<p>A very good friend of mine went from a 20 to a 25 with only minimal studying, so this sort of improvement in that range is definitely possible.</p>
<p>i use like, every book</p>
<p>I have like 5 ACT books and a lot of practice tests. They helped tons!</p>
<p>december, like what books--and where did you get practice tests? The internet?</p>
<p>Kaplan (2 of them)
Princeton
Offical ACT GUIDE (2 of them; i haven't used the newer one yet)
Spark Notes</p>
<p>ACT sample test from my school.
and the practice tests from the books.</p>
<p>Just do as many practice tests as you can, and see what happens. (Eng 29 to 34; Math 32 to 35; Reading 21 to 30; and science 33 to 30.) It really helps.</p>
<p>Edit: I didn't do any online practice tests. I just didn't like the layout of them and couldn't do well on them. It's awkward doing problems sitting in front of a comp, IMO.</p>
<p>Well, this is for SAT preparation...for those of you who care...</p>
<p>Anyway, I would reccomend the following as a MUST to raise your SAT score significantly:</p>
<p>SAT: OFFICIAL STUDY GUIDE ************* A MUST!!! contains 8 practice tests ACTUALLY made by collegeboard. A realistic level compared to the real thing, unlike all of the PR or Kaplan books (admit it, even if you are a fan)</p>
<p>Some Kaplan or PR books, to give you extra practice tests...</p>
<p>ROCKET REVOLUTION: NEW SAT...or something like that. This book is the best!!! it literally defies against all common sense and everything we have ever learned, BUT it W O R K S !!!</p>
<p>Also, Rocketreview is written in a very friendly manner...so that anyone reading is not bored with the PR style of writing. PLUS it's a big book so it provides enough review for the best improvement. BUT the best thing comes for all of you who are biting your nails about the essay. With the book, you get a CD- rom...that gives you access to this website that has the following...
ROCKETSCORE: a fascinating tools that uses algorithims and previous human-graded essays and artificial intelligence to ACTUALLY grade an essay. It really works, it's not just a spell-checker.
Omniproctor: a way to simulate test conditions when you take your practice tests...check it out for yourself.
ADAM: no that's not an abbreviation, it's a person. Adam Robinson (also the author of the book) is a very friendly and extremely devoted man, who in return answers any questions and can even GRADE your essays!!!</p>
<p>Anyway...rocketreview is great...it exposes some hidden ideas that no other books have ever shown...like which questions you should spend the least amount of time (the difficult ones is the answer), that quantity is usually more important on the essay than quantity...and NUMEROUS other strategies that i cannot even begin to list. Adam sees a practical view, also the author of CRACKING THE SAT (ever heard of it, it was on the NY Times bestseller list!). </p>
<p>So, get the blue book (SAT official guide), the green book (maybe a kaplan book) and definitely the red book (rocketreview)</p>
<p>AND THEN YOU NEED THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF ALL</p>
<p>your dedication....it really helps trust me...</p>
<p>Now that you have read this extremely long post, i will decide to end it now...now and then, i may pop up with additional info like this one...but i'm done for now.</p>
<p>WHEW! that was a lot of typing!</p>
<p>Have a nice day!</p>
<p>Edit:
..."that quantity is usually more important than "QUALITY"....</p>
<p>not what it says...sorry for the mistake guys..i was typing really fast</p>
<p>I had a PSAT of (600v/670m/720w) which isn't very good, especially because my strength is in verbal areas. All I did was bought the PR book, read up on the verbal (and some math) sections, and did a bunch of practice verbal sections. My SAT: 740v/670m/710w. Big change in verbal. Then again, maybe I had an off day at the PSAT.</p>