CliffsTestPrep ACT (Cliffs Test Prep ACT)

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CliffsTestPrep ACT can help you assess your interests and skills, plan your career, get a scholoarship, and get into a college of your choice. Understanding and practicing test-taking strategies can help a great deal. Subject matter review is particularly useful for the Mathematics Test and English Test. Both subject matter and strategies are reviewed in this book. Inside, you'll find

• Four realistic, full-length practice exams
• Practice questions, answers, and explanations in each chapter
• An action plan for effective preparation
• Four successful overall approaches to taking the ACT
• Detailed analysis of the directions for each section of the test

With extra help on math formulas, science terminology and other ACT trouble spots, this comprehensive guide will help you score your highest. In addition, you'll hone your knowledge of subjects such as

• English usage and mechanics, including punctuation, basic grammar, and sentence structure
• English rhetorical skills, including prose strategy, organization, and style
• Basic math skills, including arithmetic and intermediate algebra
• Applied math, including coordinate geometry, plane geometry, and trigonometry
• Reading comprehension, including prose fiction, humanities, social studies, and natural sciences
• Science reasoning formats, including Data Representation, Research Summaries, and Conflicting Viewpoints

With guidance from the CliffsTestPrep series, you'll feel at home in any standardized -test environment!

However, if you have used up all the practice tests in the book that you are currently using, then I strongly reccommend this book. The book offers four practice tests (even though the cover says it offers two tests.) Each answer is fully explained, which makes the tests a lot better than the other books.

So, if you need review, don't add this book to your cart. If you need more tests, this book is a very good source.

On page 33, "5 x 4=25".
on page 159, question #11 on practice test2, the answers are mistakenly copied from question #10...so the answers don't make any sense for question #11!

These are just two mistakes that I've seen, but judging by that, I wouldn't be suprised to find more. I wish I could return the book, but since I already marked it up, I cannot. Don't buy this book, get a more helpful ACT resource. This book has 4 practice tests, but because of the mistakes, I am relucant to go further.

Finally, the practice problems are more difficult than real ACT problems: CLiffs give you long-winded and confusing explanations for problems you don't even need to know for the actual ACT. I'm sure you can find more consice explanations in other resources. In short, this is not the best choice for getting ready for the ACT.

UPDATE: I recently checked out Princeton Review's CRACKING THE ACT 2002; I highly recommend it for great strategies, tips, and practice material. I also recommend GETTING INTO THE ACT, which is the only review book sponsored by the ACT itself. This is the ONLY book with REAL full-length ACT tests from a few years back;thus, you get familiar with the format of the test and its degree of difficulty. These two books should be all you need to prepare...going through these books..I realized just how useless CliffsTestPrep ACT was.