Cracking the AP Calculus BC Exam, 2018 Edition (College Test Prep)

Totally conceptual.No extras or overburden.Solid questions.Answers and solutions to every questions.In short, perfect book

Absolute garbage. The tests are nowhere near the level of the actual AP exam. On about 10-20% of multiple choice questions, the Answer Key doesn't match up with the answer explanations at the back, test writers copy-pasted integral symbols across whole tests with incorrect limits of integration, Free-response questions often have crucial units or exponents missing. One of the free response questions about rotational volumes had a blatantly incorrect answer provided by Princeton, and that's just one of the many mistakes in this book.

The practice tests are *far* harder than the actual past exams, and pretty unlikely to be solved in the given time - they psych you out and are unrealistic. Also, I did just 14 multiple-choice problems before noticing this and giving up, and one (in Practice Exam 2) had a careless error (couldn't be solved as written) - Wolfram Alpha confirmed it. (The problem said "integral from 1 to infinity" while the answer explanation said "integral from 2 to infinity".) All in all, it's irresponsible for them to be so careless without a warning.

Sooooo many errors. Students should not use this to study for anything. From simple errors where the answer choices have typos making it so none are correct to mathematical errors throughout the explanations... I’ve only made it through the first sample exam and I would fear for a student using this to prep is this is an indication of how the rest will go.

Piece of junk. There are many errors in print. Plus, there is no index search at the end of the book for topics interested. Not organized well at all.

The kindergarteners who wrote this book can be of no use to you and can, in no way, help you study for the exam. About 15-20% of questions on the practice exam had crucial errors in the wording of the problems, the math of the questions, the multiple choice options, or the answer key and explanations. This book should be titled: proven techniques to lower your AP Calculus Exam score. The errors were so simple, the 16-year-old students in my calculus class would laugh out loud at the stupidity of the writer of the book. It is indeed quite possible that these authors have never been in a calculus class, as they seem to not know methods crucial to calculus (eg. Euler's method, u-substitution). Spending 3 hours on a practice exam from this book would be about as useful to you as stabbing your face with a kitchen knife while simultaneously jumping out of a third-story window and setting your house on fire. Buying this book is as good a use of your money as buying used paper towels, which is essentially what this book is: a roll of used, useless, mucky, disgusting paper towels. Please, don't buy it.

As much I love the Princeton Review series, especially for AP Exam review, this edition is god awful! I've been just doing the 1st Practice Test and have already spotted four mistakes, either incorrect boundaries of integration, or wrong type of Riemann sum, or even just incorrect transcription of important details. Plus, there are only 25 no-calc multiple choice questions (should be 30) and there are 20 calc multiple choice questions (should be 15) for the 1st Practice Test.While the content is great and the sets of practice problems extremely helpful, the number of obvious and glaring mistakes on this book is unacceptable. Students around the world rely on this book to pass a crucial assessment and such mistakes not only confused them for the test but also impede their education. Princeton Review should immediately update the book. Get some math majors to actually review them before publication!If you are gonna buy the books, be cognizant about the mistakes and don't over stress when they pop out. I do recommend this book, however, just for the practice set of problems.

The practice tests don't match the real AP test at all. There are so many mistakes. In the first practice test, for a section that does not allow calculator, the answer key actually says use calculator to evaluate the expression. The publisher should be more responsible.

This product will do exactly what you need it to. Yes, the multiple choice is a bit more difficult than the actual exam, but lets be honest, you probably need the practice.There are occasional mistakes in the problem, but honestly if you can catch those mistakes and work them out logically thats probably the best test prep you can do... even though it may not be what the author intended.Overall, mistakes do not actually teach you any wrong techniques, and are simple computational errors.

This book is pretty good at helping you review for calculus. It features a practice test at the beginning to diagnose your strengths and weaknesses and goes through every topic you may learn in BC Calculus with easy-to-follow examples and problem sets. There are also two more tests at the end of the book. There are thorough explanations for every problem in this book, from practice tests to problem sets. Overall, this book was useful in helping me prep for calculus

Amazing little book that'll help you get through calculus although some lessons are sort of not as thorough as some may like the book is still valuable for review and some lessons are taught beautifully with proofs for the rules being taught. So long as you're using this to brush up on some topics and make use of the practice problems and mock ap exam then you will make the most of this book

There are several errors in this book. It should go through an additional editing process.

This book has countless errors on many of the multiple choice questions, including many incorrectly printed integral signs, answer key having an entirely different problem than the actual question has. Very frustrating. Also, I've heard that the MC problems are way easier than in this book. Unless you want a frustrating challenge, don't buy this book.

If you enjoy doing practice tests that include questions of much higher difficulty than the actual exam, as well as practicing under incorrect time limits ((Diagnostic test) the first section had 25 questions instead of the supposed 30), and having many incorrect questions/answers thrown at you, please buy this book. Otherwise, save your money.

Excellent reference that helped our son to achieve a 5 on the AP Calculus B-C exam!