Master AP Chemistry, 9th ed (Master the Ap Chemistry Test)

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A review for Arco's Master the AP Chemistry Test.......2004-11-23

This book is quite good. However, it can use more organization. The display diagram can use more supporting text. One big flaw is the lack of lab component. It only mentions the lab utensils. I took both 2 practice tests. They are quire helpful. I got a 5 on the exam, just like the test predicted.

a waste of money.......2004-05-09

horrible book... i got a 5 exam because i threw this book away and got the 5 Steps To A 5 one. that one was MUCH better than anything in this one. most of the material in this book was not on the test

typos.......2004-04-28

Not a bad book for content, but expect several typos, especially in the practice problems.

ok, but several typos.......2004-04-28

The content is pretty good, but expect several typos, especially in the practice problems.

Master the AP Chemistry Test.......2003-04-13

This review book really works! Not only does this resource provide an in depth review of content, the entire course curriculum is broken down into a diverse array of organized chapter outlines. This book also assists in providing strategies used in answering questions found on the AP exam, in addition to offering several full length examinations inside...I definitely reccomend this book to anyone preparing for the AP exam.

Arco Master the Ap Chemistry Test 2001: Teacher-Tested Strategies and Techniques for Scoring High (Arco Academic Test Preparation Series)

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Excellent book, not without errors
Great Book for a Full Review
No index...?
Thorough Review But These Caveats:
A review book with clear explanations

Arco Master the Ap Chemistry Test 2001: Teacher-Tested Strategies and Techniques for Scoring High (Arco Academic Test Preparation Series)
Brett Barker
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Excellent book, not without errors.......2003-07-24

This book is excellent, and will help you with the Chemistry AP test AND your class.

It is, however, riddled with errors. The errors are small, and part of the learning process (I suppose) is finding them, crossing them out, and laughing in delight at your genius. "Planck's constant is 6.63*10^34, NOT 6.63*10^24!! I WIN AGAIN BARKER!" I had quite an adventure with this book, the name Brett Barker will forever be etched in my mind.

My chemistry class was like this. The teacher knew more about her subject than any other teacher I've ever had, but alas, couldn't teach to people of less than average intelligence. She was cursed with knowledge that could not be shared. Hence, I learned close to nothing in the class. I suffered tremendously 2nd semester because of organic chemistry and earned a B.

I still earned a 3 on the AP test, an average, unspectacular, but still PASSING grade. How did I do it? What was my secret? You guessed it - "Arco Master the AP Chemistry Test 2001: Written by Brett Barker." I picked it up 3 weeks before the test, spent over 3 hours a day taking notes on the entire book and doing all of the practice problems. Perhaps if I had gotten it 5 weeks before the test and spent 5 hours a day, I would have gotten a 5.

Get this book BEFORE your class, if you know everything in it you'll get 2 A's and a 5. If only time travel was practical...I could travel back in time and fix my foolish ways.

Great Book for a Full Review.......2001-08-10

This book offers an extensive review of the material covered on the AP exam. There are a few typos, but anyone who is even slightly good at chemistry will be able to realize what they actually meant. I would not say that this book is a good one in a last ditch effort to try to squzze some chemistry in your brain. The review is meant to be studied at a moderate pace. In fact none of these prep books can take the place of a solid year of study in a rigorous class with a competent teacher.

Nevertheless it is a very good book. It did help me achieve that 5. I didnt take the practice exams but from the looks of them they seemed to be a good reflection of the test. I actually took real AP tests from past years. Taking actual multiple choice and free-response sections of preious exams coupled with studying this book for a month, and a strong year in chemistry will get anyone a 4 at the very least.

No index...?.......2001-08-08

I found this book right before taking the AP exam and checked it out of my library hoping it would help. Unfortunately, I did not have much time to study it, but from what I could tell, it was a good book that would have probably been very effective preparation.

The presentation was very nicely done and did not make my eyes ache. The variance in fonts, enlargement of important concepts, and obvious display of sample problems all contributed in keeping me focused. The explanations were pithy but never confusing or vague. I appreciated the reminders and descriptive side boxes for key concepts. In addition to the content, the narrative style was most helpful in its ability to introduce matter in a direct and affable manner without making you feel stupid or overwhelmed.

My only complaint is the way topics are displayed. The chapters are listed in the beginning and there are clear headings throughout; however, this is somewhat difficult for quick reference. An index is indispensable and I wish they would have included one in this book.

Thorough Review But These Caveats:.......2001-04-29

This book does provide a thorough review; however, in my copy there are about 33 pages missing!! If you do buy this great book, check your copy and see if you have pages 87-118.

A review book with clear explanations.......2001-02-25

Unlike most review books of this type, this one delivers a lot of information with in-depth explanations that are clearly written. The author seems to know his audience well, and strives to explain complex material by going over the basics and then building a logical and coherent framework. There is also a lot of emphasis on problem solving, which no doubt will be useful to those taking the AP Chemistry exam. This book probably would be useful for 1st year college chemistry students as well. Overall, this book is one of the better ones in this genre, marred only by a few easily discernable typos.

Master AP Chemistry 2002 (Master the Ap Chemistry Test, 2002)

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Superior to Textbooks
Very Thorough... But...

Master AP Chemistry 2002 (Master the Ap Chemistry Test, 2002)
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Superior to Textbooks.......2002-09-07

I am a high school student who took AP chemistry last year.
Had 2 different textbooks, and I used a friends CliffNotes
AP Chemistry book. Arco's book can help you pass the class alone.
The textbooks were too long and had unecessary information and the
CliffNotes just had too little information.

