<p>So I just decided today that I want to retake the ACT on Saturday. My first time around, my scores were
E: 36
M: 34
R: 35
S: 30 ( ugh =[ )</p>
<p>English: always solid
Math: I always feel the math is so simple, and then I stumble upon some ridiculous question about prime factors or just really complex arithmetic that causes me to be dumbfounded. Any suggestions how to consistently perfect math/ only get 1 wrong?
Reading: usually solid
Science: my weakest point. I feel like I'm just going to start reading intros and then diving into questions using the most simple logic possible. Will this work?</p>
<p>I feel like a majority of the time I overthink. In a way, everything on Science is written there for you (barring a little outside knowledge Qs every so often) so not making assumptions not based off written facts with be VERY useful. Thoughts? Comments? Help?</p>
<p>I never read the intro on the science questions. Very, very rarely do you need to anything more than read the question and look at the graph/charts.</p>
<p>I will admit that skipping the intro paragraph text actually does work.
The real meat is in the data/charts- that’s what you want to skim real quick.</p>
<p>I’ve never tried this before, but I read someone else’s post in another thread and it seemed like a pretty legit game plan.
Basically, you go straight to the questions, and make several rounds.
For example, you skim through the questions and answer the easiest ones first; the ones you can pick off straight from the charts/graphs.
Then, you make a second round and answer the ones that are a little more difficult, those that require some actual thinking.
I guess you just repeat after that.
Or maybe you could just circle the ones you didn’t answer, and move on to the next passages.
And at the very end, you go back and answer the ones you circled?</p>
<p>I’m not sure :p</p>
<p>But anyways. I’m definitely going to try to do this in a practice section tonight. Yayyy. </p>
<p>Can you give me any tips on Reading?
I got a 33 last time, and I really want a 35/36. :s</p>
<p>thanks guys. any other thoughts?
for reading, i make notes next to the paragraphs and read over it quickly. I go to the questions, and then if they ask me to refer to a line number I reread the area around those lines carefully. This should up your score a bit.</p>
<p>If time is not a problem, I would suggest really trying to understand the data/graphs (this includes this intro) before diving into the questions. It’s just really easy to miniterpret data if you don’t know what’s going on.</p>
<p>But as I mentioned in the post I linked to, it’s your own style, so you can ignore me if you want :P</p>