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There are two major components to test prep: Practie and building your understanding of the exam language. This book is intended to be a strategy guide that teaches you actionable techniques and tangible skills that sharpen your test taking ability. This book is intended to improve your test performance not only on the ACT but on all tests. This book will discuss the repetitive nature of the ACT and give you an intricate breakdown of the exams so you can recognize these patterns. Before you fight an opponent, you study it; you learn its habits and recognize its go-to moves. In doing that, you can predict what will be on the exam and easily counter it. Besides discussing the format and breakdown of each section, we will discuss the content of the exam and most common question types. Foundational skills will also be addressed for each of the four sections. That will include effectively reading and annotating, essential math skills, graph-reading basics, properly utilizing the calculator, and the rules for grammar and punctuation. Use those sections to assess what skills you may need to work on before or during your preparation for the ACT. For that reason, this book is meant to be used in conjunction with real exams and diagnostic reports. Practice, after all, is one of the two core components in test prep, so be sure that you are consistently working through authentic ACT exams as you read this book. This book can be used at any time- before, during, or after taking the ACT. That being said, your best chance of mastering the exam is by building your understanding of the test before you take it.