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Unpaid internships are essentially slave labor, or at least indentured servitude. That's a terrible idea.

I'm not sure what you would describe as your dreams, so I'll give you a possible alternative track for a possible set of goals that may or may not coincide with yours.

Let's say your goal is to get a well paying job and have a reasonably deep understanding of physics. Perhaps you'd also like that job to be intellectually stimulating. Here's a rough outline of what you could do to accomplish that:

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Before college

You're in 7th grade. First step, use this collection of links on efficient study habits to destroy and master your school work (check out Anki, too). At minimum, treat school like a day job. (Hopefully you'll have great teachers that teach you a love of learning and a value for a well-rounded educational base that includes the sciences, arts, and humanities.) Do all the exercises from Khan Academy from the beginning to fill any gaps in your knowledge and use sites like PatrickJMT, Paul's Online Math Notes, BetterExplained, and MIT OCW Scholar to supplement school and KA. Also, read these two books.

Once you've got school under control and are getting the most of what's available to you through that avenue, use the Art of Problem Solving Books to get a vastly deeper understanding of precollege mathematics. I'd say it should be a higher priority than learning calculus early in terms of ROI, but you can learn it if you want to.

See if you can find a group near you to train for a Math Olympiad or similar competition (like the ones listed on AoPS). Aim for the gold, but realize that it's unlikely and the real prize is how the training will bring up your mathematical maturity so you can tackle evermore challenging problems, concepts, and subjects.

Also, use sites like Coursera, edx, and Udacity to teach yourself programming. Once you've got a reasonable handle on programming, check out a site like Topcoder and maybe try to compete in the Coding Olympiad. Also, mess around with a Raspberry Pi.

You could also check out any big research universities or even decent state schools in your area. They often have youth outreach like summer camps for kids who love math to come and learn things not usually taught in schools. You could also see if there are any researchers willing to take on a hard working and science-loving high school student for a research project (this is how most of the winners of Intel science competitions get their start).

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College (Undergrad)

If you've done the first paragraph of the previous section alone, you should be able to get into any top 20 program in the country without any trouble. Chances are you'll be competitive for most Ivies and top 10 programs. Do any of the stuff beyond the first paragraph, and you'll be a shoe-in with a huge advantage over the overwhelming majority of college applicants in the country. The link about scholarships in my earlier comment will guarantee that you get a free ride. Also, read this book.

So now you want job security and financial security. Any sort of engineering would do, but I think you'd be more interested in computer science so let's say you do that and double major in physics.

Every summer you do paid internships for CS at various software firms for work experience. This will be the best way to make sure you are extremely hireable after graduation for lucrative positions with interesting work as a software engineer. That's Plan B.

For physics, you find a lab that does interesting work and start doing undergraduate research. You might change labs a few times to find a better fit. You might stick with the first one until graduation. Doesn't really matter as long as you gain real research experience.

You also study your ass of for the Physics GRE from your first semester. A few hours per week you do problems from old tests from subjects as you learn them. As in, do mechanics problems your first semester, do mechanics and E&M problems your second semester, do mechanics and E&M and thermo and optics problems your third semester, etc. (This may be different depending on how your school organizes its physics curriculum.)

You talk to your advisors and grad students and fellow students and professors about applying to grants and graduate school. They'll be able to give you actual advice tailored to your situation.

Either in the spring of your junior year or the fall of your senior year, you take the GREs and apply to graduate programs in areas that interest you and apply to grants to fund you and wait for the offers to return. Assuming you've followed my advice, at least some of them will contain acceptance letters with details of stipends. More than likely all the acceptance letters will include stipends you can live off of.

If you just get rejected, you'll at least have a BS-worth of physics knowledge and have experienced real research and can go off and enjoy your well-paid life solving interesting problems as a software engineer.

Or you can try and get a job at a national lab somewhere putting your physics background and programming chops to work and just apply again another year while saving up more money.

And all of this was debt free because you had the forsight in high school to apply to hundreds of scholarships.

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Also, read this thread on what it takes to kick ass at MIT. The post and the ensuing discussion should drive home what you could train yourself to become. (I think the reply by the twin is particularly enlightening.)

You can either shoot for the stars and hit the moon, or you can read magazine articles about gravity on the moon.

