McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill's 10 Practice Acts) [Paperback]

Steven Dulan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007159146X | ISBN-13: 978-0071591461 | Publication Date: May 30, 2008 | Edition: 2

We want to give you the practice you need on the ACT

McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests helps you gauge what the test measures, how it's structured, and how to budget your time in each section. Written by the founder and faculty of Advantage Education, one of America's most respected providers of school-based test-prep classes, this book provides you with the intensive ACT practice that will help your scores improve from each test to the next. You'll be able to sharpen your skills, boost your confidence, reduce your stress-and to do your very best on test day.

• 10 complete sample ACT exams, with full explanations for every answer
• 10 sample writing prompts for the optional ACT essay portion
• Scoring Worksheets to help you calculate your total score for every test
• Expert guidance in prepping students for the ACT
• More practice and extra help online

ACT is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc., which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

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About the Author

Steven W. Dulan and the faculty of Advantage Education have successfully prepared thousands of students for the ACT and other exams at high schools and colleges throughout the United States and over the Internet via their Personal Distance LearningSM system.

Product Details

• Paperback: 435 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2 edition (May 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007159146X
• ISBN-13: 978-0071591461
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Education & Reference > Education > Workbooks
  • #67 in Books > Education & Reference > Education > Test Guides - College & University > ACT (American College Tests)

More About the Author

Steven W. Dulan and the faculty of Advantage Education have successfully prepared thousands of students for the ACT and other exams at colleges and high schools throughout the United States and over the Internet via their Personal Distance LearningSM system.

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A necessary resource to improve ACT score, October 31, 2008

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Nicolas Joosten (Darien, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill's 10 Practice Acts) (Paperback)

I used this book along with the Real ACT book, the Sparknotes Guide to the ACT book, and the Dummies ACT prep book. I found that this book was one of the more helpful ones. I was skeptical at first to buy this book, as the ACT content can get distorted when it isn't written by the actual ACT writers. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the practice tests in the book resemble the real ACT tests greatly. The writers of the 10 McGraw Hill Practice ACT (as stated in the introduction) analytically scrutinized the content of the real ACT and emulated it in the 10 practice tests. The only defect is the answer explanations. The explanations are very succinct and sometimes you don't understand why you got the wrong answer. But that is not the case with all the answer explanations. In order to significantly improve your score, taking practice ACT tests greatly helps. Therefore, this is one of the best resources to use to improve your ACT score.

This book helped me get a 33!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Close to the real ACT format -- but not exact, October 4, 2009

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Jessie Schodak "Aiming for a 36" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill's 10 Practice Acts) (Paperback)

I feel like I have been through nearly every ACT prep product sold on Amazon. I have been working to get a 99th percentile ACT score without spending big bucks on private tutoring or a prep class. I figured I should post a review with my feelings about these products to prevent other students from having to do all the shopping around that I did.

I used this book, The Real ACT Prep Guide: The Only Official Prep Guide From The Makers Of The ACT, Boost Your Score! The Unofficial Software Guide to the Real ACT, a Kaplan book,The ACT For Dummies and a Princeton Review book. I took the test in June and September and I have been studying since last December.

Here is how I felt about this product. Like another reviewer mentioned, the tests did seem a little easier than the real thing. When I worked with materials that relied on official ACT materials (the Real ACT Prep Guide and the Boost Your Score software that is compatible with it) I found that many math problems required multiple steps, with a small sneaky hook at the end. For example, you'd have to solve a quadratic equation, but then the question would ask you what the PRODUCT of the two roots was. But two of the answer choices would be the roots themselves. Sneaky, right? Generally, the McGraw-Hill tests were just not that sneaky. In my case, I really had to practice more than just skills. I had to learn out to "out think" the test. For me, I found that using official tests worked best to teach me how to do that.

That said, I still thought this product was helpful and I would recommend it to others. There's something nice about having so many practice tests in one place. It gave me the flexibility to play around with different test sections as I worked on proper pacing, without having to worry I was "wasting" a test (as I felt with the Real ACT Prep Guide, since it only has 3 tests in it).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Different Point of View, September 13, 2009

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top opening reviewer (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: McGraw-Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill's 10 Practice Acts) (Paperback)

On contrary to some of the other reviewers, I found this book a little on the easy side compared to REAL ACT tests epecially in the math. Yes, this book similiar in questions but the difficulty level is something to take notice of. For example, in the math section, one reoccuring question that appears on all of the test multiple time is "What is the slope of the line 2x+4y=1, or vice-versa with a question dealing with the y-intercept. The ACT will not typically be this generous to you so be warned. And yet another example can be taken from the Reading Section. The passages generally seemed more easy to read than the real thing however, I will give them that questions were very similar to REAL ACT questions.

Overall, a good book to boost your confidence, but not a book to significantly raise your score to the 32-36 range due to the slight inaccurcies and sometimes rather short explanations. If you are looking for a score of 26-29, I do not see any problem with this book then.

One of the reviewers said he achieved a 33. I am nearly positive this was due the excellent book "The Real ACT" which he said he used. The reason for this is that book contans REAL ACT tests that have been administered before.
At the end of the day, you are what you practice so choose your test prep book with that in mind.