Kaplan AP US History 2006

By Kaplan Inc. and Kaplan Test Prep

Everything you need to score higher on the AP U.S. History exam -- Guaranteed. Kaplan's comprehensive guide includes: 2 full-length practice tests Detailed answer explanations Hundreds of practice... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743265599
• ISBN13: 9780743265591
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 1.2" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Extremely well-qualified to get you that high score

This book went through rain and sunshine with me three weeks before the exam. Without it, i think I would have failed the exam.

Enough to help me!

I used this book in prep for the AP USH May 2006 Test and received a 4 - just start studying around December and you should be fine. My teacher wasn't the greatest and teaching so this was my sole supplement for test prep, very clear and well explained material. Nicely outlined.

great book

With literally only 3 days to study for the exam, I used this book to help me out, and I read ALL the review, and even had time to take a practice test. There are 30 chapters and a quiz after each one (about 5 questions) which really help, and the really scary thing is the questions were strickingly similar to the actual AP Exam, actually some were almost EXACTLY the same. I went from a "1" on the diagnostic test to a "4" after reading the whole book. I hope I did that well on the actual exam =) Only problem in there was that there were a few typos...I hate typos some years were mentioned before and then they changed it into 19-- instead of a dat ein the 1700s or they added an extra number like 18326 or something, and had a few misspellings, I'm finding these typos to be downright annoying and they appear frequently in Kaplan's books.

Not bad

This book isn't bad-- it reviews all of the topics and presents the material in a different way (doesnt't have long, long blocked passages that make reading so tedious). The book's free response practice helped me a lot since I didnt have a clue as to how to approach it before. I never did the 2 complete tests at the end but I always heard Kaplan books gave the most realistic tests. I think that if i hadnt gotten help on free-response from this, I would not have gotten a 5. My teacher had us do Barron's practice tests the weeks before the actual exam, but those were just so insanely hard that it's just pointless and discouraging (seriously). Also, I saw the REA book from a friend and although the sample essays for each practice free-response question seem to be written by very knowledable people, they must have taken much longer (than the alloted time on the actual exam) to write. In other words, there is no way anybody could write as much as the authors of the REA essays did (this doesnt exactly help you much on your free-response score). By the way, this book should be used along with your school textbook because in the end, it really is just about how much you've prepared throughout the entire year.

Got a 4 on the exam and used this to study entire year

Honestly, AP US exam is really hard. If your teacher can't teach you the material, then you're screwed. The nice thing about this prep book is that it lays out a nice summary for each section of the AP Exam. While not as detailed as REA, it does its job by giving you nice summaries on each US History era followed by short summaries of key events or terms you might run across on the AP Exam. A nice thing is at the end of each section there are mini quizzes on the section. The main thing you want to use this prep book for are the practice exams. Sucks there is only 2 but if you do well on the multiple choice, you will be in good shape. I used this book in conjunction with REA, which was WAY too much information. If you really want that 5, then REA is your best friend. Kaplan does a great job with bare information you'll need for a 4 on the exam. Didn't both with the essays because I had practice essays from my wonderful AP US history teacher. If you have a great US teacher like I did, you'll do fine on the essay section. Overall, not a bad book. Use this book to supplement main textbook and to review for major cramming before AP exam.