The Official ACT Mathematics Guide

by ACT

The ACT official subject guides are a step by step guide for outlining the preparation for the ACT section tests. These prep guides provide students a concept-based outline for the subjects they plan to focus on. Each one of the official guides, is an efficient prep tool comprised of the most current and relevant test information packed into one guide. In addition to the book, the entire pool of questions are available online for a customizable learning experience. The ACT official subject guides are the best resource to get detailed input and practice to help you in preparation for the ACT. By using this guide, students can feel comfortable and confident that they are preparing to do their best! Features of the ACT® Official Math Guide Review of the entire mathematics test so you'll know what to expect; Familiarize yourself with the types of math questions for on the ACT; Understand the math topics within the problems you'll solve while taking the mathematics test; detailed explanations for every official ACT Math question in the book The only books with real ACT Math questions organized by question type; includes detailed explanations for each questions; understand math problems within the problems you'll solve while taking the mathematics test.

432 pages, Paperback

Published June 22, 2021

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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.