1. Khan Academy
   
   Nothing can substitute for pure experience. With the exception of reading, after a while you start to see patterns and trends and those help a large amount. Since you have all summer try that study planner gimmick that they have now (it wasn't available before I took the test) and connect your recent SAT with the Khan Academy webpage for personalized review. The best thing is that it is free.
   
   
2. http://www.amazon.com/Official-SAT-Study-Guide-2016/dp/1457304309
   
   This was the first thing I used, and I found the practice tests very useful. The review sections can be useful if you've forgot how to do certain things (grammar rules and math formulas) but I mostly used it for the practice tests. The practice tests on here will be the best representation of the questions that you'll find on the actual test, and vastly outclasses those of other testing companies. However apparently the practice tests can now be found on the Khan academy website so I guess that makes this obsolete.
   
   
3. http://www.majortests.com/grammar-focus.php
   
   Like a lot of people I got absolutely massacred on the english section due to the obscure pedantic of the language. Now, I'm pretty sure no one else has recommended this (Erica Meltzer seems to be popular but I've never heard of her until now) but it's short, sweet, and to the point. It brought me from clueless to missing 0 on the last writing and english section. I would start with this book because it is very eye opening, then progress on by applying the knowledge during practice tests.
   
   
4. http://www.amazon.com/Kaplan-Premier-2015-2016-Practice-Tests/dp/1625231598
   
   A beast with 8 practice tests, enough to keep you busy for a while. The downside is that there is no "review section," or a section where they go over strategies and other things. Personally, I find that refreshing because those sections are generally useless and it's often better to developed your own strategies by repeatedly taking practice tests. The practice tests were generally well designed but there were some parts that were bad prep, but take this with a grain of salt since I had a very early version.
   
   
5. https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-NEW-28th-Book-Only-ebook/dp/B01DKY438C?ie=UTF8&me=&ref_=mt_kindle
   
   Ahh, the good ol' Barrons book. The only reason I bought this is because I ran out of practice tests. I bought the very first version actually, so personally I thought the practice tests weren't very well designed. Even more coincidentally, I used to attend an ACT class taught by one of the authors (which I felt was a waste of time, the class). Personally would only use it for the practice test but there's some other goodies in it if you have time.
   
    
   
   Overall, 1.3k with no prep is very good overall, placing you well above the national average. But that also means that you have a lot of room to grow, and grow you should. Honestly, for most people there's no substitution for hard work (aka repeatedly taking practice tests) and I really would not recommend to push studying back any further. So:
   
   Make a study schedule using Khan academy
   Force yourself to follow the Schedule
   
   Start with the short passages, like where they give you 10 to 15 minute sections of questions to do, to get yourself adjusted. Then, after you're getting a good feel, you can move on to the practice tests. I would:
   
   Start with an official practice test (from Collegeboard)
   Do some ones from other misc. test providers. (1 -3)
   Do another official practice test
   Do some misc tests.
   Repeat
   
   Before your test you should take one last official test. The reason for alternating these tests is because while the tests created by the other providers can be useful, they are generally not the most accurate representations.
   
    
   
   I guess one thing I have not addressed is how to utilize the feedback from practice tests effectively. If you already know then skip this part. It goes something like this.
   
   Take a whole test (or a section, but I generally take a whole test)
   
   Go back and grade it
   
   Check answers
   
   Go back and try to figure out how you got the answer wrong WITHOUT looking at the explanations given by the book (because those frankly mostly suck) and if you still can't figure out what's wrong then go and check.
   
   Make a mental note to never make a similar mistake
   
   Make a similar mistake
   
   All jokes aside though the most helpful thing is to try and figure out by yourself why someone may not have been right, rather than rely on the explanations of the book, for the book may not think the way that you think. However, there are some grammar rules which you just have to know.
   
   
   Another thing I use is a question mark system, where I put question marks on my answer sheet near problems which I'm not sure of. It goes like this
   
   ? = educated guess
   
   ?? = a lot less education in the guess
   
   ??? = wtf
   
   Generally I would get about ~70% of ?'s right and ~40% of ??'s right and about ~25% of ???'s right. More importantly, I always go back and look at them regardless of whether I got them right or wrong, either to reinforce my thinking (if it was correct) or try to change it (if it was wrong).
   
