ACT Prep 2023 For Dummies 9th Edition by Lisa Zimmer Hatch, Scott A Hatch ISBN 9781119886822 1119886821

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ISBN 10: 1119886821
ISBN 13: 9781119886822
Author: Lisa Zimmer Hatch, Scott A Hatch

Conquer test anxiety and prepare for the ACT like a pro
Every year, hundreds of thousands of high school students take the ACT as part of the college admissions process. A good score on this exam could be the deciding factor that gets you accepted to your dream school. In ACT Prep 2023 For Dummies with Online Practice , you’ll find the hands-on and practical tools needed to succeed. Whether you need a math refresher or handy tips to power through the reading comprehension section, this book will guide you through each part of the exam with easy-to-read explanations, flash cards, and practice tests.
In the book, you’ll find:
Online access to useful practice tests Updated information on the reading comprehension section, as well as improved strategies for answering reading questions Fulsome explanations, descriptions, and techniques for all four required ACT subject areas―math, science, reading, and English―and the optional essay A must-have resource for anyone preparing for the challenging ACT exam, ACT Prep 2023 For Dummies with Online Practice can help you maximize your chances of getting into your dream university or college, as well as give you a leg up on securing valuable scholarships.

ACT Prep 2023 For Dummies 9th Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 Coming to Terms with Reality: An Overview of the ACT
Chapter 1 Getting Your ACT Together: ACT 101
What to Take to the ACT
What Not to Take to the ACT
What to Do If You Have Special Circumstances
Guessing for Points to Maximize Your Score
Your Number’s Up: Scoring on the ACT
What the ACT Expects You to Know
Repeating the Test for a Better Score
Chapter 2 Succeeding on the ACT
Surviving the ACT with Four Stress-Busters
Inhaling deeply
Stretching a little
Thinking positive thoughts
Practicing POE
Avoiding a Few Dumb Mistakes That Can Mess Up Your ACT
Losing concentration
Panicking over time
Messing up on the answer grid
Rubbernecking
Cheating
Worrying about previous sections
Worrying about the hard problems
Forgetting to double-check
Chapter 3 Surviving the College Admissions Process
What’s the Main Thing Colleges Look For?
How Do Higher ACT Scores Increase My Scholarship Chances?
Do Schools Care Whether I Repeat the ACT?
What Classes Should I Take in High School?
How Helpful Are Sports and Charity?
What Should I Say on the College Essay?
What Will They Ask Me in the Interview and What Should I Say?
How Do I Decide Which School Is Best for Me?
What’s the Biggest Mistake Most Students Make in College Planning?
How Do I Make My Final Decision?
Part 2 Serving Your “Sentence”: The English Test
Chapter 4 Mastering the English Test
Figuring Out What the English Questions Want You to Know
Seeing Is Believing: The Test’s Format
The passages
The question types
Their Pain, Your Gain: Looking Out for Traps That Others Fall into
Chapter 5 Getting a Grip on Grammar and Usage
Reviewing the Parts of Speech
Getting in the action with verbs
Identifying the culprit with nouns
Avoiding repeating yourself with pronouns
Defining nouns with adjectives
Clarifying the questions with adverbs
Joining together with conjunctions and prepositions
Piecing Together the Parts of a Sentence
Subjects and predicates
Phrases and clauses
Keeping Track of Punctuation Rules for Every Occasion
Periods and question marks
Semicolons
Colons
Commas
Dashes
Apostrophes
Chapter 6 Spotting Usage Errors and Ripping through Rhetorical Questions
Spotting Questions That Test Standard English Conventions
Properly placing punctuation marks
Picking up on pronoun errors
Forming possessives
Evaluating verbs
Calling out sentence fragments
Identifying problems with parallelism
Recognizing misplaced modifiers
Checking for Proper Production of Writing
Eliminating superfluous words
Completing the mission
Determining the function of a deletion
Pondering an addition
Creating smooth transitions
