<p>I was wondering how hard practice tests/questions in each of these books are compared to the actual ACT.</p>
<p>Princeton Review Cracking the ACT
Princeton Review 1,296 Questions
Barron's ACT 36
Barron's 6 Practice Tests
Barron's ACT
McGraw Hill 10 ACT Tests</p>
<p>I'm aiming for a 35/36 btw</p>
<p>I never really paid attention to the difficulty of the practice exams in test preparation books (IMO, they’re roughly comparable to the actual SAT/ACT, not like AIME and mock AIME).</p>
<p>A bunch of people on this forum say that Barron’s is slightly harder. If so, I would pick Barron’s. A good preparation strategy is to use practice tests that are harder than the original one, so that you won’t be thrown off when it comes to hard questions.</p>
<p>This is how I would rank them in order of least difficulty to most. I am not ranking the individual books because each company’s books will have similar difficulty. The exception to this is Barrons 36 which would be the hardest book in your list.</p>
<p>McGraw Hill
ACT (the official one)
Princeton Review
Barrons
Barrons 36</p>
<p>anyone know the difficulty of each more specifically?</p>
<p>i use the 1,296 questions books, and i think it’s great. math is on par. english is as well. reading is a pinch easier.</p>
<p>I’m almost done with the English sections and I’m hitting 34/35 which is frustrating.</p>
<p>I need everything to be extra tough, though</p>
<p>Umm English has 75 questions, what book are you using …</p>
<p>Sent from my Desire HD using CC</p>
<p>Ya I know? lol I meant I am hitting a score of 34/35 on the English sections missing like 2 to 3 questions out of 75 on each</p>
<p>This was on 1296 Q’s</p>