   With enough practice tests, you can actually start graphing your progress and see which areas you need to improve.
   
    
   
   If this task seems daunting, that's because it is, and the fact that 50% of the nation get's below an 1000 proves it. But, it's the fact that everyone else sucks that makes getting a good score so much more rewarding, imagine what a 1600 would be worth if everyone got one (I didn't, just to tell you right now). As long as you work hard and put your heart into it I think that you have a lot of potential to succeed :)
   
   Also, sorry for the awful formatting and the wall of text.
   
   
    
   
   tl;dr study hard

You're starting early, which is best. I would recommend this book to you: How To Be A High School Superstar. It details what you should do to get into top colleges.

Overall, I'd say strive for straight A's, score well over 700 on each section of the SAT, and try to find ONE thing your son is passionate about and follow that to the highest level possible.

Don't be one of those boring "well rounded" students who has great grades, test scores, and is on a club. They're looking for people who make impact. As I was told from a former Duke admissions officer, "Every student body has to have a President, Every year book has to have an editor, but who are the movers and shakers? Who is making impact?"

Winning awards like Nextel Science competition is major, doing research in a field is impressive, etc.

Overall, make sure your son is "different." He's going to apply 4 years from now, and at the rate things are going, I would assume that there will be probably 45,000+ applicants by then. What is going to make him different from those other applications?

Make sure he loves learning for the sake of learning and is taking control of his own education. Make sure he follows his passions during the summer, because elite schools want to know what these kids are doing during the summers. Make sure he leaves an impact in his school and forms a strong bond with his teacher.

Make sure he's "high impact" in some type of field. The keyword being "impact."

Here's a link to a youtube video of a former Stanford admissions officer :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XL8vBBB7o




http://www.amazon.com/How-High-School-Superstar-Revolutionary/dp/0767932587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459262515&sr=8-1&keywords=high+school+superstar

theres the official act prep guide which is probably your best bet because it comes from the act people, it costs about $20 but im sure that your local library would have it because mine does, i know that uworld has act problems and people on this reddit get the free trials, and you can find free act practice tests and can print them out. heres some question sets on the official act website.

as for the science section, its actually very simple. in my experience you dont actually need any extensive background knowledge in science. its more on the logical side, as most of these tests are. if you can read and interpret graphs and charts and come to logical conclusions, practice a little bit to figure out the whole idea of how to find the answer, you should be fine. science is actually the section where i get the least wrong.

you can definitely study for free. theres quite alot of free test pdfs and if you can find the act prep guide at a library that would be even more help. the guy from uworld gives free access so thats free too. the problems on the act website are also free. i hope thats enough to help you study and good luck!!!

Alright, since you're not going for any electronic resources, I'll list a couple of books. Your main problem seems to be English in general. While the books might help you, I recommend reading a lot. Try historical and scientific articles online or even in a book. Read a couple of classics by Charles Dickens or Victor Hugo.


1- Kaplan https://www.amazon.com/SAT-Prep-Plus-2018-Strategies/dp/1506221300
This book has exceptional EBRW practice and thorough explanation with multiple methods of approaches. The math section is alright, but I feel that it is a little easier than the actual test.


2- Dr. John Chung's SAT math book. https://www.amazon.com/Dr-John-Chungs-SAT-Math/dp/1481959794
A phenomenal book. It has challenging question in the math section that will over prepare you. If you can get a 700 on his tests, you're set up on getting an 800 for the math section.


3- Barron's New SAT 28th edition https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-NEW-SAT-28th-Sat/dp/1438006497
Great book for learning the entirety of standard English convention and reading strategies. The EBRW questions might be a little easier than the actual thing, but the information it provides is meritorious. The math section also has some challenging problems that will over prepare you.

The official SAT study guide (alias blue book.) https://www.amazon.com/Official-SAT-Study-Guide-2018/dp/1457309289
This is the best book to test all you've practiced for. After you complete all other books, take all 8 practice tests. This will prepare you well.


Now for some tips:
1- Focus on your writing section more at the begining. Getting 44/44 in this section while missing 10 on the reading puts your score at 740-760. It weighs more.

2-Write some essays and have someone check them. It'll help you spot mistakes easier.

3-Calm down, you can always take it again.


Good luck!

