ACT English?

<p>This Saturday will be my second time to take the ACT, on the first one I got E:20 R:16 M:24 S:25, which was really shocking to me because reading and writing have always been my favorite/best subjects. </p>

<p>Anyway, for this ACT I've really been working hard. I realized that obviously my reading had to go up so I've been reading books all year and managed to improve that to a 25 on the last practice tesf. However, the English is still KILLING me. I've been going in every morning to my English teacher for prep, and even got an hour lesson from the head of my school's English department after school today. I came home thinking I'd surely improved, only to see that it was my worst score yet, I missed 28 questions.. 😞 It's really embarassing for me, since my brother got a 32 but I'm just not sure what to do. I've taken 6 practice tests and nothing seems to work for the English and it's beginning to discourage me as time runs out. I probably should have focused more on it leading up to this but it's too late for that now. I'm not sure if it'd help, but I'm not reading the story as I go, I'm just reading the sentence that has the question to save time. Honestly, I'm open to any suggestions at this point and thank you for your help.</p>

<p>What kinds of questions are you missing? Trying to figure that out might help. At first I was missing a lot of subject/verb agreement questions, but I have worked on that. Is it punctuation? Or do you have trouble with the overall “style” type of questions? If you have trouble with those, you just really need to study what kinds of answers they are looking for and kind of “reverse engineer” it. Hope that helps. My April English score was not great, but on my last practice test I went up 4 points, so I am a little bit encouraged. Good luck on Saturday!</p>

<p>Yea that’s a good idea. I just took the entire test as a practice and scored: 21 English, 23 Math, 18 Reading (Yikes!), and 26 Science. I kinda feel like I’m just spazzing out, so I think I’m going to take one more of the English test and just relax. We’ll see if it helps.</p>