Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2013 Edition

by The Princeton Review and The Princeton Review

If you need to know it, it's in this book! Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2013 Edition includes: ???*?2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations ???*?Quick-study lists of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307945138
• ISBN13: 9780307945136
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Princeton Review
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

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This was what we needed for the class my daughter was in. None of the local bookstores had it so we were happy to find it here and it came quickly and well packaged.

Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

Very helpful for studying for the AP exams. highly recommend for parents to pick up for their high school students.

Great summary and realistic test questions but with some flaws...

Princeton's study guide for AP Environmental Science is the best. Before buying this one, I considered Barron's and REA's. After taking a Barron's practice test, I realized Barron's is overly complex and their practice questions were not realistic. And REA's test contained too many trivial facts. Princeton's AP Env Sci guide is split into 8 different "content" chapters: "Earth's Interdependent Systems", "The Inhabitants of PLanet Earth and Their Relationships", "Population Ecology", "Resource Utilization", "Energy", "Pollution", "Culture, Society and Environmental Quality" and "AP Environmental Science in the Lab". This guide does a good job of going into enough detail without overdoing it. And the author writes in a comprehensive style and doesn't fill the pages with corny jokes (a problem with many study guides out there). Overall, after reading this guide and taking a practice exam from the College Board site, I realized how much I've learned from this book alone. My teacher, although a nice guy, didn't teach much. So I was flustered before reading this, but Princeton really prepared me. Of course, some summaries didn't make sense to me so I had to review some things from the text book. All the Acts that need to be memorized (i.e. Clean Air Act, The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) are in here and the diagrams make the summaries easier to absorb. Although a few of practice questions at the end of the summaries can include subjects not "discussed" in the summaries, the answers can be implied from critical thinking or process of elimination. And these questions are similiar to real AP Environmental Science questions. There are some flaws to this book though. One thing the book doesn't go over are the math related questions that are associated with Environmental Science such as converting energy (i.e. kWh, joules), measuring BTU's from coal, etc... I wished the book had that even though some people might say this math is "common sense". Also, more diagrams could have been presented such as what a dose response curve looks like, the layers of soils, or the different biomes. Another problem is the grammatical errors prevalent throughout the book. Overall, after taking practices tests from all three brands (Barron's, Princeton and REA), Princeton gave me a more realistic overview of this AP Exam. This book isn't too difficult to get through, so if you're procrasinating, you could probably get through it in a week (I got through it in 4-5 days).