The Official ACT Mathematics Guide

by ACT

Are you prepared to do your best on the ACT mathematics section test? The Official ACT Mathematics Guide is the only test prep resource created by the makers of the ACT to prepare you for the mathematics ACT test. This step-by-step guide reviews the entire ACT mathematics test, allowing you to familiarize yourself with the types of questions you can expect to see on test day. You'll learn the math you need to know, as well as how to approach each question type. Read the solutions to each problem, along with detailed explanations, to improve your performance and gain the confidence you need to succeed! Unlike other ACT prep guides, this book includes official information on the ACT, including section retesting, online testing, ACT superscores, and more. The official ACT subject guides offer the most current details on ACT testing, helping you gain that edge. With The Official ACT Mathematics Guide , work toward the score you're targeting and take one major step toward achieving your educational goals! With this concept-based guide straight from the offices of the ACT, you know you’re preparing to do your absolute best on the ACT mathematics section test!

256 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2020

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ACT (Iowa City, IA) is a not-for-profit organization providing assessment, research, information, and program management services to support education and workforce development. Known most widely as the makers of the ACT exam--the college readiness and placement assessment taken by some 1.8 million high school students each year--ACT produces a number of assessments and services reaching more than 10 million people along the kindergarten through career continuum. ACT's rigorous research informs policy decisions and helps develop programs that boost lifelong learning potential in schools and workplaces around the world. To learn more, visit www.act.org.

Reviews

[j · Rating 2 out of 5]

the book does a good job of naming and giving examples on the lessons the ACT is going to be majorly testing you on, but its explanations could use some work, especially the explanations for the question answers. a few them assume you already understand points that were not reviewed in the book and skim over confusing concepts for the more difficult questions, while over explaining (what i found to be) extremely simple questions. a lot of the ways these questions are also solved are unrealistic to the actual conditions of the test, considering they take more steps than they need to, when it could be explained WAY more simply and effectively, and the ACT is a test all about solving under pressure and time.

what bothered me the most though is that if you solve along with the short quizzes after each lesson to test your understanding of what was just explained, you practically lose the value of ~100 from the final practice section because they just repeat them there. reusing such a huge number of questions was extremely lazy on their part.