<p>For the ACT,
McGraw Hill sucks. I did one book with 10 practice tests and ranged from scores of 34 to 36. On the real September ACT, I failed miserably. The book was WAY easier. </p>
<p>SO,
does anyone know which prep book is the best? I heard Princeton Review and Barron are pretty good, but what else?</p>
<p>Just focus on the red book. </p>
<p>That’s what I did - I bought the new book and the old one so I had 7 or 8 tests in total (I only did 4 of them). </p>
<p>I also bought the Barrons 36 but I didn’t find any gains at all in them.</p>
<p>Princetons 1286 and princetons can be helpful also</p>
<p>what are princetons 1286?</p>
<p>and yeah, Barron 36 is decent. I’ve never tried the red one, but that the one I’ll get now, thanks.</p>
<p>The Real ACT Book (Red Book) is definitely the best overall indicator of scores on the ACT, assuming you are taking the tests under a time limit. Don’t forget the free-annual ACT test prep. guide from your local high schools:)</p>
<p>The prep guide, to me, is also WAY easier than the ACT.
Maybe the September ACT was just harder in general? I don’t know. I was like AHH when I got to the test.</p>
<p>if you went through this book (1296, my bad), that probably won’t happen</p>
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<p>honestly the best prep, though, is any kind of old released official test you can get your hands on</p>
<p>Oh! okay, I’ll get that one and the Real ACT prep book, both seem promising.
Thanks guys!</p>