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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 540.76 EAN: 9780764136856 Edition: 4 ISBN: 0764136852 Label: Barron's Educational Series Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 816 Publication Date: September 01, 2007 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Studio: Barron's Educational Series Accessories:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Updated to reflect the most recent Advanced Placement Chemistry exams, this manual presents two diagnostic tests and three full length practice exams, all with questions answered and explained. The author also presents additional routine and more challenging problems in every chapter. Also included is a complete compact review of chemistry topics covering the structure of matter, chemical bonding, states of matter, physical chemistry, chemical reactions, and other topics that appear on the AP exam. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Comprehensive but a lot of superfluous informationMastering 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Thorough and hardI 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 ... Read More Rating:  - 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, ... Read More Rating:  - not very helpful for AP chemthere 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. Rating: - Review is Helpful, Test is NotThe review in this book is pretty good. That's why I like it. But the practice tests have to be taken with a grain of salt. Many of the questions on there are just ridiculous. 2-dimensional diagrams of pi bonds: probably not on the test (especially the rather crudely drawn ones presented here). And the math is not representative of the AP Chemistry test. On the real test, you are not expected to do complex logarithms and square roots in your head. And, as mentioned earlier, the answer key is riddled ... Read More 
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