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,Contents at a Glance
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Part 1: Coming to Terms with Reality:
An Overview of the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
CHAPTER 1: Getting Your ACT Together: ACT 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
CHAPTER 2: Succeeding on the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
CHAPTER 3: Forming an ACT Study Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Part 2: Serving Your “Sentence”: The English Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
CHAPTER 4: Mastering the English Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
CHAPTER 5: Getting a Grip on Grammar and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
CHAPTER 6: Spotting Usage Errors and Ripping through Rhetorical Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
CHAPTER 7: It’s Not What You Say but How You Say It: English Practice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Part 3: Don’t Count Yourself Out: The Math Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
CHAPTER 8: Numbers Nuts and Bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
CHAPTER 9: Getting into Shapes: Geometry and Trig Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
CHAPTER 10: Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

CHAPTER 11: Numb and Number: Acing the Mathematics Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
CHAPTER 12: More Fun than a Root Canal: Mathematics Practice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Part 4: Time to Read the Riot ACT: The Reading Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
CHAPTER 13: This, Too, Shall Pass(age): Sailing through the Reading Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
CHAPTER 14: Where Are SparkNotes When You Need Them? Reading Practice Questions . . . . . . . .177



Part 5: Studying Brain Defects in Laboratory Rats:
The Science Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
CHAPTER 15: From Frankenstein to Einstein: Excelling on the Science Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
CHAPTER 16: Faking Atomic Ache Won’t Get You out of This:
Science Practice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Part 6: Writing Rightly: The Optional Writing Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217
CHAPTER 17: Excelling on Your Essay: The Writing Test Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219
CHAPTER 18: Practicing Promptly with Practice Prompts: Essay Practice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237



Part 7: Putting It All Together with a Full-Length
Practice ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241
CHAPTER 19: Practice Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243
CHAPTER 20: Practice Exam: Answers and Explanations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291

Part 8: The Part of Tens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333
CHAPTER 21: Ten Wrong Rumors about the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335
CHAPTER 22: Attention, Parents! Ten Ways You Can Help Your Child Succeed on the ACT . . . . . . . . .339



Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343

,Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Foolish Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Icons Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Beyond the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Figuring Out How Long All This Studying Will Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PART 1: COMING TO TERMS WITH REALITY:
AN OVERVIEW OF THE ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

CHAPTER 1: Getting Your ACT Together: ACT 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
What to Take to the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
What Not to Take to the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
What to Do If You Have Special Circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Guessing for Points to Maximize Your Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Your Number’s Up: Scoring on the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
What the ACT Expects You to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Repeating the Test for a Better Score . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

CHAPTER 2: Succeeding on the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Surviving the ACT with Four Stress-Busters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Inhaling deeply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Stretching a little . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Thinking positive thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Practicing POE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Avoiding a Few Dumb Mistakes That Can Mess Up Your ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Losing concentration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Panicking over time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Messing up on the answer grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Rubbernecking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Cheating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Worrying about previous sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Worrying about the hard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Forgetting to double-check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

CHAPTER 3: Forming an ACT Study Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
When to Take the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Planning Your Study Time for Maximum Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
If you have six months to prepare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
If you have six weeks to prepare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
If you have three weeks to prepare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25




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, PART 2: SERVING YOUR “SENTENCE”: THE ENGLISH TEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

CHAPTER 4: Mastering the English Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Figuring Out What the English Questions Want You to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Seeing Is Believing: The Test’s Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The passages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The question types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Their Pain, Your Gain: Looking Out for Traps That Others Fall into . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

CHAPTER 5: Getting a Grip on Grammar and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Reviewing the Parts of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Getting in the action with verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Identifying the culprit with nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Avoiding repeating yourself with pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Defining nouns with adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Clarifying the questions with adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Joining together with conjunctions and prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Piecing Together the Parts of a Sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Subjects and predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Phrases and clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Keeping Track of Punctuation Rules for Every Occasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Periods and question marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Semicolons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Colons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Commas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Dashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

CHAPTER 6: Spotting Usage Errors and Ripping through
Rhetorical Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Spotting Questions That Test Standard English Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Properly placing punctuation marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Picking up on pronoun errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Forming possessives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Evaluating verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Calling out sentence fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Identifying problems with parallelism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Recognizing misplaced modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Checking for Proper Production of Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Eliminating superfluous words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Completing the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Determining the function of a deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Pondering an addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Creating smooth transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Organizing and positioning elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Seeing the big picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Sticking to appropriate vocabulary and standard expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

CHAPTER 7: It’s Not What You Say but How You Say It:
English Practice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61




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