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Summary: An A+ Book
Review: 5 Steps to a 5 is a thorough, excellent review for the Calculus AB test. There are many useful examples that are worked out for the student. And at the end of each section there are many additional examples for more practice. This book not only clarifies concepts, it also provides more than sufficient practice problems to test that one actually understands them. In addition the font is very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. I highly recommend this review book for anyone taking the calculus BC or AB course.
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Summary: An A+ Book
Review: 5 Steps to a 5 is a thorough, excellent review for the Calculus AB test. There are many useful examples that are worked out for the student. And at the end of each section there are many additional examples for more practice. This book not only clarifies concepts, it also provides more than sufficient practice problems to test that one actually understands them. In addition the font is very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. I highly recommend this review book for anyone taking the calculus BC or AB course.
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Summary: The Best Way to Prepare
Review: 5 Steps to a 5 is an excellent AP Calculus review book. Its comprehensive review of the AB curriculum makes calculus incredibly easy to understand. The sample problems and detailed explanations of their answers help students to gain a complete understanding of calculus problems as well as the ability to solve the problems themselves. Now that I have taken the AP test, I can say that this book is definitely the best way to prepare for it!
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Summary: The Best Way to Prepare
Review: 5 Steps to a 5 is an excellent AP Calculus review book. Its comprehensive review of the AB curriculum makes calculus incredibly easy to understand. The sample problems and detailed explanations of their answers help students to gain a complete understanding of calculus problems as well as the ability to solve the problems themselves. Now that I have taken the AP test, I can say that this book is definitely the best way to prepare for it!
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Summary: Should be called "1 Step to a 1"
Review: Avoid this review book. I am a teacher of Calculus, and I am going to teach AP Calculus next year. Unlike most students who need to review, I already know the material 100%. I was SHOCKED by the amount of errors and misprints that are in this book. If you are a student who doesn't know Calculus that well, you are going to think that YOU are the one making errors, but it is the book that is wrong. I contacted the publisher, and they have yet to give me a decent response. I feel this book should be pulled from the shelves. They should title it "1 Step to a 1", and the one step is to buy this book.
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Summary: 5 Stars - same as my AP score
Review: I got a 5 on the AP Calculus AB exam due in large measure to this book. A couple of weeks before the AP, I just worked my way through this book, and that was essentially my only preparation for the AP. I had a terrible calculus teacher, so I had to learn many of the AP topics entirely from this book. Particularly for volume and area problems, this book was utterly illuminating: I was incredibly confused by my teacher's fumbling presentation of the subject, but this book was all I needed to get me back on track. In fact, now that I'm in BC Calculus with the same teacher, I'm sorry that I gave this book away to a friend - 5 Steps to a 5 would certainly help on the simpler BC topics, as well!I also purchased the Barron's book before taking the AP, which I didn't like nearly as much and spent very little time using. Barron's is much, much harder than the actual AP, which is frustrating, plus the actual instruction in Barron's is a lot more difficult to follow. 5 Steps to a 5 was all the preparation I needed for the AP, but you really need to go through the whole book to get the most out of it. It's some amount of work, but 5 Steps to a 5 easily guides you on the path to earn the top score on the AP.
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Summary: 5 Stars - same as my AP score
Review: I got a 5 on the AP Calculus AB exam due in large measure to this book. A couple of weeks before the AP, I just worked my way through this book, and that was essentially my only preparation for the AP. I had a terrible calculus teacher, so I had to learn many of the AP topics entirely from this book. Particularly for volume and area problems, this book was utterly illuminating: I was incredibly confused by my teacher's fumbling presentation of the subject, but this book was all I needed to get me back on track. In fact, now that I'm in BC Calculus with the same teacher, I'm sorry that I gave this book away to a friend - 5 Steps to a 5 would certainly help on the simpler BC topics, as well! I also purchased the Barron's book before taking the AP, which I didn't like nearly as much and spent very little time using. Barron's is much, much harder than the actual AP, which is frustrating, plus the actual instruction in Barron's is a lot more difficult to follow. 5 Steps to a 5 was all the preparation I needed for the AP, but you really need to go through the whole book to get the most out of it. It's some amount of work, but 5 Steps to a 5 easily guides you on the path to earn the top score on the AP.
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Summary: What a relief! A review book that REALLY WORKS!
Review: This book is excellent - clearly written with tons of helpful examples. I recommend it!
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Summary: Excellent review!
Review: This book is excellent not only as a pre-AP review but also as a way of keeping up with the Calculus material throughout the year. Every chapter reviews the concepts and includes many different types of sample problems to prepare you for whatever problem you may get on the AP. If you feel as if you don't know a certain topic, using this book to go through that chapter is extremely helpful, so this doesn't need to be used only for review a week before the AP. The extra problems in each chapter provide valuable practice on each topic. In addition, the book contains helpful lists of formulas and equations so you don't need to go back through every unit to find all of them. Finally, this review contains several practice exams so that you can test yourself before the real exam, and the exam problems are very similar to those that actually appear on the real AP. This book is definitely extremely helpful, both as supplementary review during the year and as review before the AP exam.
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Summary: Excellent review!
Review: This book is excellent not only as a pre-AP review but also as a way of keeping up with the Calculus material throughout the year. Every chapter reviews the concepts and includes many different types of sample problems to prepare you for whatever problem you may get on the AP. If you feel as if you don't know a certain topic, using this book to go through that chapter is extremely helpful, so this doesn't need to be used only for review a week before the AP. The extra problems in each chapter provide valuable practice on each topic. In addition, the book contains helpful lists of formulas and equations so you don't need to go back through every unit to find all of them. Finally, this review contains several practice exams so that you can test yourself before the real exam, and the exam problems are very similar to those that actually appear on the real AP. This book is definitely extremely helpful, both as supplementary review during the year and as review before the AP exam.
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