The ACT has just released a free “Preparing for the ACT” booklet that models the new format that students taking the paper ACT in September will see. Here is a link to it:
Preparing for the ACT 2025-26 Booklet
Students will notice that the English questions all have prompts, the Math section no longer has sets of questions on a common table or chart, the Reading section has four fewer questions, and the Science consistently has seven passages. In addition to this free preparation book, the ACT has made four tests available in the new paper-based format in their new Official ACT Prep Guide.
More preparation material from other authors will be forthcoming now that the ACT has publicized these practice tests. I have been hard at work on the new Barron’s ACT book that will have six practice tests modeled on the enhanced ACT test format–this book will be released in January of 2026.
–Brian Stewart