<p>Am planning to take the ACT's in September and the only science course i've taken is AP Physics. Would I have trouble/be at a disadvantage in the ACT's since I have not taken Biology or CHemistry? Would I have to know specifics in CHemistry and Biology to be able to ace the science section?</p>
<p>A friend of mine told me that the science questions on the ACT are paragraph based wherein you have to find answers to the questions from a given paragraph/report itself. Is this true?</p>
<p>science is definetely not my best subject and i got a 33 on the science section of the ACT, so no, you dont really have to know science. the best way to think of the science section is as another reading test, but with passages about science. You will most likely do well in science if you are good at the reading section and know how to read charts and graphs.</p>
<p>Do you have to know specifics? No. Actually, you don't have to know anything about the subjects. All of the answers (or around 98% of them) are in the passages/charts.</p>
<p>Here lies the problem though. You are given 35 minutes to answer 40 science questions. Chances are, if you are not at all familiar with the subjects, you can't afford to waste time trying to 'figure the concepts out'.</p>
<p>Ironically, Bio and chem are the two I struggle the most with too. I took neither in high school. For the next test, my plans are to study from an introductory Bio/Chem book - not to memorize facts or grasp complicate subjects, but just to become familiar with the subjects so that I actually have a clue what they're talking about on the test when the passage is about chemical bonds etc. I think this will help some.</p>