How valuable are the practice tests in Princeton Review and 5 Steps to a 5?
I'm lowkey feeling like I wasted my money on prep books.. I bought 5steps and PR for physics 1, Cliffs & PR for APES, and PR for APUSH (have AMSCO online). I got some of them for free, but still. Are the practice tests representative of the real exam??
Posted Apr 5, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC
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I’d also like to know, because i took the first test in Princeton Review for Calculus BC. The questions seemed kind of “trivial”, if that makes sense. Not like easy, but like you’d need to use tricks to get the answers, I guess? Also one of the non-calculator FRQs required a calculator...
Yeah I generally resort to using only official practice exams. I a PR practice Calc BC exam and found that many of the calculator multiple choice questions could be solved by just plugging the integral into my calculator. Also, the FRQs were very trivial and didn't seem at all like an accurate depiction of the real FRQ's difficulty on the real exam.
i agree.