<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I am a very rookie of ACT. I bought Red Book already. What I am planning to do is buying 2~3 prep books to master the basics of ACT and focus on Red Book as actual practice (1 year to prepare). I was first planning to purchase both Princeton Review and McGraw Hill. but I heard from people that ACT for Dummies and Cliff Notes are very good, somehow better than known brands of test prep companies like TPR. Are these two books any better than famous brand prep books like Kaplan and etc? Are they effective? </p>
<p>Is it better to purchase Princeton Review & McGraw Hill’s ACT prep prep books rather than purchase ACT for Dummies & Cliff Notes?</p>
<p>Anyone?? I would like an answer…</p>
<p>Kaplan is the worst one.
Dummy is pretty good content wise.
Princeton Review is good.
McGraw Hill is too easy.
Barron is too difficult.
Never use Cliff Notes.</p>
<p>RowlandCloud… I mean dude you see a problem in all of them. What is your point?
I am using Kaplan,Dummy,McGraw,Barron, and online Spark Notes.
Just for the hell of it.</p>
<p>The ACT for Dummies is not that good. </p>
<p>Princeton Review’s line, “Cracking the ACT” and “Crash Course for the ACT” are good. Crash Course is very good even though it has the name crash course, gives you 10 thoroughly explained steps in each section to get a higher score. Good for a review of math and science. </p>
<p>McGraw-Hill’s 10 ACT practice tests are good, yeah they are slightly easier than the real ACT, but not by that much, and hey, it’s practice!</p>
<p>Kaplan is very good too, Great strategy info and section workouts! although some of the info in the book is false. for instance it says you can take the ACT as many times as you want, when in fact you can only take it 12 times. Has some errors in math too, but not majorly bad. Overall it’s very good.</p>