McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill's 10 Practice Acts),   ISBN:9780071591461

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In depth detailing to help you understand the how's, why's, yes' and no's. Perfect for the adult going back to school!!!

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My daughter used this book to help her prepare for the ACT test. She indicated that is was very helpful.

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I feel like I have been through nearly every ACT prep product sold on Amazon. I have been working to get a 99th percentile ACT score without spending big bucks on private tutoring or a prep class. I figured I should post a review with my feelings about these products to prevent other students from having to do all the shopping around that I did.

I used this book, The Real ACT Prep Guide: The Only Official Prep Guide From The Makers Of The ACT, Boost Your Score! The Unofficial Software Guide to the Real ACT, a Kaplan book,The ACT For Dummies and a Princeton Review book. I took the test in June and September and I have been studying since last December.

Here is how I felt about this product. Like another reviewer mentioned, the tests did seem a little easier than the real thing. When I worked with materials that relied on official ACT materials (the Real ACT Prep Guide and the Boost Your Score software that is compatible with it) I found that many math problems required multiple steps, with a small sneaky hook at the end. For example, you'd have to solve a quadratic equation, but then the question would ask you what the PRODUCT of the two roots was. But two of the answer choices would be the roots themselves. Sneaky, right? Generally, the McGraw-Hill tests were just not that sneaky. In my case, I really had to practice more than just skills. I had to learn out to "out think" the test. For me, I found that using official tests worked best to teach me how to do that.

That said, I still thought this product was helpful and I would recommend it to others. There's something nice about having so many practice tests in one place. It gave me the flexibility to play around with different test sections as I worked on proper pacing, without having to worry I was "wasting" a test (as I felt with the Real ACT Prep Guide, since it only has 3 tests in it).

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On contrary to some of the other reviewers, I found this book a little on the easy side compared to REAL ACT tests epecially in the math. Yes, this book similiar in questions but the difficulty level is something to take notice of. For example, in the math section, one reoccuring question that appears on all of the test multiple time is "What is the slope of the line 2x+4y=1, or vice-versa with a question dealing with the y-intercept. The ACT will not typically be this generous to you so be warned. And yet another example can be taken from the Reading Section. The passages generally seemed more easy to read than the real thing however, I will give them that questions were very similar to REAL ACT questions.

Overall, a good book to boost your confidence, but not a book to significantly raise your score to the 32-36 range due to the slight inaccurcies and sometimes rather short explanations. If you are looking for a score of 26-29, I do not see any problem with this book then.

One of the reviewers said he achieved a 33. I am nearly positive this was due the excellent book "The Real ACT" which he said he used. The reason for this is that book contans REAL ACT tests that have been administered before.
At the end of the day, you are what you practice so choose your test prep book with that in mind.

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just what we needed, less expensive than we otherwise would have paid for it in a bookstore, on time........ thanks!