ACT Preparation in 28 Days: A Companion to the Real ACT Prep Guide [Kindle Edition]

Angie Record (Author)

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ACT Preparation in 28 Days helps students increase their ACT scores in just four weeks! As a companion to The Real ACT Prep Guide, this unique and proven method encourages students to practice the skills that they need to improve test performance. This accelerated schedule includes weekly exams and daily homework. Ease your test anxiety. Gain confidence. Follow the approach outlined in ACT Preparation in 28 Days to significantly raise your test scores!

About the Author

An educator since 1991, Dr. Angie Record earned a Ph.D. in Communications from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Media Arts from The University of Arizona, and a B.A. in English from the University of Florida. She has taught at the University of Illinois and The University of Arizona. Currently she is the Owner of A Record Company, LLC, a college coaching and test preparation consultancy (angierecord.com), and the Chief Academic Officer of Global Academic Consultants, Inc., an elite firm dedicated to assisting students as they pursue a boarding school, college, or university education in the United States (globalacademics.us).  Her high success rate affords Dr. Record the opportunity to work with students from all over the world.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 378 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005BCPQI8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,465 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #41 in Books > Education & Reference > Education > Test Guides - College & University > ACT (American College Tests)

More About the Author

An educator since 1991, Dr. Angie Record earned a Ph.D. in Communications from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Media Arts from The University of Arizona, and a B.A. in English from the University of Florida. She has taught at the University of Illinois and The University of Arizona. Currently she is the Owner of A Record Company, LLC, a college coaching and test preparation consultancy (www.angierecord.com), and the Chief Academic Officer of Global Academic Consultants, Inc., an elite firm dedicated to assisting students as they pursue a boarding school, college, or university education in the United States (www.globalacademics.us). Her high success rate affords Dr. Record the opportunity to work with students from all over the world.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A huge disappointment, January 26, 2012

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Patricia D. Brown "pdbrsf" (Rancho Santa Fe, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ACT Preparation in 28 Days: A Companion to The Real ACT Prep Guide (Paperback)

I tutor students for the ACT and SAT full time and all year long; I also take the ACT 3 times each year and score in the 99th percentile, so I know what I am talking about. I am always searching for great new resources to use with my students, so I was looking forward to receiving this "book" (more like a 31 page pamphlet). Despite its few pages, I still thought there could be a few nuggets of wisdom to gain and share with students, especially since the author is well educated and the owner of a test prep consultancy---you certainly would think that something valuable would be found in the pages given her background. However, the 31 page pamphlet is a profound disappointment in many ways. The sole other reviewer mentioned the value of a one page "ACT Prep Schedule" which does little more than spread the taking of the 4 of the 5 Practice Tests in the ACT Real Prep Guide within 28 days. The other actions you are supposed to take within those 28 days are to read pages in her pamphlet, which are so woefully inadequate in terms of math and English content preparation that I would never give this to one of my students. There are far better resources out there to prepare you for the math and English portions of the ACT. What was really troubling is that there is actually some incorrect advice. For example, on page 7 she tells you, "In general, the ACT progresses in difficulty". No it doesn't--only the math section (one of the four sections) progresses in difficulty--English, Reading, and Science do not. The advice she offers for how to take the reading section of the test, in my opinion, is poor. It is the type of advice I often hear given by English teachers who haven't actually taken the ACT in years. She advises you to "read the questions first" and "skim read the passage". That advice certainly works well on other tests, but in my opinion, it's not going to get you a 36 in reading on the ACT. I think it's really poor advice for the reading section of the ACT and pointing a student in the wrong direction in terms of technique for how to conquer the ACT reading test. The advice she gives for the reading section is appropriate for other types of tests (for example, a simple middle school reading test or an un-timed test, but the ACT is aggressively timed and requires more than a skim reading to get a perfect score.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helped Both My Confidence and My Scores, July 31, 2011

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Mike - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACT Preparation in 28 Days: A Companion to the Real ACT Prep Guide (Kindle Edition)

Length:: 0:37 Mins

This supplement uses the practice tests in the Real ACT Prep Guide so you have to purchase that as well. I found the daily schedule to be really useful. It was a lot of work but it was worth it.