<p>I just recently found out that I also need to take the ACT to for a couple of colleges I'm looking at and know NOTHING about it! Can someone tell me a general overview of what's covered on the ACT? Thanks. Any study material that helped out would also be appreciated. any tips, pointers, or anything else would also be appreciated.</p>
<p>I would also appreciate it if any of the high scorers would post replies.</p>
<p>Theres 4 sections </p>
<p>Math- 60 minutes/60 questions
English-45 minutes/5 questions
Reading-35 minutes/40 questions
Science-35 minutes/40 questions</p>
<p>Theres also a writing test where you get a half hour to write a persuasive essay. The june 10th writing wanted you to argue rather or not fast food places should be required to serve healthy foods. The writing test is optional.</p>
<p>I you want to gt a good score I would just take alot of practise tests to work on yor timing, they will also tell you what you need wok on. I used a book called the ACT assesment by REA. I thought it was pretty good and it even came with a cd with two practise tests. I was looking throughthe princeten revew and noticed they explained things alot better so I would recommend that.</p>
<p>Overview:
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=141&type=ACT-LEARN%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=141&type=ACT-LEARN</a></p>
<p>Free ACT practice tests:
<a href="http://aapsample.act.org/aap/sampletest/index.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://aapsample.act.org/aap/sampletest/index.shtml</a>
<a href="http://actstudent.org/pdf/preparing.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://actstudent.org/pdf/preparing.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.petersons.com/testprep/practice_test.asp?id=354&sponsor=1&path=ug.pft.act&testname=actfreepractice&sitelicense_key=155&referer_type=SL%5B/url%5D">http://www.petersons.com/testprep/practice_test.asp?id=354&sponsor=1&path=ug.pft.act&testname=actfreepractice&sitelicense_key=155&referer_type=SL</a>
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=244&TYPE=ACT-PRACTICE-TEST%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=244&TYPE=ACT-PRACTICE-TEST</a></p>
<p>thanks a lot War Chant and Puppetzz. What kind of stuff is on the science part and what are the highest possible scores?</p>
<p>The science is mostly reading and interpreting graphs. Although there is also usually a conflicting scientists passage where you have to compare the theories of two or more scientists.</p>
<p>The highest possible score you can get is a 36.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most important thing to know about the science test is that it requires no science knowledge. Take a look at the first passage in the science test that begins on page 42 of this booklet:
<a href="http://actstudent.org/pdf/preparing.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://actstudent.org/pdf/preparing.pdf</a>
It's about replication of plasmids and transfer of genes from one bacterium to another. But all the information is given to you; if you're pretty smart, you could figure out all the answers without ever having heard of bacteria, plasmids, or genes before. What this section is really testing is your ability to read, understand, and apply moderately complex information, both in paragraph form and as tables and graphs. That's not to say that a strong science background won't help you: science courses give you a lot of practice in this kind of problem-solving. But don't panic if you haven't had physics or chemistry or bio yet.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people get slowed down on the science test by worrying too much about things that don't matter. It is often not necessary to understand what the passages and graphs mean. For example, look at Passage II. Every single question can be answered just by looking at the graphs, and the paragraphs in between not only don't make it any easier but are full of extraneous information. You don't even need to know what the studies are about, or what allotropes are, or what reflectance and wavelength mean.</p>