Cracking the ACT, 2001 Edition

Princeton Review realizes that acing the ACT is very different from getting straight As in school. They don't try to teach students everything there is to know about math, reading, and English--only the techniques they'll need to score higher on the ACT. There's a big difference. In Cracking the ACT, TPR will teach test takers how to think like the test makers and:*Use process of elimination to eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool test takers*Ace the English test by learning how to spot sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation errors quickly*Crack algebra problems by Plugging In numbers in place of letters*Score higher on reading comprehension by learning to zero in on main ideas, topic sentences, and key words*Solve science reasoning problems by scanning the passage for critical wordsThis book includes The Princeton Review Assessment, a full-length diagnostic exam that will predict test takers approximate scores on both the ACT and the SAT. The questions on this test are just like the ones test takers will find on the real ACT and SAT.Contents:I OrientationTriageGuessing and POETaking the ACTII How to Beat the ACT English TestSentence StructureGrammar and UsagePunctuationRhetorical SkillsIII How to Beat the ACT Math TestBasicsArithmeticAlgebraGeometryGraphing and Coordinate GeometryTrigonometryIV How to Beat the ACT Reading TestDistractersThe Four-Step SystemV How to Beat the ACT Science Reading TestData RepresentationExperimental ReasoningAlternative ViewpointsVI The Princeton Review AssessmentHow to Score the PRAUsing the PRA