Cracking the ACT, 2001 Edition

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bGeoff Martz/battended Dartmouth College and Columbia University, joining The Princeton Review in 1985 as a teacher and writer. His first book for The Princeton Review wasbCracking the GMAT/b, published in 1989.brbrbTed Silver/bis a graduate of Yale University, the Yale School of Medicine, and the law school at the University of Connecticut. He became affiliated with The Princeton Review in 1988 as the chief architect of The Princeton Review’s MCAT course. Dr. Silver’s full-time profession is as Associate Professor of Law at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.brbrbKim Magloire/bis a graduate of Princeton University. She joined The Princeton Review in 1984 as an SAT teacher, and has since taught The Princeton Review’s SAT II. LSAT. GMAT, GRE, and MCAT programs. Magloire is currently attending graduate school at Columbia University. Princeton Review realizes that acing the ACT is very different from getting straight As in school. They don’t try to teach students everything there is to know about math, reading, and English–only the techniques they’ll need to score higher on the ACT.iThere’s a big difference/i. InbCracking the ACT/b, TPR will teach test takers how to think like the test makers and:brbr*Use process of elimination to eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool test takersbr*Ace the English test by learning how to spot sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation errors quicklybr*Crack algebra problems by Plugging In numbers in place of lettersbr*Score higher on reading comprehension by learning to zero in on main ideas, topic sentences, and key wordsbr*Solve science reasoning problems by scanning the passage for critical wordsbrbrThis book includes The Princeton Review Assessment, a full-length diagnostic exam that will predict test takers approximate scores on both the ACT and the SAT. The questions on this test are just like the ones test takers will find on the real ACT?Ð

 

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