<p>I need some free study guides and help for the ACT. If you have good experience with something that cost $$ please share! I made a 21 in January and am taking it in June.. Sophomore in high school. Trying to get a full ride!</p>
<p>Real ACT Study Guide is what I used to bump my score from a 32 to a 35. The practice tests are very authentic and it only costs $19.95. I do not recommend Barron’s ACT prep, unless you really want to lose your confidence. Barron’s tests are extremely (thousand times, might be more) harder than the real ACT. Good luck!</p>
<p>Take a bunch of practice tests, the Real ACT guide is great since it has 3 real ACT tests, it costs 19.95, cheaper if you go on amazon</p>
<p>Yes, stick to real tests. The tests from companies like Barrons and Princeton Review didn’t seem to me to be quite like the real thing. I used the official tests in the Real ACT Prep Guide with software on Amazon called Boost Your Score: The Unofficial Software Guide to the Real ACT. That software scores the real tests in The ACT Prep Guide, provides really detailed reports, and then gives you specific resources to improve skills that are weak. Then you go back and take another real ACT and go through the whole process again to improve skills that are still weak. And then you can do it again. After a while, I really felt like I had a handle on everything.</p>
<p>Oh – and the software is $14.95.</p>
<p>Any one have an opinion about Sparknotes ACT prep? I know it is free and I love them for all sorts of other things but never used their ACT prep section. But that might help you, OP, since you are looking for free resources. They have a whole ACT book online.</p>
<p>I got a 36, so this obviously worked for me.</p>
<p>I got two books. Barron’s ACT 36 and The Real ACT. I had already taken it once (34) so I knew where my weaknesses were (english and reading). I read through all of the grammer rules, and the reading strategies, in the 36 book. then I did the questions for those sections. After, I took two of the Real ACT tests. I got a little lucky on test day, but it was my prep that really did it for me. I would reccomend that combination to anybody</p>
<p>The sparknotes ACT prep is good for a quick review and concepts of the ACT, also a booklet called( preparing for the ACT) is good since it contains a practice test and its free from your high school counselor</p>