The new PR 1296 ACT Question Book.

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<p>is it unanimous that the book is good or bad to help with the ACT? i don’t want to spend the money and realize that it wasn’t worth it … but I’m considering buying the book today … </p>

<p>i’ve had a bad experience with PR review tests but is this one good?</p>

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<p>well i did the first two sections cause i was lazy and didn’t want to do all 4… but :

  1. English (real 31) 27 (partly because probably mom’s interrupting cause she’s on the phone for half of the time). but it’s a little bit harder than the real test.
  2. Math (real 34) 34 math is my strong point… but i seem to have a little less time on this test for some odd reason… harder???
    So overall i think it’s just slightly harder… caught a few typos… but other wise it’s pretty good.</p>
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<p>awesome. i got the book so hopefully it’ll be able to help me achieve the score i’d like. </p>

<p>also, does anybody reccomend the McGraw-Hill’s 10 ACT Practice tests?</p>

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<p>I heard the McGraw book was too easy=P.</p>

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<p>yeah. i prepared with mcgraw hills and got like… 32 on the practice tests and ended up getting 26 on the real test.</p>

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<p>thank you for the input. if there is more, please, post here! :D</p>

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<p>Took a couple of math tests and I have to say they have a lot of long word problems that take a while to read. A lot more long word problems than actual ACTs I’ve taken. But the material seemed pretty right on.</p>

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<p>My daughter has the PR 2009 ACT book-just did an English test and said that there were mistakes. Has anyone else found this with Princeton? She has already taken the tests in the red book.</p>

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<p>mmm … in the 1296 it is better, but i agree, the PR 2009 book has some errors on the english portion. they underline the wrong thing taht wants to be corrected and what not. so, it is a bit off, but i think it might be decent prep. but the 1296 overall is better.</p>

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<p>Just found an error earlier when taking a math test. In the question it says that some angle in the diagram is 43 degrees but in the diagram it is labeled 45 degrees. </p>

<p>Book seems pretty solid but look out for typos.</p>

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<p>maybe we should make a list of all the typos so we can go through and correct them BEFORE we take the tests, yeah?</p>

<p>i suggest this selfishly because im highly considering getting the 1296 book :)</p>

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<p>Look on the second math test in the 20s. It will be one with a triangle and some trig. You’ll see the typo I am talking about.</p>

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<p>This book is really annoying, I make more careless mistakes on this one than than I do on the real test.</p>

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<p>Glad I’m not the only one. Kaplan is annoying as hell too.</p>

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<p>Sooo many bad questions… but other questions r really good… idk…</p>

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<p>Okay, I really hate this book.</p>

<p>For some reason I CONSTANTLY do bad on this one, but I did much better on the red book and on the real test.</p>

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<p>is the 1296 question book HARDER than the red book? because for some reason, i got a 30 on the red book for english, but a 20 on the english … 10 point difference? quite a bit if you ask me.</p>

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<p>Haha idk.</p>

<p>I don’t know if I got worse on the ACT or if I should blame this book.</p>

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<p>lol. maybe PR is taking a Barron’s approach, ultra prep but make you feel crappy about your score. lmao. we’ll see. i’m gonna use the book since i bought it. so hopefully i can finish all the english/reading before the April 4th test … <em>crams crams crams</em></p>

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<p>Been making 29s in math on these tests but making 34s and 32s on real act tests…I need to get to science and reading before april 4.</p>