<p>For the ACT, I exhausted the free sample questions on the ACT site. Timed myself and wrote down the answers on paper, checked them against the key when I was done (clicked bubbles). I don’t know how it was effective, but it worked.</p>
<p>For the SAT, I read the entire sections for Reading, Writing and Math out of the Blue Book 2010 and did the sample section over three days (one day per section). Then, on the following days, I took a section test from a random section in Test 1 (one 25 minute portion or so). A few days later, I did a full 3 timed sections of a subject per day from Test 2 and 3. I did not practice the essay (I would not recommend this). Since my time with the blue book was limited to about a week, I could not use it completely. This means that my score has room for improvement, but it’s high enough that I know I did something right.</p>