The Princeton Review - Math and Science Workout for the ACT, 4th Edition: Extra Practice for an Excellent Score

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Part I

Orientation

Chapter 1

All About the ACT

WELCOME

The ACT is an important part of college admissions. While many schools do not require applicants to submit either ACT or SAT scores, most require one of them. For a long time, different schools would accept only one or the other. If you wanted to apply to schools in the Midwest, you took the ACT; if you wanted to apply to schools on the East or West Coast, you took the SAT.

The good news is that these rules are obsolete. All schools that require a standardized test will take either the ACT or SAT.

This is good news indeed for test takers. While there are many similarities between the two tests, many students find they do better on one than the other. The expert advice of The Princeton Review is to take whichever test whose practice version you do better on. While you can certainly take both, you should focus your efforts on one for substantive score improvement. True improvement takes hard work, and it can be tough to become an expert in both. And because schools will take either one, you wont win any brownie points for punishing yourself.