How to Prepare for the AP Calculus | 
| Authors: Shirley Hockett, David Bock
Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 768022
Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 624
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 7.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0764117904
Dewey Decimal Number: 515.076
EAN: 9780764117909
ASIN: 0764117904
Publication Date: February 28, 2002
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Product Description
This updated manual offers four practice exams in Calculus AB and four more in Calculus BC, all with answers and explanations. Extensive review sections cover functions and their graphs, derivatives and integrals, differential equations, sequences and series, and many applications. Students will also find important information about the AP testing program and guidelines for using a graphing calculator on the exam. Test-taking tips help students get higher scores.
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 Good practice September 15, 2008
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 January 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 January 1, 2008
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 exam. After studying for the exam using this book and old exams, I found the actual exam to be very easy, especially compared to the exam questions in this book. So if you feel unprepared and want to over-prepare to feel confident, I highly recommend this book.
AP Calculus January 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
good as a supplement to the class September 10, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a book that is best for final preparation for the exam. Last year, in BC Calculus, I was absent for the series and sequences lessons due to an illness and I came back for a test studying through the Barron's books and I had trouble understanding it. The tests are definitely a lot harder than the real thing. I studied my [...] off and got a 5 on the actual exam as well as a 5 on the AB subscore.
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