CliffsAP Biology (Cliffs Ap Biology)

CliffsAP Biology (Cliffs Ap Biology)

Best AP Biology Review Guide Around

I've reviewed and used all the other review guides during the last 10 years that I've taught AP Biology and this one is absolutely the best. It's the one I order every year for my AP Biology students. I recommend it highly.

CliffNotes A.P. Biology

The book came exactly as it was described and arrived on time so I had it for school.

Best review book I've ever used

This book reviews all the material you need to know for the test, in a clear, simple, efficient way. I bought it too late to use it in my AP Biology class, but I'm sure it would be good for that too. I read the whole book the week before the AP test and got a 5.

This book is the reason I got a five.

I didn't learn a lot in my AP Biology class; we rarely took our lessons seriously and our teacher gave us very few assignments. We learned material slowly--by the time May came around, we still had nine chapters left (out of 56) to read in the textbook! Everyone in our class was pretty much flipping out over the AP test and how soon we had to take it. Nobody felt prepared. My friend actually reread the entire textbook in the week we had to review before the test. I procrastinated, and didn't want to go through that (our textbook was MASSIVE) so I read this cover-to-cover twice the weekend before the exam. Didn't need to take notes, just highlighted bits of information in spots where there were some excessively detailed descriptions. This book has excellent diagrams, and except for occasional typos here and there, it wasn't at all difficult to read. I'd suggest it for anyone with a mediocre teacher, or people who know they're going to slack off until a week before the exam :) Reading the book once, slowly and thoroughly, and then rereading it again quickly (skimming through areas that I already knew pretty well) was the strategy that earned me a five on the exam this year! I love this book. Several students in my class used the Princeton review book, which does spend more time explaining how the AP test works than this does, but in every other respect CliffsAP is far better than the other review book options. It helped on class tests as well, because it explored concepts in a much clearer, easily understood way than the textbook did. Absolutely would recommend anyone to buy it.

Excellent tool if you want to ace the exam

Yes I mean it, it really is as great as people are saying. I have always been weak at biology, and I was very nervous about taking it at the AP level especially since its so difficult, but I endured it. I got mostly Bs in that class, I got very lazy with senioritis even to the point that I skipped some chapters in the text and didnt even bother to pay attention in class or read summaries. So although I was getting into lousy habits typical of high school seniors, I was still determined to get a good AP score. So, this book came in handy. I read the book starting in the beginning of May, and read through it by the eve of the exam. I was stressfully cramming the weekend before the test, reading through the densely packed information (very concise too), and I even skipped some parts (esp. animal phyla and plants). Its a great review, and I even learned some stuff that I was too lazy to read earlier that year. On Sunday night before the test, I still didnt know enough, and I felt screwed. But I knew I had to let go. As they say, if you've spent your time studying, you will be prepared. I notice many people saying "this isnt a substitute for a textbook!" etc, and they are right. This alone will not get you an A in the class. It will not effectively teach you everything about bio. But it will definitely prepare you for a 5 on the AP exam, and its all I used to study for the exam. Most of my classmates used Barron's (good, but way too much info), but I knew this was better. So I called for my scores, and you guessed, I got a 5!! If you're gonna use this, I highly recommend you start studying during spring break, or in mid April at the latest. That way, you can work your way through the book without stressing and cramming like I did, and maybe do better on any practice tests that count as grades. If this is all you're using for AP studying, make sure you READ (not skim) and understand everything (or almost everything) that this book tells you (look in your textbook if something isnt clear). Peace out, and I hope this helps

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