(Part 2) Best college & high school test guides according to redditors
We found 465 Reddit comments discussing the best college & high school test guides. We ranked the 100 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
This book is so great! I even feel like a celebrity because my review is featured on the back cover. :) I can't believe she's giving this amazing resource away to all of you for free. If you want a physical copy or Kindle version, here's a link since Mom is too shy to promote it herself.
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(That's not affiliate and I don't have anything to gain from this other than helping a friend). Also guys, if you read the free pdf and like it, go to that link and give her a positive review.
This book is arguably better than Meltzer's. Take it from me, I've used both books and this book increased my score much more than Meltzer's: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018L8U57K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_EEIyzbK7RA7RJ
The person who wrote it started out with an average score and worked independently up to a perfect score. The strategies actually work! Three weeks ago, I had 39/52 in reading. Now I have 49/52
No encuentro un documento en donde tenia bastantes universidades que ofrecian becas, entonces me estoy intentando recordar out of the top of my head.
Aca unas que encontre para Europa con un quick google search:
Ya el deadline paso, pero si estan buscando para el futuro:
Si ya estas estudiando en una uni y te quieres ahorrar unos creditos:
Si quieres venirte a los estados unidos, tienes algunos medios, pero pagar 50k+ dolares al ano nos es factible siempre puedes considerar hacer 2 anos de community college y despues buscar transferirte. Es mucho mas economico asi.
tl:dr Estas son solo algunas de las miles de oportunidades que existen. Cada persona tiene distintos meritos o esta en diferentes circunstancias, entonces si algo aca no es exactamente lo que buscas lo mejor es ponerse a buscar (google is your best friend) y te aseguro que si te dedicas a buscar encontraras una oportunidad que sea ideal para ti.
I empathize and understand! It's why I've tried to keep my resources free or highly affordable.
Even if you don't feel comfortable with the idea of gifting "Acing It'!" to other students once your gifted copy has helped you, you could buy the ebook for $6.99 on Amazon.
If you don't go with College Panda, you might check out the McGraw Hill 50 Math Skills book, which I like for the same reasons I like College Panda (organized by topic; clear presentation of the key formulas; practice problems for each topic). The problem with the McGraw Hill book is that there are a few notable errors. But it's still a good resource overall—just keep thinking critically when you use it so that you don't learn the wrong thing. You can also make your own study guide or formula sheet based on the problems you've answered incorrectly.
There's also going to Barnes and Noble (don't write in the books, obviously) or the library (If you can find a book that hasn't been marked up and, again, don't mark it up yourself) and using those resources with your own notebook— College Panda appears to be independently published, so I don't think you'll find it in either, but there are plenty of other study guides that can help you out.
Here's the McGraw Hill 50 Math Skills Book: https://www.amazon.com/McGraw-Hill-Education-Top-Skills-Score/dp/1259585670/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=McGraw+hill+50+math+skills&qid=1555419254&s=gateway&sr=8-3
Here's the eBook of Acing It! A Mindful Guide to Maximum Results on Your College Admissions Test: https://www.amazon.com/Acing-Mindful-Maximum-Results-Admissions-ebook/dp/B07FNVMGBZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=acing+it&qid=1555419585&s=gateway&sr=8-1
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Yeah they don't have Lit tests on that site.
To prepare for the SAT Subject Test in Literature, I recommend using the Ivy Global guide for strategy and 6 extra practice tests, and using the 4 official tests that are available as diagnostics to gauge your progress along the way.
I realise that you already have one book and don't want to buy another, but I am the author of what I honestly believe is the only decent competitor to "for the love of ..." and one of the huge advantages of my book over that one is that I spend almost 40 pages reviewing all the outside knowledge you need and math questions. I really really think this book could help you. It's here: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Scientific-Reasoning-Jerusha-Richardson/dp/1771365692/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503925719&sr=8-1&keywords=understanding+ACT+science
For practice tests, use ones made by the actual ACT people - the ones written by Princeton Review or Kaplan or anyone else just aren't the same, and you can tell - especially if you're already scoring pretty well and you're trying to get those last few points. The official ACT red book has practice tests (the current edition has only 3, but if you get the earlier edition (https://www.amazon.com/dp/076893432X/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=) there are 5 complete tests and they're basically the same except for the essay (English and Math are exactly the same, Science and Reading have some cosmetic differences but mostly the same)). There are a bunch online too. Try to find those "Preparing for the ACT" pdfs they put out every year; those let you score yourself.
