Product Description

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.

*AP, Advanced Placement Program, and College Board are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156952 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 342 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780071476300
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score

Packed with hundreds of tips and strategies, 5 Steps to a 5: AP Biology is your ultimate resource for scoring high on the AP exam and earning valuable college credits. This guide gives you a choice of study techniques, so you can find one that fits your learning style. Sharpen your conceptual framework, factual knowledge, and analytical skills with:

• Your choice of three customized study programs
• Practice exams modeled on the real test
• All the terms and concepts you need to get your best score

The 5-Step Plan helps you get the most out of your study time:

• Step 1: Develop the Study Plan
• Step 2: Develop the Knowledge
• Step 3: Develop the Skills
• Step 4: Develop the Strategies
• Step 5: Develop the Confidence

About the Author

Mark Anestis is founder and director of The Learning Edge and coauthor of McGraw-Hill's SAT I (0-07-146235-X).

Customer Reviews

I Love This Book
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.

Only the BEST AP Biology Review!!
Someone suggested this review book for me last October, and I decided to get it to have it for Biology AP. The whole year I was basically lost or behind in class because of my other AP classes and extracurricular activities. About a month before the AP testing, I decided to "review" with the AP book. I read every single word and took few practice tests. This book is very comfortable read and I loved the side comments and jokes. My AP score has not come in yet, but I felt confident after the testing. I am hoping for a 5, but like I said, I studied a month before the actual test. I also used the Five Steps to a 5 for the World History AP test, and I got a 5 on it. If that isn't convincing, I don't know what else to tell you.

Great book but don't get too excited.
This book was amazing for me because my teacher was not very good and we skipped several important chapters (most notably ALL of plants). Thus, it was great that it went through a lot of information in a really friendly and quick manner that was SO fun to read. I really think I would've done abysmally on the AP test without this book because I enjoyed going through it.

However, I do think it is a little too brief sometimes and I noticed that on some detailed questions and especially the free response on the AP i felt a little underprepared because I didn't know that much detail about subjects, making for not so good essays. However, the night before, I had glanced through the Cliff's notes book and was really really impressed. There is A LOT of information in it but I think it's the best if you want to be assured a 5 and you need something throughout the year in your AP bio class. It covers a lot, yes, sometimes unnecessarily, but it covered all that information in an easy to read manner. (also, i thought the practice MC tests were a little too easy compared to the real thing)

In conclusion- 5 Steps to a 5 is the best AP book I have ever seen in any subject because I really enjoyed reading it and I don't think I would've remembered that much information if I had been just passively reading some other normal book in 2 weeks. Get it if you have less than 3 weeks to study.

If you have more than a month/need a book for your course, get Cliff's and work through it steadily. You will be ASSURED a 5.