Organizing and positioning elements
Seeing the big picture
Sticking to appropriate vocabulary and standard expressions
Chapter 7 It’s Not What You Say but How You Say It: English Practice Questions
Part 3 Don’t Count Yourself Out: The Math Test
Chapter 8 Numbers Nuts and Bolts
The Wonderful World of Numbers
Keeping it real: Types of numbers
Lining things up along the number line
Understanding absolute value
Getting familiar with prime numbers and factorization
Minor Surgery: Basic Math Operations
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying and dividing
Working with odds/evens and positives/ negatives
Focusing on Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages
Working with fractions
Pondering percentages
Eyeing Ratios and Proportions
Ratios
Proportions
Covering Your Bases: Exponents
Smooth Operator: Order of Operations
Dealing with Average, Median, Mode, and More
Doing better than average on averages
Weighing in on weighted averages
Mastering medians
Managing modes
Getting ready for range
Abracadabra: Elementary Algebra
Variables 101
Solving simple equations
Adding and subtracting expressions
Multiplying and dividing expressions
Curses! FOILed again
Extracting by factoring
Solving a system of equations
Chapter 9 Getting into Shapes: Geometry and Trig Review
Toeing the Line
Analyzing Angles
Triangle Trauma
Classifying triangles
Sizing up triangles
Zeroing in on similar triangles
Figuring out area and perimeter
Taking the shortcut: Pythagorean triples and other common side ratios
Thanks 4 Nothing: A Quick Look at Quadrilaterals
Missing Parrots and Other Polly-Gones (Or Should We Say “Polygons”?)
Measuring up polygons
Solving for volume
Running Around in Circles
Trying Your Hand at Trigonometry
Introducing trigonometric functions
Circumventing the unit circle
Measuring in radians
Graphing trig functions on a coordinate plane
Applying the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines
Chapter 10 Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids
Suffering Inequalities
Using Your Imagination: Complex Numbers
Too Hip to Be Square: Roots and Radicals
Adding and subtracting radicals
Multiplying and dividing radicals
Working from the inside out
Thinking Exponentially: Logarithms
Log rules
Natural logarithms
Barely Functioning with Functions
Taking a Flight on the Coordinate Plane
Defining the coordinate plane
Knowing which formulas you need to guide your flight
Graphing more functions
Evaluating graphs of functions
Picking Your Way through Percent Increase, Probability, Permutations, and Combinations
Managing the ups and downs
Practicing probability
Finding the probability of multiple events
Calculating outcomes and orderings
Setting Up Sequences
Managing Matrices
Chapter 11 Numb and Number: Acing the Mathematics Test
What You See Is What You Get: The Format and Breakdown of the Math Test
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: What Isn’t on the Math Test
Getting into the Grind: The Approach
Translating English into Math
Time Flies When You’re Having Fun: Timing Tips
Skim for your favorite questions
Backsolve when the answers are actual values
Plug in values for variables
Kindly refrain from showing off everything you know
Put aside two minutes to fill in the remaining ovals
Do’s, Don’ts, and Darns: What to Do and Not Do on the Math Test
Do get the lead out
Don’t start working until you’ve read the entire problem
Do reread the problem with your answer inserted
Don’t strike out over a difficult question early on
Chapter 12 More Fun than a Root Canal: Mathematics Practice Questions
Part 4 Time to Read the Riot ACT: The Reading Test
Chapter 13 This, Too, Shall Pass(age): Sailing through the Reading Test
Facing 40 Questions: The Reading Test
Timing
Scoring
Getting Prepared: Reading Test Strategies
Approach passages efficiently
Skim the passage effectively
Skip a passage if necessary
Identifying Reading Question Types and Formats
Find key ideas and details
Determine craft and structure
Integrate knowledge and ideas
Approaching Comparative Passages
Chapter 14 Where Are SparkNotes When You Need Them? Reading Practice Questions