Most schools have a Spanish CLEP test that will allow you to skip the basic courses. Study books for the CLEP exam are available in stores and on-line: http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Language-Preparation-English-Edition/dp/0738610895
https://www.collegeboard.org/
Sample questions: http://clep.collegeboard.org/exam/spanish-language
There is also the SAT II tests for Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Latin that some schools use (books are also available for these and study materials are available on-line: http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-subject-test-preparation-spanish-with-listening ).
If you are talking about this book, this book, or this book, they contain all the same tests.
If you want more exams, get the subject specific Official Guides in Math 1, 2, Bio, Chem, Physics, WH, etc.
If the exams you're preparing for don't have specific Official Guides and you want 1 more real exam, you'd need to get this book.
There's a great book about that: https://www.amazon.com/Acing-BYU-Students-Maximizing-Undergraduate-ebook/dp/B07GYBWSC8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=acing+byu&qid=1573020021&sr=8-1
It seems sketchy. I also haven't read it, but the reviews look totally fake. Pass.
I'd recommend Janine Robinson's books if you're looking at college essay books; they seem pretty legit. Here's a link to her "Heavenly Essays" book.
https://www.amazon.com/Heavenly-Essays-Narrative-College-Application-ebook/dp/B00K3UJCGK/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1500180430&sr=8-7&keywords=essay+hell
I have free guide to the SAT Literature (Fiction) passages that can be downloaded as an e-book at the following sites:
KOBO Guide to SAT Reading: Literature
iTunes Guide to SAT Reading Literature
Amazon.com Guide to SAT Reading: Literature
There are reading lists in the back of the book.
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Although I don't strongly recommend it, I didn't buy any sort of practice exam nor study guide. First, I went to the Free Clep Prep Human Growth and Development section, and used all of the "Free Study Sources". The Tufts link isn't valid anymore, though.
Next, I went to this link for one of the test prep guides on Amazon. But instead of buying it, I just clicked "Look Inside" and studied every single vocab word.
I also used this practice exam. Here's the answer key.
From that point on, I would go into google and type in "Clep Human Growth and Development Quizlet" and studied up on every set of flashcards I could find.
Again, you're probably better off actually buying that practice book. It's currently the cheapest study guide you can get right now and it has a lot of good reviews. Free Clep Prep even recommends it. I'm pretty frugal, but that's just me.
Also, don't underestimate understanding the theories from Sigmund Freud and Piaget! I skimmed over them at first, but then I saw a forum post where this person was like "They were most of the exam". I'm glad I heeded that advice lol.
It's a jokey book. I used that same book but for the ACTs. Here is the link to its Amazon page. It has good strategies but there are lighthearted selections. If you're reading the book, it's obvious that they are joking.
http://www.amazon.com/Up-Your-Score-2013-2014-Underground/dp/0761168842
I read this one, seems like something that would be in it, but I doubt it's the one OP is using since it looks like there haven't been new editions. Book was hilarious, had a vocal list with puns to help you remember words. Still probably useful , but you should actually do practice tests if you want to succeed.
PM me and I will send a copy of my GMAT-specific grammar guide (https://www.amazon.com/Last-Minute-GMAT-Grammar-Techniques-ebook/dp/B00OZURCRA/)--it's a good enough place to start.
Agreed that idioms are frustrating, but just go through the OGs and write down all the ones that are used. Most are fairly strict as to "what the GMAT wants."
Yes, you might see ones that aren't in the OGs--however, assuming a level that isn't totally stratospheric, the idiom shouldn't be the only thing defining whether the sentence is correct/incorrect. That is, "real grammar" ought to make the answer reasonably clear.
Here's an example http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Practice-Edition-College-Preparation/dp/0804124655
The key was understand how they asked a question and use the answers as clues. Words like always and never almost guaranteed the answer was not something. It really did become simple once you stopped thinking about the answer and more about the test itself.
Really, really easy. Pick up a practice book with practice tests if you need a confidence boost.
I got both of the kids this prep book and my daughter credits it with being a big help for her.
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Thank you so much!
You mean the books like this: http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Language-Online-Preparation-English/dp/0738610895/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397922626&sr=1-6?
http://leadership.olemiss.edu/for-current-um-students/
This program is generally well regarded. Just do well in the prerequisites.
It is sort of akin to political science, but has more of the economics stuff that'll be useful to get you cool jobs (ie, you might be doing more business stuff for a sports team or something in the marketing world. Most people overestimate the size and capacity of marketing as a career field.)
Still, I would really try to CLEP out of everything you can.
http://www.amazon.com/CLEP-Human-Growth-Development-Preparation/dp/0738603961
They sell guides like this (I mentioned it earlier), but if it is an easy subject that you're looking to take for clep, reading the book should be enough to get you through it.
What did you get on the ACT if you don't mind?
If you're pretty smart, being in the Public Policy Program will sort of shepherd you from being lost in the crowd of a big school with apathetic advisers.
