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Have fun!! I wish my school had trips :O.

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I feel this immensely

Hi :))

I did prepare for the ACT. The most important step is becoming as familiar with the test as you can get. Learn the number of questions and length of each section. Learn the type of questions that are asked every time.

The ACT is very formulaic. Every time, the same 4 categories of reading passages are given: social studies, natural science, narrative, and humanities. You can pick the order to tackle them based on your interest/skill in analyzing that type of reading. Very similar ratios of math problems are given every time. You can expect a few categories of science question every time (dueling scientist, trial comparison, etc.). 

That was the backbone of my practice. I took practice tests and then figured out what my weaknesses were. For example, Reading was by far my worst. Looking at the mistakes I made, I found out that I was inferring way too much instead of looking at the text literally. This helped me in continuing my practice and I even noticed it during the actual exam.

I'm not sure if these are the best study books, but they were what I had available. I used The Princeton Review's Cracking The ACT to get a early diagnosis of my strengths and weaknesses. The book explained the patterns of the test very well. For additional practice, I used McGraw Hill's 10 ACT Practice Tests. Admittedly, it is hard to find baseline scores in that book because of the lack of a curve + fluctuating difficulty, but it was still good practice. 

I did not use it, but I have heard very good reports about the Real ACT Prep Book. I would believe it, seeing how it's the only practice book that ACT actually publishes.

This reminds me of the picture in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=YRnhuE1iSEk