I never read or even looked into either of those books, so I can't give a fair comparison but she bought it off amazon. It's honestly actually a great read because it's concise and the examples are hilarious. But I have to be fair and say that both of us attend a pretty selective/rigours program for math, science, and english (which is literally what the ACT is), and the program itself helped us a lot in terms of content/time management since we did covered a lot of this material early on in highschool. I'd love to help out in any way I can if you ever need it :)

https://www.amazon.com/Your-Score-2018-2019-Underground-Outsmarting/dp/0761193669/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511133974&sr=8-1&keywords=up+your+score+act+2018+2019

I would check out most of Cal Newport's recent writings. He received his PhD in Computer Science from MIT, and is now teaching at Georgetown.

His main thesis is deliberate practice consists of lots of different facets, most of which aren't necessarily thought about. While his work focuses a lot on improving work in "knowledge fields" it is drawn mostly from creative pursuits. He argues that thinking about your habits for practicing and learning (meta-habits) are just as important as sitting down to practice or learn. For example, knowing how to build a clear path of improvement and success in learning the piano is as important as sitting down and working through the hard parts. Sometimes the hardest part is simply figuring out where it is wisest to invest your time.


His article "The Deliberate Creative" I found to be particularly enlightening, among others. He's also been published in the New York Times, The Economist, and has five bestselling books.

On a side note, I originally found him looking for ways to improve my study habits, which is what he originally wrote about as an undergraduate. Any current high school or college students would benefit GREATLY (IMO) from his blog and first three books. Seriously, the guy has some great stuff.

lol its ok u will improve. here are some of my resources:

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if u haven't already, i suggest this book for practice tests: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-2018-19-Online-Content/dp/1119508061?ref=ast_p_ep

once i was done with that, i looked up tests online (there are plenty of them!)

if u struggle with science, i suggest this book: https://www.amazon.com/Love-ACT-Science-innovative-standardized/dp/0996832203/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537486319&sr=1-2&keywords=act+science

it's a bit pricey, so i suggest getting a used one

if u wanna learn some great tips on how to improve ur score in every section, this book has some amazing info: https://www.amazon.com/ACT-Prep-Black-Book-Strategies-ebook/dp/B07BGDM282/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537486409&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=act+black+book&psc=1

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i found these books to be sufficient, but also look for tutors in your area for help

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good luck, i hope to see ur thicc 36 post soon! send me a message when it happens :D

For math, I'd recommend College Panda's 10 practice tests. They are pretty accurate and a great way to prepare for math.

For a last-ditch effort, I'd look into Princeton Review's 6 Practice Tests. It got good reviews, (#1 best seller, too) and it overall features accurate content.

Make sure you first go over College Board's 7 (found on Khan Academy) practice tests, then Ivy Global's, and then check out TPR and College Panda for math.

Read How to be a High School Superstar.

Other than managing your grades and standardized test scores, the majority of the book is about building achievement in your extracurricular activities. It's certainly not too late as a rising junior, but you do have limited time, so get started on this endeavor immediately.

This is all assuming your grades are good (3.8+). Take a practice ACT and new SAT this summer. Figure out which test you prefer, which should usually be the one you find easier and score higher on. Find suitable resources (college confidential, as hated as it is, has a lot of test prep advice) to raise your score as much as possible. Sign up for the October administration of your chosen test and make sure to take practice tests in the weeks leading up to it. If your score meets the threshold of the universities you wanna attend (assuming 34+ and 1500+ for top tier schools), you're done with testing. If not, keep studying and try to get that done by the end of the semester. Take your subject tests in June.

Wish me good luck as a rising senior!

Actually, the CollegeBoard websites are pretty helpful itself.

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org

https://www.collegeboard.org

Then, to prepare yourself, you can sign up for the free online test prep for SAT on KhanAcademy:

https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat

There are a couple good books you could buy to familiarise and test yourself, just some of them are:

Princeton Review

http://www.princetonreview.com


CollegeBoard SAT Guide

https://store.collegeboard.org/sto/catalog.do?category=325&categoryName=SAT%AE

Kaplan SAT Prep Guide

http://www.amazon.com/Kaplan-Strategies-Practice-Review-Tests/dp/1625231547

Barron's SAT Prep Guide

http://barronstestprep.com/sat/


You could also take online SAT Preps. If you have anymore questions, feel free to PM me.

