RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Websites
American College Testing
www.actstudent.org/
College Board
www.collegeboard.com/student/index.html?student
FairTest
This user-friendly website lists and provides links to colleges that do NOT require test scores.
www.fairtest.org/optinit.htm
Free Practice Tests
A free practice test questions for a variety of tests, including the PSAT, ACT, SAT, etc.
www.testprepreview.com
The Princeton Review
Probably the best-known test preparation group in the US.
www.princetonreview.com/home.asp
Stanley Kaplan
The other best-known test preparation groups in the U.S.
www.kaplan.com
Wikipedia
Wikipedia has very useful descriptions of and information about the PSAT, SAT, Subject Tests and the ACT.
www.wikipedia.org
Books
American College Testing. The Real ACT Prep Guide (The only official prep guide from the makers of the ACT). Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Thomson-Peterson’s, 2007.
College Board. College Board’s Official Study Guides for SAT Subject Tests. These books are probably the best resource for preparing for the many different subject areas. Available on the College Board’s online store.
Green, Sharon Weiner, Ph.D, Ira K Wolf. How to Prepare for the NEW SAT with CD-ROM. Hauppage, New York, Barron’s Educational Series, 22 edition, 2009.
Student readers say that this is an invaluable book and that many of the vocabulary words were actually on the test they took.
Kaplan Publishing. Kaplan PSAT/NMSQT 2010 Premier Live Online Edition. Riverside, New Jersey, 2009. Students rave about this book.
McCutcheon, Randall, James Schaffer. Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2004. Short, but effective in helping students know how to approach the SAT essay.
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