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Summary: It's almost there... BUT
Comment: During the spring of my junior year in high school I took the SAT for the first time. My scores were a disaster... R-510 M-510 W-540!!! OMIGOD HOW THE F*** were these going to get me into NYU, my dream school. Over the summer I decided to study for the ACT which I heard was easier. I bought the princeton review book and the real act study guide and read it each book cover to cover. A friend suggested that i buy the sat math level 1 and 2 subjects test book as well to review my math. After a summer of constant study i took the test again and got E-28,M-32,R:29,S-30, and an Essay score of 10. for a composite score of 30! 4 months later i got into NYU early decision!!!

my suggestion to you: students who are struggling with sat/act tests

1. DONT GIVE UP!!!
2. buy the math subjects test prep book and use it to review your math. you can skip things you know wont be on the act/sat like logs, vectors, limits
3. for reading: look at the q's first and get a sense of what they want. then when you read you can underline where you think an answer might be
4. for english: REVIEW YOUR GRAMMER!
5. for science: practice looking at charts and graphs and do a lot of practice questions. the act website has links to questions you can try for free.

GOOD LUCK... may all your dreams come true

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Summary: good book
Comment: I really like this book. I bought it for my son. It has good explanations. I like that it tells you how many plane geometry questions there will be, or how many puntuation questions, etc. The reviews are helpful. My son hasn't taken the ACT, yet. So, I don't know how well the questions mirror the actual test. But, the review material is helpful.

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Summary: Reviewing A+, "Practice tests" F-
Comment: When i got this book i thought it was going to help me a lot when i took the ACT in april, it didn't. when i actually took the test that april morning many of the question were VERY different from the ones given in the "practice tests" in the book. The ironic part is that in the beginning of this book the author says (I'm paraphrasing here) "You can trust us, our "practice tests" are heavily based on the real thing unlike other review books" Looks like they should have taken their own advice

I would highly suggest other review books.
The Real ACT Prep Guide: The Only Official Prep Guide From The Makers Of The ACT (Real Act Prep Guide) Is a great book for practice tests, but the review material is few and far between, and it just got updated in 2008
Kaplan ACT 2008 Comprehensive Program (Kaplan Act) or Kaplan ACT 2008 Premier Program (w/ CD-ROM) (Kaplan Act (Book & CD-Rom)) This is a great book for review and their practice tests are quite good(compared to the "practice tests" in this book anything that actually resembles the real thing is at least half decent)

i've tried both of these alternatives and i did really well on the June ACT (not to brag but i got a 28 composite score which is 93 percentile :) )

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Summary: ACT Test Prep
Comment: This book is very easy to read and full of easy to use test taking tips.

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Summary: useful
Comment: I am a sophomore student in high school. I took the ACT in April 12.2008,and the English was extremely helpful. Although the math section was unpleasant and Reading was ran out of time.I would recommend to the students who going to take the ACT. I got my score back in April 2. The score was terrible and disappointed. I'm going to take it again in June to prove my score up to 10 points

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