A Testament to the Diff Between SAT/ACT

Test Preparation
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<p>I am a male senior at a small private school in Dallas, TX. I have taken the PSAT since 9th grade every year, and took the SAT in June. My scores were:</p>

<p>Math 660 CR 620 (Composite 1280)</p>

<p>I was rather disappointed about this, and several of my schools require or strongly encourage ACT scores or SAT II scores, so I decided to try my hand at the ACT:</p>

<p>English 35 Math 30 Reading 33 Science 33 (Composite 33)</p>

<p>Not only was SAT math my best score and ACT math my worst score (Weird!), but my composite score jumped a (relative) full 200 points (and I only studied for the ACT for about 2 hours over one week's time). </p>

<p>Let this be a testament to the difference in the tests and hopefully encouragement for those of you who didn't do so well on one of the tests!</p>

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<p>isnt a 660 math pretty much the same as a 30 subsection math?</p>

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<p>Well yeah but my composite score was more than 200 points higher (converted) than my SAT score...without studying!</p>