I’ve decided to practice for the ACT. However, I am having trouble finding the right book. My first investment is Cracking the ACT.I don’t really know if it will help improve my score or not. My current score is 25, and I want to boost it to 30 by December.
It is a good one. However, it would not be enough if you have a 5 point gap. Before you purchase any book, check your local and school library. My Ds went through all the prep books available in the public library in the summer before Junior year. Both got around a 5-point boost after the preparation.
Stick to practicing with official tests. Princeton Review will only give you its practice tests, which are not as accurate as the real thing. If you do some digging, you’ll be able to locate official recent exams. Take them timed like the real thing.
My daughter did all of them…literally red book, black, princeton, barrons, we have 300$ in books, 200 hours in study time, 30 hours with a tutor who went to Cornell bright girl [25]. Also did realtestprep.com too lol.
My daughter is a 3.88 student DC/AP who has the common sense of a stump. She will miss a % math problem or a easy question and just pull blanks at times. She went from a 1200 freshman year SAT to 28 ACT sophomore year (total time between tests 7 months though).
3 points in 7 months…but she says “I feel smarter” that matters lol.
She is hoping for a 32-33 by end of junior year. All I can say is practice practice practice and always do them timed.