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The ACT experts show you how to make the grade-and get into the college of your choice! You're applying to college and hoping to get into your first-choice school. You've got the grades and the recommendations-and now the biggest obstacle in your path is the ACT. How can you make sure you're getting the very best test preparation available? McGraw-Hill's ACT is the answer. It's the best because it was created by experts you can trust: test-prep coaches who have helped students just like you get top ACT scores. They're specialists in handling the toughest ACT questions, and now they've put all their top-scoring techniques and test-smart strategies into this powerhouse guide. Everything you need is here: in-depth reviews of every test subject and question type, full-length practice tests in the book and on an additional CD ROM that are as close as you can get to the real thing, and valuable time- and stress-management skills that will help you stay calm, focused, and ready to do your best. So choose McGraw-Hill's ACT for your test-preparation program - and get into the college you want! McGraw-Hill's ACT gives you an unbeatable edge with - 8 full-length sample exams, with complete explanations for every question
- Everything you need to know about the new ACT writing test
- Classroom-tested techniques and strategies for answering every question type
- An 8-week ACT Training Schedule-plus an Emergency Plan in case the test is only days away
- Tips to help you reduce test-taking stress and sharpen your thinking skills
8 PRACTICE ACTs on CD 5 in the book and on disk * 3 more on disk only
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McGraw-Hill's ACT WITH CD-ROM (Mcgraw Hill's Act (Book & CD Rom))
- Paperback: 523 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2006-03-28
- Label: McGraw-Hill
- Reading Level: Young Adult
- Studio: McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 0071456813
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 5 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #895100
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Summary: Blatant errors and typos make this book unusable 2007-10-19
Comment: I work at a tutoring office which uses this book, among many other test-prep guides. Let me just give an example of the frequency of errors in this book.
On one of the practice tests, I assigned my student 15 pseudo-random problems (all of them dealt vaguely with geometry). When we went back and discussed the questions, 8 of those 15 questions had errors varying degrees of severity.
- One question had the same answer choice written twice, with the correct answer not available.
- Four questions had completely incorrect answers. That is not to say that the answer choices had typos. Rather, the explanations in the back derived answers that were incorrect.
- Other questions had used non-standard (and incorrect) terminology. For instance, one question asked "What is the corresponding acute angle of a 110º angle?". This use of "corresponding" (as a replacement for supplementary) is completely wrong.
- Some questions had multiple correct answer choices. For instance, a questions asking which choice was an obtuse triangle had two obtuse triangles as answer choices.
Anyone who bought this book should probably try to get a refund. Based on the huge number of not-so-subtle errors in one test, let alone the whole book, this book is more harmful than helpful for test preparation.
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Summary: GLARING ERRORS IN BOOK. 2007-09-23
Comment: I bought this for brother who is taking ACT. We were going over his answers in one of the math practice tests. Many of the choices (A,B,C,D) did not correlate to the question posed. Furthermore, explanations were incorrect and inaccurate. Luckily, we were going over the answers together and found these mistakes. He has gotten several correct once we reviewed. Bad proofreading and flat out incorrect answers found frequently.
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Summary: Very helpful 2007-08-23
Comment: We bought this and donated it to the school where I son attended. He said that it was very helpful.
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Summary: Excellent ACT Prep! 2007-03-18
Comment: This book is simply amazing! The practice questions are extremely helpful! The strategies and study techniques helped to improve my son's ACT score immensely! Kudos to the authors of this book, it literally saved us! Thank you!
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Summary: A well written study guide 2006-08-27
Comment: While prepping for the ACT I used many books, however McGraw-Hill's guide stands out from the others (princeton review etc) because it is so well written. There are tons of practice problems in the book which I found extremely helpful. Practice is the only guaranteed technique to improve your ACT/SAT score, and that's where many of the competitors fall short. The Real ACT book by the makers of the test was also an excellent buy.
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McGraw-Hill's ACT WITH CD-ROM (Mcgraw Hill's Act (Book & CD Rom))
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