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(More customer reviews)I simply looooove this book. The books I used for my AP bio was the Cliffs book and this book. The two go along so well together!
What I love most about this book is that it is really fun to study. While the Cliffs book presents facts point by point and summarizes well, this book actually makes you feel sort of like (a little hyperbole here hehe) reading a novel. The way the author writes is really cute. There are a lot of little jokes, and in the organic section, he actually makes you get on board a tour bus into the human body. Corny, yes, but cute and funny. At the end of the organics section, the bus gets eaten by a macrophage or something. And there was this :::Aplause::: in really big fonts that made me wonder what it was about. When I got to that section, I discovered that it was a standing ovation for the actin-myosin tango that explained how our muscle works. By the way, this was the ONLY book through which I could understand how the muscle worked.(Not even the cliffs book!)
The practice tests are good, but I think the Cliffs book does a better job in the essay part. But there were information not in the Cliffs book but in this book only that showed up in the AP exam! I don't quite remember but it was some kind of thing that controlled whether the cell was to grow or not. I remember being delighted to see the familiar word during the exam. (I thought something like, hey! This was the thing in the Mcgrawhill book! So cliffs wasn't the bible after all!) Oh and this book does a really good job of presenting the genetic disorders like the down syndrome and phenylketonuria and stuff like that.
I think studying with the cliffs first, reading this book next, doing the practice tests (I actually bought the cliffs 5 ap bio practice tests and it was pretty good, too.. although I only did two of its tests) would prepare you pretty well for the exam. I EASILY got a five out of those books. Yeah~~ I didn't give or throw away this book so that I could refer to it later, and maybe read it when I need help from the boring bio textbooks.
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5 Steps to a 5: AP Biology, Second Edition (5 Steps to a 5 on the Advanced Placement Examinations Series)More than 100,000 students take the AP* Biology test every year. With updated information on essays, and new free-response questions, this guide gets you prepped for this new format better than any other test prep book on the market.
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