| Introduction |
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Figuring Out How Long All This Studying Will Take |
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| Part 1: Coming To Terms With Reality: An Overview Of The Act |
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Chapter 1 Getting Your ACT Together: ACT 101 |
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What Not to Take to the ACT |
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What to Do If You Have Special Circumstances |
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Guessing for Points to Maximize Your Score |
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Your Number's Up: Scoring on the ACT |
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What the ACT Expects You to Know |
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Repeating the Test for a Better Score |
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Chapter 2 Succeeding on the ACT |
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Surviving the ACT with Four Stress-Busters |
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Thinking positive thoughts |
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Avoiding a Few Dumb Mistakes That Can Mess Up Your ACT |
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Messing up on the answer grid |
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Worrying about previous sections |
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Worrying about the hard problems |
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Forgetting to double-check |
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Chapter 3 Surviving the College Admissions Process |
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What's the Main Thing Colleges Look For? |
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How Do Higher ACT Scores Increase My Scholarship Chances? |
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Do Schools Care Whether I Repeat the ACT? |
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What Classes Should I Take in High School? |
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How Helpful Are Sports and Charity? |
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What Should I Say on the College Essay? |
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What Will They Ask Me in the Interview and What Should I Say? |
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How Do I Decide Which School Is Best for Me? |
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What's the Biggest Mistake Most Students Make in College Planning? |
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How Do I Make My Final Decision? |
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| Part 2: Serving Your "Sentence": The English Test |
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Chapter 4 Mastering the English Test |
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Figuring Out What the English Questions Want You to Know |
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Seeing Is Believing: The Test's Format |
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Their Pain, Your Gain: Looking Out for Traps That Others Fall into |
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Chapter 5 Getting a Grip on Grammar and Usage |
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Reviewing the Parts of Speech |
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Getting in the action with verbs |
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Identifying the culprit with nouns |
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Avoiding repeating yourself with pronouns |
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Defining nouns with adjectives |
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Clarifying the questions with adverbs |
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Joining together with conjunctions and prepositions |
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Piecing Together the Parts of a Sentence |
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Keeping Track of Punctuation Rules for Every Occasion |
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Periods and question marks |
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Chapter 6 Spotting Usage Errors and Ripping through Rhetorical Questions |
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Spotting Questions That Test Standard English Conventions |
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Properly placing punctuation marks |
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Picking up on pronoun errors |
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Calling out sentence fragments |
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Identifying problems with parallelism |
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Recognizing misplaced modifiers |
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Checking for Proper Production of Writing |
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Eliminating superfluous words |
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Determining the function of a deletion |
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Creating smooth transitions |
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Organizing and positioning elements |
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Sticking to appropriate vocabulary and standard expressions |
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Chapter 7 It's Not What You Say but How You Say It: English Practice Questions |
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| Part 3: Don't Count Yourself Out: The Math Test |
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Chapter 8 Numbers Nuts and Bolts |
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The Wonderful World of Numbers |
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Keeping it real: Types of numbers |
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Lining things up along the number line |
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Understanding absolute value |
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Getting familiar with prime numbers and factorization |
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Minor Surgery: Basic Math Operations |
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Working with odds/evens and positives/negatives |
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Focusing on Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages |
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Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages |
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Eyeing Ratios and Proportions |
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Covering Your Bases: Exponents |
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Smooth Operator: Order of Operations |
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Dealing with Average, Median, Mode, and More |
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Doing better than average on averages |
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Weighing in on weighted averages |
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Abracadabra: Elementary Algebra |
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Adding and subtracting expressions |
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Multiplying and dividing expressions |
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Solving a system of equations |
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Chapter 9 Getting into Shapes: Geometry and Trig Review |
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Zeroing in on similar triangles |
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Figuring out area and perimeter |
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Taking the shortcut: Pythagorean triples and other common side ratios |
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Thanks 4 Nothing: A Quick Look at Quadrilaterals |
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Missing Parrots and Other Polly-Gones (Or Should We Say "Polygons"?) |
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Running Around in Circles |
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Trying Your Hand at Trigonometry |
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Introducing trigonometric functions |
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Circumventing the unit circle |
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Graphing trig functions on a coordinate plane |
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Applying the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines |
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Chapter 10 Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids |
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Using Your Imagination: Complex Numbers |
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Too Hip to Be Square: Roots and Radicals |
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Adding and subtracting radicals |
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Multiplying and dividing radicals |
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Working from the inside out |
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Thinking Exponentially: Logarithms |
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Barely Functioning with Functions |
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Taking a Flight on the Coordinate Plane |
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Defining the coordinate plane |
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Knowing which formulas you need to guide your flight |
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Evaluating graphs of functions |
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Picking Your Way through Percent Increase, Probability, Permutations, and Combinations |
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Managing the ups and downs |
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Calculating outcomes and orderings |
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Chapter 11 Numb and Number: Acing the Mathematics Test |