You are definitely not "fucked". You can easily turn things around. Even if you go to a "mediocre" college, you can still do incredible things.

I'd recommend getting this book: https://www.amazon.com/How-High-School-Superstar-Revolutionary/dp/0767932587/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JJZN9DVPA6KDVKY71SFS

Great guide about how to get into the college you want. In your situation, I'd recommend you get it ASAP. Follow it and results will happen.

I would assume you would have a solid shot at Cornell. Cornell is actually the most transfer-friendly of the Ivies. I just applied to Cornell as a transfer student with a 34 and am waiting on my decision. However, most of the other Ivy League schools take a more limited number of transfers. Not to say that it would be impossible to transfer somewhere like Yale, for example, but your shot would be significantly lower than that of a first year applicant's. I think you should check out Cal Newport's "How to Become a High School Superstar." The title may sound corny, but the author details the stories of many successful gap year students. Here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/How-High-School-Superstar-Revolutionary/dp/0767932587. Also, as a prospective transfer student I've read a lot of material on the tips and tricks of transfer admission so feel free to PM me if you'd like to ask me anything! Hope this helps!!

We plan to use some of the strategies in this book to help our kids get into the colleges if their choice. It might be helpful to you. This book says it’s not so much about the GPA and test scores, but how you market yourself and the activities you do. Good luck! How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767932587/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-OXwDbBD4B293

It's always best to go with the official study books. Here's the SAT and the ACT

Princeton Review is known for test-prep, but I've never used them, so I can't attest for quality... I just know that the official guides from the people who make the test are always your best bet for prep.

All of this, PLUS: Before you take the ACT again, check this book out. It has some of the most important simple things that will raise your score by several points. I say this because your goal shouldn't be half tuition, it should be no tuition. The ACT is an exam about how well you can take the ACT. Figure out the easiest months to take it (used to be December and June; November was the most difficult), figure out some schools you wouldn't mind going to who offer ACT-based scholarships, and try to get them to pay your way.


>It isn't very difficult to get into college. It isn't hard to do well in college. You do have to put in hard work.

This is so true. Don't get caught up in the circlejerk over how hard things are and "it's okay if I have a low GPA because my employer shouldn't care, I have ~work experience~." If you do your best, no excuses, you'll be fine.

Purchase and read through this book, thoroughly. Then do the practice tests in it:
https://www.amazon.com/Official-ACT-Prep-Guide-2016/dp/1119225418/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475214343&sr=8-1&keywords=red+book+act


Approach questions with confidence after you read the book.

E: Learn the English grammar rules: http://blog.prepscholar.com/act-grammar-rules

M: Brush up on math with Khan Academy SAT Math Practice.

R: Practice tests!

S: Practice tests!

• When taking practice tests, always take them in a realistic environment (preferably in the AM).
  
  
• USE A TIMER. Practice setting the timer 5 minutes early. This will help you get used to 5-minute warnings. Try to finish AT the 5-minute warning so you have time to go back and check.
  
  You'll do great!
  

Better you learn in it in your last year of high school than your first year of college. I highly recommend reading these books b4 stepping foot in college:

Book 1
Book 2

I think there's a high school version which might help you out with grade 12.

For what it's worth, I was a bio major in undergrad, am currently in med school, and science was always my weakest section on the ACT. So she shouldn't feel bad about it :) From what I remember, most if it was interpreting graphs and data. I'd encourage her to just do as many practice science sections as possible, and work her way up to doing them timed. You can get a book like this that has a bunch of questions, and explanations for each answer.

http://www.amazon.com/Practice-Questions-College-Test-Preparation/dp/110188231X the best study book ever, I literally just did like 10 practice tests

The Fiske Guide is pretty good. Also the US News printed college guide. There are plenty of books about admissions, but I don't have any particular one to recommend.

Where are you from?

I'm a NMF with a 1520 (max) PSAT and max selection index junior year. I also got a 1490 sophomore year. The best way to study is just do a bunch of questions and read the justifications behind the answers (especially in English section). Basically get into the College Board mindset. I mainly attribute my score to grinding like hell using a book similar to this. I also read a lot of NYT/The Atlantic/WaPo articles, since similar types of articles show up on the Reading section. Some authors that appear in fiction sections include Kafka, Alcott, and Austen. Basically the classics.

