<p>Born in Rhode Island, now live in California.</p>
<p>I’m gonna hopefully do the new SAT, old SAT, and ACT.</p>
<p>I’ve lived in Ohio all of my life. I’m planning to take the new SAT and the ACT.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 I’ll probably just take the ACT and SAT subject tests. I see no reason to take the regular SAT, especially since the ACT is more popular in this area. </p>
<p>What prep books are you using for the ACT? Right now I’m just planning to use the big red book and more recent practice tests online. </p>
<p>@Faultystart </p>
<p>Where in Ohio? I live like 45 minutes northwest of Columbus. </p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy I live in Cincinnati. </p>
<p>I am so glad I stopped swimming, because if I continued, I would be waking up at 4:30 to go to morning practice. </p>
<p>oh haha I was born in ME, lived in ME, MA and Egypt, and currently reside in MA…</p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy The Career Resource Center at my school has the Big Red Book, so I am going to do that, hopefully over break. I’m probably going to do practice tests online as well.</p>
<p>Here are 7 online practice tests on PDFs. The Red Book has 5 and I’ll do that practice packet they give out. So hopefully 13 practice tests total. </p>
<p><a href=“http://bestactprep.org/free-act-practice-test-online/”>http://bestactprep.org/free-act-practice-test-online/</a></p>
<p>There is also a McGraw Hill pdf with 10 practice tests as well, but I might not do them because they aren’t of the same “material.”</p>
<p>I need a 34-36 on this test for numerous reasons, one being that I never want to take it again (ugh, standardized testing!)</p>
<p>I’m done with the SAT’s. </p>
<p>@livelaugh7 </p>
<p>I would recommend taking more recent practice tests. Apparently, the tests have gotten harder over time, so newer versions would be more reflective of the score you’d get if you took it today. </p>
<p>The “preparing for the ACT” pdfs are good. Anything from the ACT itself is good. I wouldn’t do the McGraw or Princeton ones. </p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy Yeah, I’m probably not even going to get through the other ones, just the Preparing for the ACT and the Big Red Book practice tests. So 12-13, which is plenty</p>
<p>The McGraw ones are fairly easy, actually. But their curve makes up for that, even with the easier ones.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m currently trying to motivate myself enough to read my APES AP exam review book. A semester has come and gone, and AP Exams are creeping up but finding the actual energy to do it is difficult, considering it’s winter break. I managed to read a chapter today…</p>
<p>I learned that in order to dual enroll before junior year, I have to have ACT or SAT scores ready. I haven’t taken either of those so I’ll be taking the PERT exam instead! </p>
<p>I got a PERT review book (it’s pretty easy) and I’ve been doing that during break mostly. I have to take the test late January to meet the dual enrollment registration deadline.</p>
<p>The struggle is real guys.</p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy You said it’s better to use more recent practice tests, does that mean I shouldn’t use an old prep book from 2011 to prepare for the ACT?</p>
<p>Are you all already studying for the SAT and ACT? I have some old prep books but I haven’t started studying with them yet. Maybe I should. I want to get a really high score the first time so I don’t have to retake them.</p>
<p>I guess I should probably start buying some review books for the AP exams as well.</p>
<p>@dsi411 I think s/he meant not the 2005 - 2009 tests. I have the old prep book from 2011 and it seems much better… 
I’m using that to study, but the more recent real ones are a better indication of a real score.</p>
<p>I started studying a few days ago and only want to take it once with a very high score as well. When are you going to take it? Good luck!</p>
<p>What AP exams are y’all taking? I’m taking the APUSH and AP Stats one as well</p>
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<p>@livelaugh7 I’m hoping to take them in the fall of junior year. Good luck to you too!</p>
<p>I’m taking the AP exams for AP Chem, AP Lang, and AP World History.</p>
<p>Definitely get studying for the SAT early. You don’t want to have to stress about it junior year, when classes start to get unbearable, or senior fall when you have application depression. </p>
<p>I’m not taking any AP tests this year; I mean, I could self-study Stats (I so wish I had taken it this year instead of Engineering), but I don’t really want to.</p>
<p>How many AP classes have you guys taken so far and how many are you currently taking? I’ve taken 1 so far (AP US history-4 on exam) and I’m taking 2 currently (AP world history, AP language)</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t offer AP classes, which is interesting, but I take about 4 should-be classes. </p>
<p>My school offers a lot of AP classes, but sophomores can only take AP European History. I’m not taking that class because there is too much work for me. (10-15 pgs of reading per night and a test every two weeks)</p>
<p>I take none; my school only offers Honors courses to freshmen and sophomores (excluding AP Stats, which anyone who’s on the accelerated math track (in which you take Precalc sophomore year) can take; and AP Chinese, which native speakers (and my school’s got a lot of them) can take as sophomores). I, being the idiot that I am, decided to fulfill my UC Arts requirement (not realizing that my seventh period PE substitute counts for it) with a course called “Intro to Engineering Design” instead of taking AP Stats. However, H. Precalc is one of the very, very few honors courses (only two at my school) that is UC weighted, so I guess it’s like an AP in that sense. </p>
<p>We have quite a few courses for juniors and seniors, however (which is a little annoying, since I can’t take all the AP courses I want to take junior and senior year (specifically APUSH and maybe AP Lit, although I may be able to get away with the latter) because of ECs and the amount of time commitment APs at my school require (all the APs I’m taking happen to be very difficult). </p>
<p>I am taking APUSH (my school offers AP Gov to sophomores but I didn’t want to take it) and I will self-study AP Stats. Its so much work! </p>
<p>@livelaugh7 It really is, but it was one of my favorite classes!</p>