Part 5 Studying Brain Defects in Laboratory Rats: The Science Test
Chapter 15 From Frankenstein to Einstein: Excelling on the Science Test
Examining the Science Test’s Format
Classifying Passage Format
Data-representation passages
Research summaries
Conflicting viewpoints
Analyzing Tables, Graphs, and Diagrams
Tackling tables
Grappling with graphs
Dissecting diagrams
Examining Experimental Procedures
Independent and dependent variables
The control
Immersing Yourself in Answer Choices
Considering Question Types
Questions about results
Questions about procedure
Questions about viewpoints
Chapter 16 Faking Atomic Ache Won’t Get You out of This: Science Practice Questions
Passage
Initial Analysis
Questions
Part 6 Writing Rightly: The Optional Writing Test
Chapter 17 Excelling on Your Essay: The Writing Test Review
What to Expect From the ACT Writing Test
Making the Grade: How the ACT Folks Score Your Essay
Examining the Prompt and Creating a Thesis
Putting Up Your Dukes: Defending Your Perspective
Throwing a Good First Punch: The Hook
The Proof Is in the Pudding: Defending Yourself
Using specific examples
Mixing things up with a variety of examples
Forming logical arguments
Hamburger Writing: Organizing Your Essay
The top bun: Introduction
The three meats: Example paragraphs
The lettuce, tomato, and special sauce: Transitions
The bottom bun: Conclusion
Wielding the Red Pen: Editing and Proofing
Using the touch method to look for spelling mistakes and ghost words
Calling all action verbs: Be descriptive
Avoiding problems with punk-tu-a-tion: Punctuate properly
Handwriting check: Write legibly
Writing Don’ts
Writing before you think
Panicking about time
Referring to the perspectives by number
Sticking to the status quo
Using words you don’t know
Being overly critical of yourself
Writing like you speak
Repeating yourself over and over again
Failing to edit your essay
Reviewing Some Example Essays and Their Scores
1 — 1 is the loneliest number: How not to be a 1
2 — 2 little 2 late: Steering clear of coming in second
3 — Still finding yourself on the wrong side of the tracks
4 — Reaching 4 a better score
5 — Shining brightly: A 5-star winner
6 — Unlocking the code to a perfect score
Chapter 18 Practicing Promptly with Practice Prompts: Essay Practice Questions
Writing Prompt 1
Writing Prompt 2
Part 7 Putting It All Together with Three Full-Length Practice ACTs
Chapter 19 Practice Exam 1
Answer Sheet
English Test
Mathematics Test
Reading Test
Science Test
Writing Test
Chapter 20 Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations
English Test
Mathematics Test
Reading Test
Science Test
Writing Test
Sample response
Score One for Your Side: The Scoring Guide
Answer Key for Practice Exam 1
Chapter 21 Practice Exam 2
Answer Sheet
English Test
Mathematics Test
Reading Test
Science Test
Writing Test
Chapter 22 Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations
English Test
Mathematics Test
Reading Test
Science Test
Writing Test
Sample response
Answer Key for Practice Exam 2
Chapter 23 Practice Exam 3
Answer Sheet
English Test
Mathematics Test
Reading Test
Science Test
Writing Test
Chapter 24 Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations
English Test
Mathematics Test
Reading Test
Science Test
Writing Test
Sample response
Answer Key for Practice Exam 3
Part 8 The Part of Tens
Chapter 25 Ten Wrong Rumors about the ACT
You Can’t Study for the ACT
Different States Have Different ACTs
The ACT Has a Passing Score
The ACT Tests IQ
You Can’t Use a Calculator on the ACT
You Should Never Guess on the ACT
The ACT Is Easier Than the SAT
Selective Colleges Prefer the SAT to the ACT
You Have to Write an Essay
You Shouldn’t Take Both the SAT and the ACT
Chapter 26 Attention, Parents! Ten Ways You Can Help Your Child Succeed on the ACT
Give Awesome Test-Prep Materials
Encourage Studying
Supply a Good Study Environment
Take Practice Tests Together
Model Good Grammar
Help Memorize Math Formulas
Encourage Reading
Explore Colleges Together
Arrive at the Test Site on Time
Help Keep a Proper Perspective
Index

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