Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

This Princeton Review AP Chemistry book is very concise and accurate. I use it as a reference for my high-school chemistry, SAT II Chemistry, and AP Chemistry students.

If you want even more examples and exercises, combine this book with Schaum's Beginning Chemistry Third Edition by David E. Goldberg.

I loved this book! I purchased this book and the Barron's review book for AP Chemistry, and its very obvious that this book was the better of the two. Keep in mind though, that this is only a review book and it only goes over certain ideas/formulas that you have to know. For this book to be helpful to you, you must already have a good grasp of AP chemistry and you do have to study regularly the whole year. I like how it breaks the topics up and just uses a couple of sentences to state a rule/explain a formula/explain an idea. The multiple choice questions for each chapter are EXACTLY like the questions in the actual AP exam, and so are the short response/essay questions. If you go over every chapter, review the ideas, do ALL the multiple choice questions/essay questions you are sure to get that 5!
**Also, the practice tests in the back are harder than the actual test, so keep that in mind! I loved this book because it showed me exactly what to expect and the questions are...Read more

I took AP Chemistry last year, and I just found out yesterday, I got a 5. This is the only book I used. This is a fairly comprehensive review book. It covers everything that's on the exam at least in passing. One thing I should stress, though: it's a review book. Not a textbook. If you want to self-study for the AP exam, then using this book to do so is going to be very difficult. However, if you have taken a course in AP Chemistry or something similar, and you need to brush up on your knowledge of certain topics, then this book will come in handy. It's got some good mnemonic devices (Red Cat, An Ox for reduction-cathode, oxidation-anode). I found the practice tests at the end to be fairly representative of the real thing, if maybe a tad easier. But, overall, if you can do the practice exams, you're probably going to get a 4 or a 5.