Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2014 Edition (Revised) (College Test Preparation) Revised Edition

Having just taken the actual AP test today, this book definitely helped me a ton to do well on it. While it is true that the content review is rather simplistic, one must keep in mind that this is a REVIEW to be supplemented by the knowledge you gained in class. So it would not be a good idea to completely rely on this book for understanding all the concepts of chemistry.The highlight of this book are the plethora of sample questions at the end of each chapter and the two full tests. These sample questions and tests were very helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of the material and were actually similar to the real one that I just took.As many others already mentioned here, yes, there are lots of grammatical mistakes, but those mistakes do not significantly take away from the greater benefits of understanding concepts by taking practice tests.I firmly believe that this book is FAR better than the Barron's book that I also used and I would recommend this book to any AP chemistry students.

This book will be of great assistance to students. It is concise and very well organized. The practice questions with well explained answers are a super benefit.

As far as Princeton Review books go, I thought this one was poorer in quality than the other subjects (i.e. Biology (in my opinion the best one), calculus, economics, etc.). However, it was a very good, detailed study guide on the year's topics. I wish it was as detailed as other princeton review books, and had more examples of math problems, since I feel like most people have problems with that aspect of chemistry. Otherwise, I would recommend this as one of your study tools for the class and AP exams.

I am a student who is self-studying for the new AP Chemistry exam. I bought this book looking for a concise review of the new curriculum. After reading through this book and doing some practice problems I have given up on using this book. There are many errors along with some poor explanations of concepts.One of the many examples of errors involves gases. It states that there are 2.00 g of Hydrogen Gas (H2) and 4.00 g or neon. The temperature of the gasses is held at 25 degrees Celsius and the pressure is 1.0 atm. When it does calculations to find the number of moles of neon, it says that (4g Ne) / (20 g/mole) = .5 mol Ne. This is blatantly wrong because 4/20 is 0.2. Then it goes on to what is the volume of the container. The first mistake it makes on this problem is saying that STP is at 25 degrees Celsius and 1 atm. STP is actually 0 degrees Celsius, 25 degrees Celsius is used when calculating specific heat capacities. Then using the mistaken value of total moles being 1.5 moles, it multiplies 1.5 moles by 22.4 L (the volume of 1 mole of an ideal gas at STP). The answer they have as correct is 33.5 L. If the gas was really at STP and they had the correct # of moles, the answer would have been 26.88 L.Some of the explanations given in this book is unclear and misleading. It states that based on Coulomb's Law, the closer an electron is to the nucleus, the more energy it will have. However, this is rather misleading. The closer an electron is to the nucleus, the higher the force of attraction between the proton and electron. This means it takes more energy to REMOVE the electron, not that the electron has more energy. This misstatement would mean that electrons at higher energy shells (farther away from the nucleus) would have less energy than electrons at lower energy levels (closer to the nucleus). This is obviously wrong because it is electrons at higher energy levels would have more energy.This book has so many errors, in explanations and in practice problems, that I can no longer use this book to study. I don't trust any of the answers for the complicated concepts I don't fully know because they can't even get simple mole calculations right. This book was obviously rushed out and must not have been edited or written well at all.

The majority of the pages in this book are just practice problems after practice problems, which are very good prep for the real exam. I really liked how each problem came with a set of good explanations too.However, Content-wise, this book is missing a lot of stuff that might be tested on the exam. It's a good "crash course" study guide, but its still only going to be a barely supplement to all of the AP Chem notes I've taken in class. There are several mistakes throughout the book, for instance there was a ∆G = -RTlnK formula in here that told me ∆G was a gas constant equaling 8.31 J/mol-K. Clearly it isn't, because that i the value for R. I also have the 2013 AP Chem Book, and I found that the older version had much more content than this one. I've been using both the 2013 and 2014 books, as well as my notes to study for the exam.I wouldn't really suggest buying this book unless you can't find anything else that sounds better.

Looked over it and compared it to my textbook. This is so much easier to understand than my textbook and it has efficient review sessions.

The best book for the students taking the AP test. The book really serves the purpose. I recommend the book.

Son aces his tests with this book.