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Barron's Educational Series
Released: 2009-03-01
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Even the most gifted college-bound students who take the ACT college entrance test arenÂ't expected to achieve the perfect composite score of 36--but those who come close are virtually guaranteed acceptance to the nationÂ's finest, most academically challenging colleges. This brand-new test prep manual picks up where ordinary manuals leave off. The expert team of authors presents special advice and suggests innovative strategies directed at academic achievers, showing students how to tackle the ACTÂ's most difficult questions, come up with winning answers, and get an exceptionally high test score. In addition to detailed advice on test-taking strategies, this book presents hundreds of difficult and tricky practice questions with tips on interpreting them correctly and finding the correct answers. The practice questions are similar in format to those found on the actual test, and all ACT test topics are covered: English, mathematics, reading, science, and the optional Writing Test, which requires a brief essay.
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Barron's ACT 36: Aiming for the Perfect Score
- Paperback: 10 pages
- Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 2009-03-01
- Label: Barron's Educational Series
- Studio: Barron's Educational Series
- ISBN: 0764140221
- Sales Rank in Books: #12947
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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:  Score improved, By IBDcrazy "IBDcrazy" (Chicago, USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Barron's ACT 36: Aiming for the Perfect Score (Paperback) I am a parent of a son who attempted to improve the score and he acheived it. The reason for my review, I went through the pain of finding out what is the best book to coach. So we purchased different(used) books, each one has its own strength and weakness. His score improved from 28 to 33. So I asked him to rank the books which he would recommend for others -
1) Real ACT 2) Barron's ACT 36 and the other ACT books of Barron's 3) Princeton 4) For practice he used Mcgraw-Hill - 10 exams 5) Used online websites in local library to try the practice exam. My local town lib provided two real exams. He felt it was a good one. Bottom line, I coached him and didnt send to any other coaching centers. I asked him to review the concepts in each book then practice. The drill was each weekend for last 3 months. One full test over the weekend including writing. We tracked the practice test score consistently and observed the pattern. Except for Math...Read more 51 of 56 people found the following review helpful: A Must Buy For every one who wants to excel on the ACT!!!, This review is from: Barron's ACT 36: Aiming for the Perfect Score (Paperback) I am currently and senior in high school and made the terrible mistake of not planning my standardized test schedule earlier. But no regrets, I took the ACT in once at the end of my junior year and got a 31. I'll admit it, I'm and over achiever and 95% percentile doesn't quite cut it for me. So I decided to prep for my standardized tests during the summer. I bought many books, Barron's ACT, The real prep guide, the princeton review guide, barron's act reading and english, barron's math and science, Kaplan reading, writing, english, and Kaplan ACT Math, yeah I know i'm crazy, and read them all, I also bought this book at the same time. Now it is less than a month before my ACT and I have finally opened this book and have gotten 34 pages into it and I have already regretted buying the other books. This is the ONLY book you need for the ACT, well this and the McGraw Hill's 10 ACT practice tests, and the Real Prep guide for the real tests, but this book is awesome!!! It gives you easy...Read more 20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:  Doesn't Really "Teach"..., This review is from: Barron's ACT 36: Aiming for the Perfect Score (Paperback) This book was...OK.
The practice sections are the highlights of this book. The practices they offer are a lot harder than most others, and if you do well with the practices in this book, the other prep books will seem really easy. However, there is something about this book that should be noticed: this book does NOT actually teach anything. For example, in the Math-Geometry section, it says: "...you will use properties of isosceles triangles to find area and perimeter of regular polygons...triangle sum and the reflexive property are key to keep in mind when solving these problems." But nowhere do they tell you what the properties of isosceles triangles are, or what the triangle sums are, or what the reflexive property is... In general, buy this book to only practice the hard ACT questions. You will not gain very much if you do not already know the material tested. |
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