For math, just use PSAT prep books. Also get a hold of SAT prep books or Khan Academy and do the questions. If you do well on SAT math sections, the PSAT math should be a breeze.

Hope this helps. If you need more advice, don't hesitate to PM.

I recommend this book to you that might do you well if you're interested. It's a little book that covers all the essential topics on the SAT briefly: https://www.amazon.com/Crash-Course-SAT-5th-Last-Minute/dp/1101920491

With this, you'll have a general idea on what you need to know for the SAT.

I actually didn't start seeing results till like late February (Post- 1 month) because I switched up how I study. I focuses more on why I chose the answers to those certain questions this way I developed more of a thinking process.

Books I used:

• Princeton Review: https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Tests-2017-College-Preparation/dp/1101919795 Not the best, its just what I had at the time, focus more on khan academy
  
  
• Ivy Global: https://www.amazon.com/Ivy-Globals-SAT-Practice-Tests/dp/194232104X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496962552&sr=1-1&keywords=ivy+global+6+practice+test Ivy global actually did a giveaway on this sub and I was one of the first to complete the form so I got it for free.

Get a book. If you have never taken one, I would recommend the official ACT Test Book (or it's named something like that). Take a practice test without looking at anything just to get an idea of what your score looks like.

Official ACT Book: https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-2018-19-Online-Content/dp/1119508061/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1549992754&sr=8-3&keywords=official+act+prep+guide+2018-2019

If the benchmarks you mentioned are the ones that ACT has, then they are:
Math: 22
Science: 23
English: 18
Reading: 22

After that, break down the most troubling sections into smaller chunks and work on those. Some examples for me were the last 20 math questions (usually the hardest of the entire math test), Prose Fiction reading passages, multiple science sections, etc.

Take another practice test, rinse and repeat.

If you feel this isn't helping, I understand completely. This is what I did, and it helped me. Find another method, or get a tutor, which is what I did. Hope this helps!

Also, if out of sources, order the the new red book.

This will have 3 additional recently administered exams. So make the best use of them!

I'd recommend this book

It's short and has easy to understand tips for getting a higher score.

1. Hey! Absolutely always go with the books that are created by the writers of the test. For the SAT that would be this: https://www.amazon.com/Official-SAT-Study-Guide-2018/dp/1457309289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510794005&sr=8-1&keywords=college+board+sat+2018
   
   For the ACT that would be this: https://www.amazon.com/Official-ACT-Prep-Guide-2018/dp/1119386896/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510794029&sr=1-1&keywords=real+act+prep+book+2018
   
   2)You can find all of the concepts tested on the respective web sites for the tests. ACT.org and collegeboard.com
   
   3)That is a way more complex question. First and foremost, I would tell you to not rely on tricks. Tricks are what sell test prep companies, not improve scores.
   

Oh, this reply made my day! Thank you so much! Even this comment gets my adrenaline pumping throughout my body -- I am very motivated to score high on the PSAT after my score freshman. I go to a private school and, believe it or not, many people scored 1400 freshman year. Makes me feel ridiculous - but I'm not going to let this keep me down.

I still think I will snag a PSAT book (the one I linked) just so I can get more familiar with the format of the PSAT.

Agreed. By the way, the new ACT book comes out at the end of the month. It can be pre-ordered here.

Here...this is what my kid used:

https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Premium-Practice-Tests-2019/dp/1524757853/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2KRM0JVE0N2R6&keywords=sat+review+book+2019&qid=1558059735&s=gateway&sprefix=sat+re%2Caps%2C211&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

Princeton Review Reading + Writing Workout

May I suggest ACT study guide for busy students? https://www.amazon.com/ACT-Busy-Students-Simple-Tackle/dp/1506209068

are you talking about this book?

new edition of official guide -
https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-Bonus-Online-Content/dp/1119386896

The Official ACT Prep Guide 2018-2019

It's this book.


https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Tests-2017-College-Preparation/dp/1101919795

There's this book by Princeton review called 1,296 ACT Practice Questions.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307945707?cache=c445cb79744e1c3089145c2c51961abb&pi=SY200_QL40&qid=1408489500&sr=8-1#ref=mp_s_a_1_1

It just has ton of practice sections for each part of the ACT.