Up Your Score ACT, 2014-2015 Edition: The Underground Guide

Chris Arp, Ava Chen, Jon Fish, Zack Swafford, Veritas Tutors and Test Prep

eBook - 2013

Yes, kids, there is an alternative to the big, bad SAT—it's called the ACT. And yes, there's now an alternative to the big, bad, boring ACT study books: Up Your Score: ACT, the prep and survival guide with attitude. Like Up Your Score: SAT, Up Your Score: ACT is the underground guide for the 1.65 million kids who take the ACT every year (more than take the SAT). It's written by Chris Arp, age 26, a Princeton graduate, along with his colleagues at Manhattan's prestigious Veritas Test Prep company and three high school seniors who each scored an ACT-perfect 36. They take the guerrilla guide Up Your Score approach of combining a thorough knowledge of how the test works and the subjects it covers with for-student, by-stude...nt tips and strategies; lively pop culture references and jokes; and a fresh knowledge of what it's like to actually take the test. Ace the reading section by developing the Five Habits of Lean Forward Reading, including Treat... more