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McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill's 10 Practice Acts) |  | Author: Steven Dulan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 100589
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 435
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 007159146X
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
EAN: 9780071591461
ASIN: 007159146X
Publication Date: May 30, 2008
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Product Description
We want to give you the practice you need on the ACT McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests helps you gauge what the test measures, how it's structured, and how to budget your time in each section. Written by the founder and faculty of Advantage Education, one of America's most respected providers of school-based test-prep classes, this book provides you with the intensive ACT practice that will help your scores improve from each test to the next. You'll be able to sharpen your skills, boost your confidence, reduce your stress-and to do your very best on test day. - 10 complete sample ACT exams, with full explanations for every answer
- 10 sample writing prompts for the optional ACT essay portion
- Scoring Worksheets to help you calculate your total score for every test
- Expert guidance in prepping students for the ACT
- More practice and extra help online
ACT is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc., which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
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 A necessary resource to improve ACT score November 1, 2008
Nicolas Joosten (Darien, CT)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
I used this book along with the Real ACT book, the Sparknotes Guide to the ACT book, and the Dummies ACT prep book. I found that this book was one of the more helpful ones. I was skeptical at first to buy this book, as the ACT content can get distorted when it isn't written by the actual ACT writers. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the practice tests in the book resemble the real ACT tests greatly. The writers of the 10 McGraw Hill Practice ACT (as stated in the introduction) analytically scrutinized the content of the real ACT and emulated it in the 10 practice tests. The only defect is the answer explanations. The explanations are very succinct and sometimes you don't understand why you got the wrong answer. But that is not the case with all the answer explanations. In order to significantly improve your score, taking practice ACT tests greatly helps. Therefore, this is one of the best resources to use to improve your ACT score.
This book helped me get a 33!
SCORE! November 15, 2009
S. Jarmin (Houston-ish, Texas USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In depth detailing to help you understand the how's, why's, yes' and no's. Perfect for the adult going back to school!!!
just what we needed June 5, 2009
joan esther (new york)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
just what we needed, less expensive than we otherwise would have paid for it in a bookstore, on time........ thanks!
 Close to the real ACT format -- but not exact October 5, 2009
Jessie Schodak (Cleveland, OH)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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).
10 ACT Practice Tests April 2, 2009
P. Clemetson (Orlando, FL)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
A great resource if you are looking for practice tests to check your progress. It doesn't have any test taking tips or strategies, but those are well documented in other resources (which typically have only have 4 practice tests). Well worth the investment.
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