Very Thorough... But..........2002-05-15

I've read through the whole book in preparation for my exam... However... Arco needs a new editor if they haven't caught the mistakes in the many editions of this book's release.

There is at least a mistake in every chapter... And for me, a person that needs AP help to see these mistakes? That is pretty disappointing.

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The best guide to this difficult exam--now with inside information on recent actual tests.From atomic structure to thermodynamics, this top-quality guide offers the most complete preparation available for the AP Exam in Chemistry. Created by a teacher who specializes in AP instruction, it provides an in-depth review of every test topic, hundreds of sample questions with explanations--plus exclusive inside information on the exact topics covered on numerous actual recent AP Chemistry tests.Frederick J. Rowe teaches AP Chemistry at Northport High School in Northport, New York.

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Barely sustaining.......2000-04-01

I found the book to be oonly adequate. Various publication issus are also at issue, because things like the font type, size, paper, just made the book a little more trouble and harder to read. Other books are far more comprehensive and better put together.

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In this breathtaking novel—rich in history and adventure—The New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Diana Gabaldon has created a work of sheer passion and brilliance....

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Book #4 in this series.......2007-08-21

This series must be read in order!!!

This book kinda bombed out for me. Jamie and Claire are not the primary characters here. Brianna (daughter) and Roger (boyfriend later married) are.

I didn't care for Brianna and Roger. They seemed to be lacking in their brains cells a time or two....

They are in present time and find a news article that tells of a housefire killing Jamie and Claire. They plot to go back to that time period to prevent it.

I WAS SO dissappointed in the way Jamie meets his daughter for the first time--standing in the alley urinating off all things.

I didn't think this one was very well written or edited. But, if you really like this series (like I did) you will want to read it.

The next book (#5), "Fiery Cross," was...uh....emmmmmm...it was awful. Sorry. But, that's another review.

A Fantastic Story!.......2007-08-07

Diana Gabaldon takes us back in time into the lives of Jamie and Claire. The author as usual does her research on the topics and settings and when the story unfolds you can feel the detail descriptions she portrays to the scenes, the attire, and characters. I thought Drums of Autumn was a wonderful book and I look forward (I'm a little late to this author) to her next book in the series. I highly recommend this romantic and adventurous story.

The necessary link.......2007-07-28

As promised in previous reviews, I will also keep this one short, sweet and to the point.

Firstly, I must state that this volume HAS to exist.

Bree and Roger have appeared in the previous books, but their links to this tale have not been forged as strongly, simply because the story had not yet required it to do so.

Well .... in this one they bring it home and finally become important players in the Outlander series.

I adore Roger - and personally, without him, Bree would be too big'a chunk to swallow sometimes. (Another itty-bitty reason this volume needed)

Again, as I have said in previous reviews - this one cannot be missed if you are intending to follow the tale to the end.

Get into it people - there is plenty more to follow.

Cheers - Jo

What a letdown!.......2007-07-23

Once I started this series, I literally could not put these books down. I was telling all my friends about these books, staying up too late and going to work with circles under my eyes, but loving the characters, the period detail and the twists and turns of the plot.

Then I came to Drums of Autumn. This is the first book of Gabaldon's series that I thought was unconvincing and could have used more attention from her editor. And that's saying something, considering each previous book is 800-1000 pages at least.

Generally I've enjoyed the anticipation leading up to a major plot point (i.e. the first 350 pages of Voyager) because what's been in those pages has been well-paced, exciting and led to a deeper appreciation of the characters. But in this book, when I got to the part where Brianna has left to find her parents, I said aloud "It's about d**n time!" and by the end of the book I was skipping pages and pages just to find out what happened. And the characters started doing things that made no sense. Eventually between the absurd plot twists and the descriptive passages that just went on and on and on, I got to the point where found myself talking back to the book ("Arggh" and "You've gotta be kidding!" are prime, printable examples) and, alas, losing interest.

Don't get me wrong - there are very riveting and entertaining parts to the book but overall I thought that Gabaldon wasted too much prose on things that didn't further the plot or enhance the characters, only to gloss over areas rife with potential. What about Brianna's memories of Frank (we only learned that he taught her to shoot - what else did they share?), her time living alone since her mother's departure, her arrival/stay at Lallybroch, her observations of her mother's relationship with Jaime and how she finally resolves her issues regarding her mother's betrayal of Frank? We hear at the end of the book that she's seen one marriage with love and one marriage without, and would choose love instead of settling. Really!?! And what were her observations and thoughts that brought her to this conclusion, anyway??

My other gripe with this book is that that Gabaldon obviously thought up the scenario concerning Roger/Jamie/Steven Bonnet simply find a mechanism by which Brianna and Roger get stranded in the 18th century. Come on!! These ploys (mistaken identity, misinterpretation of overheard conversations) are shockingly unoriginal, used in TV sitcoms and by lazy writers who can't think of any other way to get the characters do what they want them to. I know by her previous examples that she's not lazy and has created characters and stories that while they require a little suspension of disbelief, still worked because they at least seemed plausible and in alignment with what we understood about the characters. It would have been much more interesting if Gabaldon had developed Brianna into a person whose decisions and actions actually made sense. Instead of taking stock of her situation and making a well thought out decision, Brianna instead had the decision forced upon her, so to speak, and was turned into a victim. I suppose my disappointment in this book is so much greater because the author had set the bar so high with her previous entries in the series.

I'll keep plowing ahead and read the remaining two books in the series, but seeing that The Fiery Cross has only a 3-star average rating, I'll continue with much less excitement, afraid that I'll be disappointed again.

Drums of Autumn.......2007-06-16

Loved it!!! These characters reach out and invite you into their lives, loves, hurts. I can get enough of this series!!!

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