<p>Good Evening College Confidential Community!</p>
<p>I am compiling a rigorous study schedule for myself and have realized that I am missing a critical piece. I have no dedicated materials for the Science section of the ACT. I took the ACT in April and received a horrid score of 26. I wanted to know if you all had any books you would recommend or another post from CC that I could use to help boost my score. </p>
<p>I received a</p>
<p>Reading 30
Math 25
Science 25
English 25</p>
<p>Thanks in advance! </p>
<p>I didn’t know if you all wanted to know but here is a rough outline of how I plan to spend my summer preparing for the ACT and SAT in the fall. </p>
<p>I have compiled a list of 35 Books which I feel will give me an ample amount of examples to use for the essay portion of both test.
ULYSSES by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
1984 by George Orwell
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O’Hara
U.S.A.(trilogy) by John Dos Passos
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner</p>
<p>I will be using Direct Hits, Volumes 1&2 for Memorization of Words for Critical Reading
I will be using Erica Meltzer’s Grammar Guide for Writing
Dr. Jung’s and Barron’s SAT Math Study Guide </p>
<p>If you all have anything else that you think I could use please post. </p>
<p>KDurham, to be honest with you don’t read those books for JUST the SAT, you can get by on a sparknotes to use it as a reference. But you must read the Scarlet Letter because it can be applied to so many different essays. It’s my essay staple and I get 9/12 on the SAT essay consistently. I would go here : <a href=“http://www.actquantum.com/releasedacttests/”>http://www.actquantum.com/releasedacttests/</a> and take the science (or all of them) portion for every test because you really need a “feel” for the questions so you can think like the writers of the ACT. A fun app that I used to study for both sections is play2prep and it’s free, fun, and has very representative questions. </p>