Dissecting the ACT

<p>What are your guys thoughts on this book? Did you like it? Did it help you get a good score?</p>

<p>Heres the link if you are curious as to what I'm talking about:</p>

<p>Amazon.com:</a> Dissecting the ACT: A Unique Student Perspective on the ACT or ACT Test Prep with Real ACT questions: Rajiv Raju, Silpa Raju: Books</p>

<p>my DD has this book and she is going through it now. can’t say if it “works” or not until after the test, i guess.</p>

<p>it is just 10 bucks. it takes you through one ACT test with explanations for every question.</p>

<p>^ does it give you strategies as well?</p>

<p>Yeah, it gives you strategies, but they are vague and only worked for the author.</p>

<p>Of all the ACT books I have read cover to cover (8), I think that this was the least helpful one. It only gives you practice test explanations to one practice test.</p>

<p>Since you’ve read 8 of them, which one, in your judgment, is the best?</p>

<p>This book has the most easy to understand summery of grammar, punctuation and rhetorical skills that I have seen. I have seen 7 real ACT tests and have never come across an English question that was not covered in this book. </p>

<p>The list of math concepts is also very comprehensive and has a list of all the formulas that you need for the test. Again, I have never come across a math question on any of the 7 real ACT tests that I have seen that needed a formula that was not in this book. Also the math section directs you to real ACT questions (in the official practice test) to illustrate how the concepts are tested. I found this very helpful. </p>

<p>The science reasoning strategy in this book is very effective. I was never able to finish the science section until I started to use this strategy. My scores on the official practice tests used to be in the high 20s because I could not finish this section. Using this book’s strategy, I got a 36 in the science on the last test that I took! </p>

<p>The book gives you links to three free real ACT tests and provides very good explanations for the current official practice test in the booklet “Preparing for the ACT”. These explanations are from an author who has a perfect score of 36 on the ACT.</p>

<p>I don’t know if I’m blind, or if I’m jus not reading this right (my mind’s all over te place right now) but i don’t see the title of the book. What is it because I would like to get it.</p>

<p>“Since you’ve read 8 of them, which one, in your judgment, is the best?”</p>

<p>They all have different, effective uses.</p>

<p>“The list of math concepts is also very comprehensive and has a list of all the formulas that you need for the test.” rofl, that is so far from the truth</p>