Princeton Review 1296 Practice Questions vs. REAL ACT PREP vs. Actual ACT Test?

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<p>Okay, so I'm scoring consistently between 34 and 35, and between 30 and 33 on the Reading (and on the actual ACT test,) but scores start looking very different with the Math and Science sections.</p>

<p>With the Princeton Review book, I scored a 28 on the Math but on the REAL ACT PREP GUIDE math practice tests, I was scoring consistently between 33 and 34. Is the Princeton Review book harder? I've seen a lot of posts asking this same thing, and I can see a trend where Princeton Review IS harder...but I scored about 28 on the actual ACT I took administered by the school.</p>

<p>About the same for the Science section as well; I score consistently between 30-32 on practice tests from the REAL ACT PREP GUIDE, but then I keep getting 27s to 28s on practice tests in the Princeton Review 1296 book. Then I got a 28 on the Science section on the actual ACT administered by the school.</p>

<p>My question is: which prep book is more like the real ACT test? I understand that the REAL ACT PREP GUIDE book uses actual tests administered previously, but my scores for Math and Science on the actual exam look more like the scores I'm getting on practice tests in the Princeton Review book.</p>

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<p>None, really. I mean, The Red Book is written by ACT themselves. What other commercial companies do are just emulations of the test (so for example, they see a question and just replace its numbers and wording to create a new one.) </p>

<p>I would like to know your Math/Science scores on both The Red Book and PR.</p>

<p>For the time being, did you already take Preparing for the ACT’s tests? There are tonnes of them.</p>

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<p>In the Red Book, on Math: 32-35 and Science: 30-32
In the PR book, on Math: 27-29 and Science: 25-27</p>

<p>I just got my results back from the test I took two weeks ago and I got a 29 on the Math and a 32 on the Science, so I’m not sure which book is most like the actual ACT. I’m going to the store to buy Cracking the ACT 2014 version to prepare for the one in September.</p>