<p>I am a junior in high school.I am new to the forum and would like to introduce myself.</p>
<p>I received my ACT results Monday. Very disappointed in myself despite the fact that I studied and attended numerous workshops. I even practiced the test many times and took it once already with writing. I stayed the same.</p>
<p>I do not understand how I made the same. When I was super nervous the first time. I want to know the trick or proper readiness technique to bring a 24+ result home at least.. I am not even asking to get into Ivys or anything. Just want to get into Ole Miss with a good scholarship fund. I have NHS recognition and a 3.3 GPA as of right now in AP weighted classes and Accelerated classes. I have received Honors and Academic recognition since 1st grade, despite being moved from different difficult and vigorous curriculum due to domestic circumstances. Anyone would like to give me any advice.</p>
<p>Study more, take practice tests on your own. Two a week. Read strategies. You will get what you want by doing this.
P.S. Don’t cheat yourself.
I did and got poor scores my first two times.
Then I took a stronger approach and got a 29.</p>
<p>I would have to say the same. See where you went wrong on your test and study your weaknesses. Then, take a bunch of practice tests. If you have problems with a specific section, do extra tests on that section.</p>
<p>take it multiple times! first time I took it I got a 23, the second time a 26 and the third time I got a 29. the more you take it the better you get.</p>
<p>If you don’t attend a school district that has bombarded you with standardized tests since at least 6th grade, you may need time to practice and adjust. The ACT is a long test and requires you to work quickly. It would be best to take full-length practice tests (which you can buy in any bookstore chain) all in one sitting, to get used to the length and fatigue factor. Note any answers you get wrong and review those types of problems carefully before taking the next practice test.</p>
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<p>My son got a perfect score (36.0) the first time he took the test. He is actually required by his school to re-take the test in order to graduate – he took the test as a sophomore and the school requires that he take the test his 3rd year. How much do you suppose he will “improve” on this retake? ;)</p>
<p>“the more you take it the better you get.” I know people who have taken it 3 times (with prep in between) and gotten a 33 two more times. Further, many people can sit down and take it without prep and get between a 33 and a 36 each time, but that varies within that category. Once you’re consistently at a 33 or higher, your score moves both up and down because it depends on the questions you get.</p>
<p>@Lorem: If it wasn’t going to mess up the school’s score, I’d suggest making a picture with the bubbles. Actually, on second thought, I’d suggest answering every question incorrectly. Or he could go the route of someone I know and worry whether you’ll do poorly (what, did she want a second perfect score?).</p>
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<p>Back on topic:</p>
<p>I would suggest taking lots and lots of practice tests and sections and trying various strategies to see which ones work best for you. (Some strategies are general-purpose strategies, but others are good only for certain types of people.)</p>
<p>Also, don’t listen to strategies from people who scored a 30+ their first time. If you can walk on and score that high, you need <em>very</em> different strategies (or my personal favorite method that’s useful to those who use it and useless to anyone who needs to ask… “read question. solve question. bubble answer. repeat until finished.”)</p>
<p>Your best bet is to get help from people who started in the low 20s or in the teens and who improved their score to mid/high 20s (or better), as they’ll know the strategies that will be most likely to help you.</p>
<p>(The difference in strategies really comes down to strategies for getting as many right as possible, which involve how to guess well, and those for getting a perfect or close-to-perfect score, which hardly ever involve guessing).</p>
<p>not everyone does better the more they take it, but you can if you take note of what you didn’t do well on and try to improve that for next time. each time you take it make a note of what helped you and what doesn’t.</p>
<p>That’s good advice from RedSeven. The ACT doesn’t penalize you for guessing, so you want to make sure that you have the answer bubble filled in for every question. If time is a serious issue, practice narrowing down your choices by eliminating obvious or extremely wrong answers and then guessing from the remaining choices. </p>
<p>One particularly simple technique, especially in math, is that the right answer is often paired with a very similar wrong answer – a change of plus or minus sign or something similar. These variations exist because many students make a small calculation mistake when working out the problem and the alternative answers are meant to trap them. Sometimes there are multiple variations and the right answer is almost always the one that has the most terms in common.</p>
<p>In Science, time is usually the problem; read the questions first and scan the graphs for possible answers – reading all the presented material carefully first is a trap for suckers.</p>
<p>There is no point signing up for more official tests until you get a handle on exactly what answers you got wrong in your practice tests and WHY: you’re not going to sharply improve your score ONLY by taking lots of practice tests. If you don’t understand how to correctly answer a problem, ask a teacher or peer tutor or ask your counselor if you can borrow a textbook from a previous class. You need to KNOW the basics. </p>
<p>It’s quite possible that you had bad teachers who gave you top grades but never taught you the fundamentals and that you have gaps in your knowledge today. You might as well get moving in filling in those gaps now, because the problem will come up again in college anyway if you don’t.</p>
very helpful site.</p>