Also, even if you major in some random liberal arts thing or your degree doesn't exactly match what you're doing or there is no direct equivalent (say you were working somewhere in the sports world), the better your GPA, the greater the chances of you being accepted to do whatever you want to do.
Even if you decide on law school or business school in a few years, your GPA will be really important. And even if you had some sort of dramatic career change to move towards something like medicine or something very math heavy, it is a relatively small group of classes that separate you from those fields of study. Not that you should only pick an easy major or easy classes, but plenty of people decide they want to study biochemistry or biology, trash their major, switch majors, and then end up studying IMC (not that imc is bad, but making a 3.0 with biology will make you untouchable to law school, and even hamstring you a bit at the business school admissions process).
Picking up useful skills like the business/economics stuff, or a language can really help you with certain fields of study, or put you into niche positions.
I'm an avid reader who breezed through AP Literature and AP Language Arts. I thought I'd breeze through the reading portion of the SAT test when I took my first practice test, instead I missed at least 1/3 of the questions. The SAT is not like tests you take in school which are pretty black and white. The SAT wants to "trick" you and they do so by making the questions obscure and the answers written such that it seems more than one could be correct. The turn around point for me was when I heard the tip that the SAT takes great care in writing the questions and answers in such a way that there can only be one answer that is 100% correct. That means the other 3 answers have to include something which makes them wrong. When I came across a question that confused me I started trying to figure out what made an answer(s) wrong versus what made an answer correct. As I took more and more practice tests I started learning the SAT tricks and how to spot them. I ended up getting almost 100% correct on the reading sections, at the most I would miss maybe 1 out of the 52 questions. So how did I get from getting 30% wrong to 0% wrong? Did I suddenly get smarter in my reading? (no). I did it by studying the test itself, taking a TON of practice tests, and understanding what I got wrong and why.
For example, there was a fictional passage that described a character and her father. The main character was patronizing of her father and she was also scornful of him but not outwardly. There was a question along the lines of "the narrator's view of her father can best be summarized as:". One answer was something like "disdainful but outwardly pleasant" another answer choice "wholly patronizing". Well, she was both disdainful and patronizing, so which answer was right?. It was the word "wholly" that disqualified that answer. Wholly means "completely", "absolutely", etc. The narrator wasn't always patronizing of her father, only occassionally. This is a common trick of the SAT, using absolutes like "totally", "never", "always". Things like this you'll start to recognize the more practice tests you take.
Khan academy is good practice since it's free and it closely resembles the real SAT. The problem with Khan academy is that the explanations aren't that great. Some have mentioned 1600.io which is a website with explanations from a perfect tester. You could try that. I used "www.reasonprep.com", but it's not free. (1600.io is).
The most important advice I can give is to study the test itself. Take a ton of practice tests, over and over and over, and understand how to eliminate wrong answers. Figure out the SAT and how it tries to trick you. If you run out of reading passages the closest I've found to SAT type reading passages are the books by Khalid Khashoggi.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Reading-Workbook-Khalid-Khashoggi/dp/0996406409/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1522883434&sr=8-7&keywords=Khalid+Khashoggi
Sorry for the long answer. Basically practice a lot, understand why your answers are wrong, get used to the tricks the SAT uses to help you eliminate answers.
https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-ACT-36-3rd-Perfect/dp/143800625X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524353113&sr=8-1&keywords=act+barrons+36
The book is from 2015. Even though the ACT has not changed much since then, you may be better off purchasing a newer review book.
I teach at RIT, and I wrote a book to help. It's called Carpe College, and the kindle e-book version is FREE until TOMORROW (Tuesday, 12/2 @ midnight CST). If you know any HS seniors, college freshmen, or their parents, maybe they'll find this of value. Here's the link, or go to CarpeCollege.com. Hope this helps in some way! http://www.amazon.com/Carpe-College-Seize-Whole-Experience-ebook/dp/B00PPMNNMK/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1385959133
Black Book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692027912/) which should be paired with the 2015 ACT official prep book.(https://www.amazon.com/Real-ACT-3rd-Prep-Guide/dp/076893432X/).
I haven't used that book in particular, but I've used IES books for reading (this one in particular) and I would say they're comparable to the real test if not a bit easier.
I think they're good for familiarizing yourself with the passages/question types, but for getting total accuracy on the real test I would stick with the officially released tests.
I apologize, I should have mentioned. I used Barron's ACT 36
This funny SAT book called UP YOUR SCORE would say:
"My herbal was better than my bath"
An old shrew would say:
"My burble was better than my wrath"
Just playing a little here :)
anyway, Thank You Very Much for this Reddit!!