How to Prepare for the AP United States History (Barron’s How to Prepare for the Ap United States History Advanced Placement Examination)
This manual’s extensive subject review has been updated to encompass historical events to the present year. In addition, the author offers advice on how to answer the essay question, provides two full-length model exams with all questions answered and explained, and presents additional practice and review questions, giving students complete preparation for the Advance Placement Exam in U.S. History.
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this book is pretty good, and it has a nice chronology of events in the back. nevertheless, the chronology lacks some important elements, and the book contains very little review of the course (other than the chronology). There is only one practice test, and generally i prefer to have multiple tests, and there is no diagnostic test. There are numerous practice questions, which are pretty good, but I personally felt this book could really use more course review.
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I disagree completely with the other reviews! This book definitely was a huge part of me securing a 5 on the AP Exam. If you are student who did what they were supposed to do throughout class and are really looking for a test prep to be used as a test prep and not as a textbook because you didn’t study during the year, you’ll definitely get what you are looking for in this book! It tweaks your test taking skills and gives you insight into the AP Exam that the other test preps don’t (and I know because I have four AP US History Prep Guides).
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This book was very disapointing. It has only 1 practice exam. But the main dissapointment for me was that there is no review of the material. It says things like “Among those items you should consider in studying these years are:” followed by a list of topics. It provides no actual review of the events at all, which is what I was really looking for. I wanted a book to sum up the text book, but this book really had no information beyond telling me what to study. The only part of this book that I found relatively useful was about 50 pages that was a “Chronological Summary of Major Events and Developments in US History.” It listed names of people, with one sentence discriptions, as well as dates. It also has important topics with a 3-4 sentence explanation. But even in this section, it says things like “Some important individuals of the period are:” Followed by a three column list of about 50-75 names of people that were important to the period. Knowing they were important is completely useless without knowing WHY they were important.Overall, this book was very dissapointing. Don’t buy it!
Review by Upal Hasan for How to Prepare for the AP United States History (Barron’s How to Prepare for the Ap United States History Advanced Placement Examination)
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I bought this book to review for my AP Exam, but unfortunately it didn’t prepare me at all. I mean, it does a good job by explaining the different types of essay questions that may appear but that is all. There is only one Pracitice Exam and a few multiple choice sections. I really didn’t like the outline either… Instead of getting this book, I would recommend the REA addition which contains 6 practice tests and a COMPREHENSIVE review of almost every event in U.S. history. After getting the REA book, I never touched this book after. Although, I haven’t recieved my AP Exam grade (for some mysterious reason), I know for a fact that the REA book helped me prepare more than this one.
Review by Robinhood for How to Prepare for the AP United States History (Barron’s How to Prepare for the Ap United States History Advanced Placement Examination)
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My mom bought this book so that I could study for the AP U.S. History test, but I was a bit disapointed. I was hoping to get a thourough review of history, but instead, the sections on historical time periods list only questions that you SHOULD know the answers too without giving you the facts. For every chapter, there is a sample student essay with teacher critiques. Reading one or two essays might be helpful, but reading student essays won’t help me to understand the history. I am already a good writer. What I need is to review the facts.My Thompson’s/Peterson’s SAT II Prep book has been much more helpful since it includes concise summaries of key people and events for each time period (even though I bought it to study for a different test). This book is helpful in learning how the test works and has some useful practice questions, but if you want to review the history, this is not the book for you.