<p>Ok.. so you know how that book the real ACT prep guide has real ACT tests.. Well i took an English test and got a 29 on it. I could have gotten a 30 if i kept previous answers for a few questions. But on the april 14 ACT i only got a 24 on english.. I thought it was really easy and i was shocked i got a 24. I was thinking that maybe i filled in the wrong bubbles on the test sheet or something but i won't know for a while because i just ordered the TIR. So why did I only get a 24 on the April one? Do you think I misplaced the answers on my bubble sheet?</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as you. First time I took the ACT I got a 24 in English, which I expected because I suck at english. I studied English a lot leading up to my second ACT and took many practice tests and I consistently got 27-30 for all of them. When I took the April ACT I thought the English was extremely easy and I was expecting a 29 or 30 on it. I got a fricken 23 on English, one worse than my first ACT, even after all the studying. I just took another practice English on Friday and got a 28. I ordered the TIR to figure out what I did wrong.</p>
<p>Same here, i got a 26 on April but normally i get around a 28-29 in English, even though I thought it was really easy. I ordered TIR too, does anyone know when we get it? And</p>
<p>Were you nervous when you took the act? Were you not sure of your answers? or did you not time the practice test you took?
before week of the act, i took the english test every day and my average was 2o or 19 but before i took the act someone told me: when in doubt, take it out.So what i did is, i choose the answer that i felt very confident without doubt. And my last 5 questions i put the same answer because i didn’t have time.And i received 24 on the english section.</p>
Guys, i managed to improve from a 24 to 35 in English. Basically you need to review all the mistakes you missed and analyze them carefully. You will notice a pattern that the questions you miss are all the same concepts. From there its about relearning grammar rules and knowledge. Tips and tricks can only get you 1 or 2 points, but if you really want to see huge gains in your score, you simply have to fill knowledge gaps. For example try this question: The commissioner, along with his 20 staff members, run a tight campaign against the incumbent. What’s the error? Its subject verb agreement. Cover up the phrase along with his 20 staff members, the comissioner run a tight campaign? no. Its the comissioner runs a tight campaign. The act is full of tricks like this and if you learn all the rules and get good eventually you’ll become a pro at dectecting these types of grammer errors.
For Rhetorical questions, make sure the anwser is always on topic, I kept missing these types of questions about relevence everytime until I learned to simply find the evidence in the passage. Again find you weakness and write down the types of questions you keep missing on practice tests.
Also, a lot of time if your not sure wheather your anwser is correct on the grammer questions, plug the anwser back into the sentence and reread the sentence and see if it makes sense. You’ll catch a lot of errors this way. Reading it aloud also helps a ton.
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