18263 Preparing ACT 2012-13_5003 AAP Prep for ACT 6/8/12 9:34 AM Page 1 2012–2013 PREPARING FOR THE ACT What’s Inside ■ Full-Length Practice Tests‚ including a Writing Test ■ Information about the Optional Writing Test ■ Strategies to Prepare for the Tests ■ What to Expect on Test Day Esta publicación también se puede ver o descargar en español en www.actstudent.org/testprep/index.html. This booklet is provided free of charge. 18263 Preparing ACT 2012-13_5003 AAP Prep
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SAT Practice Essay 1 Many people think that refusing to compromise will ensure you reach your goals. By never backing down and always standing up for what they believe in. Well‚ many people are wrong. If you are more flexible in reaching your goals‚ instead of fighting everything and everyone in the process‚ reaching your goals will prove to be a lot easier. Being flexible helps you in many different ways. Being flexible instead of always refusing to compromise will truly benefit you in the
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Daniel’s essays Official Guide: Practice Test #1 To change is to risk something‚ making us feel insecure. Not to change is a bigger risk‚ though we seldom feel that way. There is no choice but to change. People‚ however‚ cannot be motivated to change from the outside. All of our motivation comes from within. Adapted from Ward Wybouts‚ Planning in School Administration: A Handbook Assignment: What motivates people to change? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on
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In my opinion‚ the choices we make are not solely based on our intentions to do what we want but rather the confinements of the rule of society influences our final decisions. In society‚ not only does our choices affect those around us but also the community and those choices are established by society’s morals and value. By examining the events in the movie‚ Batman Begins‚ and the brutality of the Holocaust during World War II. In the world wide known film of the three part trilogy‚ Batman Begins
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Quote: Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action –Aaron Burr. Prompt: Do you agree with Aaron Burr that it’s wisest to put things off if you can? One should never always put things off simply because he is able to do so. Though at times it may be wiser to postpone a thing or two under reasonable circumstances‚ it is by far not wisest to do so for everything. The following examples from my personal experience and literature serve to
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Jenny took Algebra I in eighth grade. It was a pretty tough class‚ and they just started the factoring unit. Jenny knew that she was going to have to live through it. “Mr. Gurkovich‚ is this the answer?” “Now class I want you to realize that Math is an art‚ not a subject. There’s a way to do certain things. You have to have a process. You cannot just concentrate on the answers‚ look at your process‚ that’s where the answer lies.” After that day‚ Jenny realized that the answer lies within the process
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Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general? As the saying goes‚ "One person can make a difference.” whether it is a speech‚ a behavior‚ or a moment‚ people can make a change in the condition surrounding them. So‚ I personally agree that people should take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general. Martin L. King‚ known as an American clergyman‚ activist‚ and leader in
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slowly diminishing as more standardized tests make their way into the schools. Students are pressured to cram the night before big tests and once they receive their grade‚ they forget what they memorized soon after. Standardized tests should be abolished because there are many other ways in the classroom to evaluate intelligence‚ students are starting to lack creativity in school‚ and the mood a student is in that day could affect their performance on the test. Class projects‚ group
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Terrelle McCain Bill Morris English 111-07 11 June 2013 The Effects of the SAT on Students The Scholastic Assessment Test properly known as the SAT has become a major test in high school students‚ or college bound student lives. The SAT has become a test that determines the future of many high school students. Some worry about this "important test"‚ as it determines if many will get into the Ivy League college of their parents dream. From the start of middle school‚ teenagers practice for this test
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In 1926 the SAT also known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test was adapted from and Army IQ test and administered as a college admissions test. The test didn’t catch on until 1933 when the president of Harvard started using the test to assess scholarship applicants because he believed it was an effective measurement of intellectual potential. The other standardized college admissions tests in the US is the ACT. This originally stood for American College Testing. However‚ in 1996 the official organization
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