually studying for AP chem exam.
  The review is too much into details that it looks like a chem text book,
  not AP exam guide book.

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