<p>I have been studying for ACT for over 5 months now and this is the way I increased my score from 22 to 31.
Learn ALL content with hardcore practice. These are the books I HIGHLY recommend:
a.The Real ACT (3 REAL ACT tests from previous administrations)
b.Kaplan ACT Premier Edition
c.Princeton Review Cracking the ACT 2010</p>
<p>2.Learn content from your textbook
a. get a REAL high school textbook for Algebra 2, Geometry, English Literature (to improve reading ability)
b. to ace the science section read all types of science experiments online to get general knowledge on science</p>
<p>3.Improve your logical reasoning abilities
a.Use IQ Boosting exercises (You can get books from book stores for this purpose)
b.Playing chess
By improving your logic you will will see a great increase in your score.</p>
<p>This worked for me!
PS. Don’t get the BLACK BOOK!</p>
<p>That is a pretty ridiculous amount of work. Scores don’t mean that much. What I would do is just take some practice tests (timed), go over the answers you get wrong, study only what you get wrong. Getting an ACT book would most likely help. Science, you don’t need to know any of the actual “science” in the experiments, it just takes some reading comprehension and logical skills. Think about all the questions logically–no question on the ACT is supposed to be truly “hard.”</p>
<p>Chess is actually a decent way to test your mental skills. If you are making very poor moves (very subpar), you can definitely tell that your brain isn’t making logical decisions.</p>
<p>I would add getting more sleep to being one of the most important things for doing well.</p>
<p>Thats true, sleep is a huge factor that can improve scores immensely. And if you don’t want to do a weeks worth of work to increase your ACT score, I don’t think you should even go to college.</p>
<p>“hardcore practice,” reading three textbooks, and reviewing all types of science experiments, not to mention the other things you wrote, does not sound like a week’s worth of practice…</p>