Michelle Rose Gilman & Veronica Saydak 
The ACT For Dummies [PDF ebook] 

Introduction.
Part I: Coming to Terms with Reality: An Overview of the ACT.
Chapter 1: Getting Your ACT Together: The Format.
Chapter 2: Succeeding on the ACT.
Chapter 3: Reading the Admissions Committee’s Mind: What Colleges Want.
Part II: Serving Your ‘Sentence’: English Reviewand Test.
Chapter 4: Glamour Grammar: The Five-Star Review.
Chapter 5: Misspellers of the World, Untie! Mastering the English Test.
Chapter 6: It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: English Practice Questions.
Part III: Writing the Writing Test Rightly: You Have a Choice.
Chapter 7: ACT Write: The First Words on Essay Writing.
Chapter 8: Write Right: The Writing Test Review.
Chapter 9: Practicing Promptly with Practice Prompts: Essay Practice Examples.
Part IV: Don’t Count Yourself Out: The Math Review and Mini-Test.
Chapter 10: Ogling More Figures than a Beauty Pageant Judge:Geometry Review.
Chapter 11: Catching Some (X’s, Y’s, and) Z’s: Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids.
Chapter 12: Reviewing Miscellaneous Math You Probably Already Know.
Chapter 13: Numb and Number: Acing the Mathematics Test.
Chapter 14: More Fun Than a Root Canal: Mathematics Practice Questions.
Part V: Time to Read the Riot ACT: The Reading Test.
Chapter 15: This, Too, Shall Pass(age): Sailing through the Reading Test …………………………………145
Chapter 16: Where Are Cliffs Notes When You Need Them? Reading Practice Questions…………..151
Part VI: Proven to Cause Brain Defects in Laboratory Rats:The Science Reasoning Test.
Chapter 17: Frankenstein to Einstein: Excelling on the Science Reasoning Test.
Chapter 18: Faking Atomic Ache Won’t Get You Out of This:Science Practice Questions.
Part VII: I’d Rather Wait for the Movie: Full-Length Practice ACTs.
Chapter 19: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part I: Practice Exam 1.
Chapter 20: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations.
Chapter 21: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part II: Practice Exam 2.
Chapter 22: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations.
Part VIII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 23: Ten Wrong Rumors About the ACT.
Chapter 24: Ten Differences between the ACT and the SAT.
Index.

Michelle Rose Gilman is proud to be known as Noah’smom (Hi Noah!). A graduate from the University of South Florida, Michelle found her niche early and at 19 was already working withemotionally disturbed and learning-disabled students in hospitalsettings. At 21 she made the trek to California and there she foundher passion for helping teenage students become more successful inschool and life. What started as a small tutoring business in thegarage of her California home, quickly expanded and grew to thepoint where traffic control was necessary on her residentialstreet. Today, Michelle is the Founder and CEO of Fusion Learning Center, a private school and tutoring/test prep facility in Solana Beach, CA, serving over 2, 000 students per year. She has taughttens of thousands of students since 1988. She created the Mentoring Approach to Learning and is the author of various books onself-esteem, writing, and motivational topics. Michelle founded the Addiction and Recovery Division at Fusion and has overseen dozensof programs focused on helping kids become healthy adults. Shecurrently specializes in motivating the unmotivatable adolescent, comforting their shell-shocked parents, and assisting her staff of27 teachers.
Veronica Saydak graduated from the University of San Diego with a Bachelors Degree in English. She found her realeducation in travel and seeing the world. She has traveled to over12 countries, studying various cultures through their literatureand lifestyles. She has been a highly coveted English teacher, specializing in writing, for over 4 years. Currently, Veronica isthe Director of Student Development at Fusion Learning Center, where she is responsible for program development, staffsupervision, and teaching her students on a one-to-one basis. As anadministrator, Veronica specializes in the emotional well-being ofover 400 students. Her wit and humor might not solve theworld’s problems but it definitely makes the world feellighter.
Although more likely to admit to being a used-car salesperson, Suzee Vlk was a test prep specialist from 1975 to her deathin 2003, working her way through graduate business school and lawschool teaching courses in ACT, SAT I, GRE, GMAT, and LSATpreparation. By her own description, she found the paranoia andtake-no-prisoners mindset required for doing well on the ACT a bighelp in developing cutthroat tactics to use in the boardroom orcourtroom. Eventually, she became president of Suzee Vlk Test Prepand taught thousands of students in dozens of courses atuniversities and private corporations. She wrote material used in SAT and GRE preparation software and videos. Her prep books for the ACT and other standardized exams have been published worldwide.