<p>Make sure it has explanations in it. Thanks.</p>
<p>(ugh, ussually, im answering questions like this)</p>
<p>It would be best if it has about 8 tests or more.</p>
<p>btw: this thread is really stupid i know. this question has probebly been asked multiple times and answered multiple times. please, just answer it and let it die.</p>
<p>Yes, it's been asked multiple times and the most common answers are the official book and Cracking the ACT. I think together they may have 8 tests, but I don't know of any one book that does. The Cracking book has answer explanations.</p>
<p>Use whatever real ones you can find. The ones that the commercial test prep companies come up with on their own don't always match the actual test very well.</p>
<p>Does Cracking the Act and the offical one have explainations? Its important to know why you got a question wrong.</p>
<p>yes, they both supply explanations.</p>
<p>princeton review's cracking the act offers pretty straightforward explanations, while THE Real ACT offers indepth explanations and also tells you why you picked the incorrect answer.</p>
<p>Well, I was looking at the real act, but it only has 3 tests. is there a place where i can find more? (i think the best way to study is to just do a bunch of practice tests.)</p>
<p>I think the official ones. They're very accurate, because I scored somewhere between 34-36 on them, and I received a 35 on the real one</p>
<p>Look at the thread "Lots of ACT Practice Tests." Mrs. Ferguson explains ways to find some more.</p>
<p>Could you please post a link? thanks!</p>
<p>I'll do you one better. Here is what she said:</p>
<p>I don't know of any single source of more than 3 ACT practice tests, but there are at least 16 DIFFERENT retired tests available from ACT. It would be expensive to get them all yourself, but you could give this list to your guidance office and suggest that they start a library if they don't already have one. The numbers below are the number of tests available in each format.</p>
<p>These are free:
1 Preparing for the ACT booklet (in reg packet or from guidance office, or download at <a href="http://www.act.org/path/secondary/resources.html%5B/url%5D">www.act.org/path/secondary/resources.html</a>)
1 ACT Website (<a href="http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html%5B/url%5D">www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html</a>)</p>
<p>You can order these at <a href="http://www.act.org/store/index.html:%5B/url%5D">www.act.org/store/index.html:</a>
3 Real ACT Prep Guide book
2 ACT Online Prep
3* Sample test booklets for students
3* Sample test booklets for institutions</p>
<p>*There are only 2 on the website/order form, but if you call customer service you can get a third one. You may be able to order the institution ones if you call, or you might have to ask your high school to order these for you. They come out with one new student and one new institution sample test every couple years, so see if your guidance office has any of the old ones that you can't order anymore (test forms are printed on the booklets).</p>
<p>2 ACTive Prep software
You can't order this anymore, but you can find it used on eBay or Amazon or see if your high school has a copy.</p>
<p>1 Large print sample test booklet
I don't know how to get this. You could try calling customer service or see if your high school has a copy.</p>
<p>Another source of retired tests is Test Information Release, a service that lets you purchase a copy of the test and your answers after the December, April, and June test dates. You could ask people who tested on these dates and used this service if you can borrow their booklets, or suggest that your school ask students to donate their booklets to the guidance office.</p>
<p>Oh!! Guidence! My guidence office has a ton of books like this, I should just check one out! I never thought of that before. Thank You very very much Diane R, and also thanks to the origianal poster.</p>
<p>You're welcome. Good luck!</p>