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<p>what are the best act prep books out there, i still dont know which ones to buy. maybe like 2 or 3 options.</p>

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<p>Get the book put out by the ACT people. My daughter finished the three testsin there, then andted a little more science practice, so she tried the tests in the Barron's book and they were total crap. I recycled it. She did well on the test.</p>

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<p>thats prety good</p>

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<p>what about princeton review?</p>

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<p>I have inquired over the same topic and many seem to prefer a combination of both the Real ACT guide and the Princeton Review. I plan to study at least an hour to two everyday and every saturday I plan to take a practice ACT. Every week I will evaluate my progress and make the proper adjustments from there. I will also take individual reading sections inorder to develope a strategy that I'll do best with.</p>

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<p>One more thing, I recommend the Barrons book just because it is very dense in material, making it a valuable reference book.</p>

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<p>The Real ACT Prep Guide and the Princeton Review are the best two imo.</p>

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<p>where did you find real official practice test.. besides the real ACT book</p>

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<p>Nicole07, I acquired this information via Mrs. Ferguson. Hope it helps. </p>

<p>There are at least 16 DIFFERENT real live retired tests available from ACT. It would be expensive to get them all yourself, but you could give this list to your guidance office and suggest that they start a library if they don't already have one. The numbers below are the number of different tests available in each format.</p>

<p>These are free:
1 Preparing for the ACT booklet (in reg packet or from guidance office, or download at <a href="http://www.act.org/path/secondary/resources.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.act.org/path/secondary/resources.html&lt;/a&gt;)
1 ACT Website (<a href="http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>You can order these at <a href="http://www.act.org/store/index.html:%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.act.org/store/index.html:&lt;/a>
3 Real ACT Prep Guide book
2 ACT Online Prep
3* Sample test booklets for students
3* Sample test booklets for institutions</p>

<p>*There are only 2 on the website/order form, but if you call customer service you can get a third one. You may be able to order the institution ones if you call, or you might have to ask your high school to order these for you. They come out with one new student and one new institution sample test every couple years, so see if your guidance office has any of the old ones that you can't order anymore (test forms are printed on the booklets).
I think they recently took some of the above off the order form, but maybe you can still get them if you or your guidance counselor calls ACT.</p>

<p>2 ACTive Prep software
You can't order this anymore, but you can find it used on eBay or Amazon or see if your high school has a copy.</p>

<p>1 Large print sample test booklet
I don't know how to get this. You could try calling customer service or see if your high school has a copy.</p>

<p>Another source of retired tests is Test Information Release, a service that lets you purchase a copy of the test and your answers after the December, April, and June test dates. You could ask people who tested on these dates and used this service if you can borrow their booklets, or suggest that your school ask students to donate their booklets to the guidance office.</p>