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What You See Is What You Get: The Format and Breakdown of the Math Test |
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: What Isn't on the Math Test |
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Getting into the Grind: The Approach |
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Translating English into Math |
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Time Flies When You're Having Fun: Timing Tips |
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Skim for your favorite questions |
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Backsolve when the answers are actual values |
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Plug in values for variables |
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Kindly refrain from showing off everything you know |
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Put aside two minutes to fill in the remaining ovals |
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Do's, Don'ts, and Darns: What to Do and Not Do on the Math Test |
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Don't start working until you've read the entire problem |
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Do reread the problem with your answer inserted |
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Don't strike out over a difficult question early on |
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Chapter 12 More Fun than a Root Canal: Mathematics Practice Questions |
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| Part 4: Time To Read The Riot Act: The Reading Test |
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Chapter 13 This, Too, Shall Pass(age): Sailing through the Reading Test |
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Facing 40 Questions: The Reading Test |
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Getting Prepared: Reading Test Strategies |
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Approach passages efficiently |
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Skim the passage effectively |
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Skip a passage if necessary |
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Identifying Reading Question Types and Formats |
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Find key ideas and details |
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Determine craft and structure |
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Integrate knowledge and ideas |
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Approaching Comparative Passages |
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Chapter 14 Where Are SparkNotes When You Need Them? Reading Practice Questions |
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| Part 5: Studying Brain Defects In Laboratory Rats: The Science Test |
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Chapter 15 From Frankenstein to Einstein: Excelling on the Science Test |
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Examining the Science Test's Format |
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Classifying Passage Format |
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Data-representation passages |
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Analyzing Tables, Graphs, and Diagrams |
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Examining Experimental Procedures |
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Independent and dependent variables |
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Immersing Yourself in Answer Choices |
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Considering Question Types |
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Questions about procedure |
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Questions about viewpoints |
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Chapter 16 Faking Atomic Ache Won't Get You out of This: Science Practice Questions |
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| Part 6: Writing Rightly: The Optional Writing Test |
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Chapter 17 Excelling on Your Essay: The Writing Test Review |
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What to Expect From the ACT Writing Test |
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Making the Grade: How the ACT Folks Score Your Essay |
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Examining the Prompt and Creating a Thesis |
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Putting Up Your Dukes: Defending Your Perspective |
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Throwing a Good First Punch: The Hook |
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The Proof Is in the Pudding: Defending Yourself |
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Mixing things up with a variety of examples |
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Forming logical arguments |
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Hamburger Writing: Organizing Your Essay |
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The top bun: Introduction |
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The three meats: Example paragraphs |
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The lettuce, tomato, and special sauce: Transitions |
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The bottom bun: Conclusion |
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Wielding the Red Pen: Editing and Proofing |
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Using the touch method to look for spelling mistakes and ghost words |
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Calling all action verbs: Be descriptive |
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Avoiding problems with punk-tu-a-tion: Punctuate properly |
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Handwriting check: Write legibly |
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Referring to the perspectives by number |
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Sticking to the status quo |
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Using words you don't know |
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Being overly critical of yourself |
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Repeating yourself over and over again |
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Failing to edit your essay |
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Reviewing Some Example Essays and Their Scores |
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1 - 1 is the loneliest number: How not to be a 1 |
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2 - 2 little 2 late: Steering clear of coming in second |
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3 - Still finding yourself on the wrong side of the tracks |
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4 - Reaching 4 a better score |
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5 - Shining brightly: A 5-star winner |
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6 - Unlocking the code to a perfect score |
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Chapter 18 Practicing Promptly with Practice Prompts: Essay Practice Questions |
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| Part 7: Putting It All Together With Three Full-Length Practice Acts |
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Chapter 19 Practice Exam 1 |
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Chapter 20 Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations |
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Score One for Your Side: The Scoring Guide |
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Answer Key for Practice Exam 1 |
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Chapter 21 Practice Exam 2 |
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Chapter 22 Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations |
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Answer Key for Practice Exam 2 |
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Chapter 23 Practice Exam 3 |
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Chapter 24 Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations |
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Answer Key for Practice Exam 3 |
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| Part 8: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 25 Ten Wrong Rumors about the ACT |
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You Can't Study for the ACT |
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Different States Have Different ACTS |
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The ACT Has a Passing Score |
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You Can't Use a Calculator on the ACT |
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You Should Never Guess on the ACT |
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The ACT Is Easier Than the SAT |
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Selective Colleges Prefer the SAT to the ACT |
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You Have to Write an Essay |
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You Shouldn't Take Both the SAT and the ACT |
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Chapter 26 Attention, Parents! Ten Ways You Can Help Your Child Succeed on the ACT |
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Give Awesome Test-Prep Materials |
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Supply a Good Study Environment |
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Take Practice Tests Together |
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Help Memorize Math Formulas |
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Explore Colleges Together |
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Arrive at the Test Site on Time |
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Help Keep a Proper Perspective |
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| Index |
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