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Summary: IT'S GOOD!
Review: I bought this book along with AP Calculus Princeton Commenting on the content of this book, I would agree that the questions are tougher. They are even tougher than the Princeton Review Problem Sets. My advice is that to use both books. The Princeton book is good for explaination and basic calculus Q's. The Barronn's is good for harder Q's and additional explaination to the (BC) parts of the book.
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Summary: a bit harder than actual test
Review: I bought two books, barrons' and Princeton's. The former was much harder to understand and contains more information than the latter. When I studied
Princeton's, I was relieved, but when I studied barrons I
became afraid that the test was really that hard. However,
when I took the real test, I found that the actual test
was more like Princeton's than Barrons'; and I got 5 on
the exam. I recommend you to buy this book for experiencing
the hardest questions that would be on the actual exam.
If you only use Princeton's, you may be frustrated to find
that there are some questions that aren't on the Princeton's
practice exams.
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Summary: Very helpful
Review: I had several sources to help me do well in AP Calculus AB. One of them was this book.
Finney, Demana et al. "Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic" just doesn't include enough problems. To boot, the presentation is pretty poor as too many images are bombarded at your eyes. Barron's includes a lot of extra problems for you to make sure you can apply what you know.
Provided that you work hard in class and outside, this book can help you get a five.
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Summary: The best cal prep book!
Review: I strongly recommend this book. It's not only good for test preparation, but also good for learning Single Variable Calculus. I'm sure that if you do all stuff in problem sets, you will score 5 on the actual test.
In Korea, differentiation and integration are required for all students, but textbooks that Korean students use omit some very important concepts(for instance, differential equations, L'Hopital's rule). Using concise explanations, this book helps me to understand calculus throughfully.
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Summary: A great buy
Review: I used the '98 edition of this book to study for the AP Calculus exam. This book, combined with a superb Calculus teacher at school, helped me receive a 5 on the Calculus AB exam. The practice problems at the end of each chapter are great and are very similar to the real thing. The practice tests are harder, but also helped me prepare. This book is great and helped me a lot,but I used it only to study for the multiple choice. I used old Calculus written answer questions to study for that part. I highly recommend this book, which is not only great for review but also good for self-study.
Rating:
Summary: Great, tough problems; poor, technical review
Review: If I could rate this book on the exercises it contains, I'd surely give it a 5 star rating. However, its review is purely pathetic - it uses technical terms that befuddle high school seniors like myself and summarizes tough concepts in cumbersome formulas, none of which are explained. In short, you'd most likely get more benefit reviewing from your textbook than you would with this. So, I reason, 5 stars for the sample exercises averaged with 1 star for the review gives 3 stars. I would thus recommend this along with W. Michael Kelley's "Master the AP Calculus AB and BC: Teacher Tested Strategies..." which really complements this book. Mr. Kelley's practice exercises are few and spread out, while his review is superior because he knows how a high school student best learns: with calculus explained in real English (though he beautifully manages to never make the student feel incompetent). So: For REVIEW, choose Mr. Kelley's book; for sample problems, choose this. Good luck preparing for the AP exam!
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Summary: Mark Sugi likes to study. Oooey, sticky icky icky.
Review: It has nothing to do with any book, it's all whether or not you're willing to work. The material is there. It has more concentration on AB than on BC though, which is not too positive, unless of course, you're not taking the BC exam.
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Summary: Don't buy this book!
Review: Last year for Calc AB, I relied mostly on my notes nd managed to get a 4. This year my teacher was horrible nd I actually tried to use this book to review BC material nd I could not understand it. I think I got a 3 or 4. The questions are way too difficult. Also, you can tell this book wont help you when you look to the explanation to understand a question and it gives a one sentence answer which means nothing. I used barrons for my SAT I math and got a 790. Most of its books are good, but this one surely isnt. You're better off with the Arco, CliffsAP, or even Princeton review. anything but Barrons!
Rating:
Summary: Pretty good
Review: The problems in this book are much harder than problems on the actual AP. I give it 4 stars mainly because it focuses on AB not BC. Also there are more multiple choice questions than free response. Good for multiple choice, but I would suggest Cracking the AP by the Princeton review.
Rating:
Summary: Don't buy this book!
Review: The review portion of the text was very good (4/5), but the practice test answer explanations were quite brief. What took me half a page of scrap paper was explained by the book in a sentence. If you're just looking for practice AP's, steer clear. For a general overview of single-variable calculus however, it's a decent choice to consider.
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