The ACT For Dummies (eBook)

Michelle Rose Gilman, Veronica Saydak, Suzee Vlk (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2005 | 4. Auflage
366 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-471-76274-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Boost your test-taking skills and beat the clock

Prepare for the ACT? quickly and painlessly and maximize yourscore!

Are you one of the millions of students taking the ACT? Have nofear! This friendly guide gives you the competitive edge by fullypreparing you for every section of the ACT, including the optionalwriting test. You get two complete practice tests plus samplequestions -- all updated -- along with proven test-takingstrategies to improve your score.

Discover how to
* Study for each section
* Stay focused during the test
* Manage your time wisely
* Make smart guesses
* Spot test traps and tricks

Autor

Michelle Rose Gilman is proud to be known as Noah'smom (Hi Noah!). A graduate from the University of South Florida,Michelle found her niche early and at 19 was already working withemotionally disturbed and learning-disabled students in hospitalsettings. At 21 she made the trek to California and there she foundher passion for helping teenage students become more successful inschool and life. What started as a small tutoring business in thegarage of her California home, quickly expanded and grew to thepoint where traffic control was necessary on her residentialstreet. Today, Michelle is the Founder and CEO of Fusion LearningCenter, a private school and tutoring/test prep facility in SolanaBeach, CA, serving over 2,000 students per year. She has taughttens of thousands of students since 1988. She created the MentoringApproach to Learning and is the author of various books onself-esteem, writing, and motivational topics. Michelle founded theAddiction and Recovery Division at Fusion and has overseen dozensof programs focused on helping kids become healthy adults. Shecurrently specializes in motivating the unmotivatable adolescent,comforting their shell-shocked parents, and assisting her staff of27 teachers. Veronica Saydak graduated from the University of SanDiego with a Bachelors Degree in English. She found her realeducation in travel and seeing the world. She has traveled to over12 countries, studying various cultures through their literatureand lifestyles. She has been a highly coveted English teacher,specializing in writing, for over 4 years. Currently, Veronica isthe Director of Student Development at Fusion Learning Center,where she is responsible for program development, staffsupervision, and teaching her students on a one-to-one basis. As anadministrator, Veronica specializes in the emotional well-being ofover 400 students. Her wit and humor might not solve theworld's problems but it definitely makes the world feellighter. Although more likely to admit to being a used-car salesperson,Suzee Vlk was a test prep specialist from 1975 to her deathin 2003, working her way through graduate business school and lawschool teaching courses in ACT, SAT I, GRE, GMAT, and LSATpreparation. By her own description, she found the paranoia andtake-no-prisoners mindset required for doing well on the ACT a bighelp in developing cutthroat tactics to use in the boardroom orcourtroom. Eventually, she became president of Suzee Vlk Test Prepand taught thousands of students in dozens of courses atuniversities and private corporations. She wrote material used inSAT and GRE preparation software and videos. Her prep books for theACT and other standardized exams have been published worldwide.

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Introduction.

Part I: Coming to Terms with Reality: An Overview of theACT.

Chapter 1: Getting Your ACT Together: The Format.

Chapter 2: Succeeding on the ACT.

Chapter 3: Reading the Admissions Committee's Mind: WhatColleges Want.

Part II: Serving Your "Sentence": English Reviewand Test.

Chapter 4: Glamour Grammar: The Five-Star Review.

Chapter 5: Misspellers of the World, Untie! Mastering theEnglish Test.

Chapter 6: It's Not What You Say, It's How You SayIt: English Practice Questions.

Part III: Writing the Writing Test Rightly: You Have aChoice.

Chapter 7: ACT Write: The First Words on Essay Writing.

Chapter 8: Write Right: The Writing Test Review.

Chapter 9: Practicing Promptly with Practice Prompts: EssayPractice Examples.

Part IV: Don't Count Yourself Out: The Math Review andMini-Test.

Chapter 10: Ogling More Figures than a Beauty Pageant Judge:Geometry Review.

Chapter 11: Catching Some (X's, Y's,and) Z's: Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids.

Chapter 12: Reviewing Miscellaneous Math You Probably AlreadyKnow.

Chapter 13: Numb and Number: Acing the Mathematics Test.

Chapter 14: More Fun Than a Root Canal: Mathematics PracticeQuestions.

Part V: Time to Read the Riot ACT: The Reading Test.

Chapter 15: This, Too, Shall Pass(age): Sailing through theReading Test .......................................145

Chapter 16: Where Are CliffsNotes When You Need Them? ReadingPractice Questions..............151

Part VI: Proven to Cause Brain Defects in Laboratory Rats:The Science Reasoning Test.

Chapter 17: Frankenstein to Einstein: Excelling on the ScienceReasoning Test.

Chapter 18: Faking Atomic Ache Won't Get You Out of This:Science Practice Questions.

Part VII: I'd Rather Wait for the Movie: Full-LengthPractice ACTs.

Chapter 19: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part I: PracticeExam 1.

Chapter 20: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations.

Chapter 21: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part II: PracticeExam 2.

Chapter 22: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations.

Part VIII: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 23: Ten Wrong Rumors About the ACT.

Chapter 24: Ten Differences between the ACT and the SAT.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Prüfungsvorbereitung • Prüfungsvorbereitung / SAT, ACT • Prüfungsvorbereitung • Prüfungsvorbereitung / SAT, ACT • SAT, ACT Prep • Test Prep
• ISBN-10: 0-471-76274-1 / 0471762741
• ISBN-13: 978-0-471-76274-4 / 9780471762744