<p>I have never taken the ACT before, but am all too familiar with the SAT RC section. unfortunately, i tend to score much lower on the RC section (700). I know this isn't bad AT ALL, but there is definitely a large disparity between that and my other two scores. The best practice for reading is reading, blah blah blah, but is there anything in particular that I should know about the ACT reading section? Are the questions much harder/ do they seem much harder?<br>
I'm a fast reader, but apparently a BAD reader.<br>
Has anyone taken both the SAT and the ACT, and done better on either one?<br>
Suggestions?</p>
<p>The ACT reading section gives you much less time relative to the SAT CR sections. You need to answer 40 questions in 35 minutes. On the SAT you have more time per question and i believe the passages are shorter as well.<br>
On top of that the Reading section also tends to have the most unforgiving curve of all the sections (I think 1 wrong on the April testing date was a 34).<br>
I have taken both the SAT and ACT so consider this:
I usually finished around 4 minutes early for every critical reading section for the SAT. However, on the ACT I usually ended up racing at the last several seconds to fill in the last few questions; sometimes guessing. </p>
<p>The ACT reading definitely requires at least faster reading than SAT CR. </p>
<p>The best thing to do is to take ACT practice tests and learn to pace yourself properly.</p>
<p>btw according to the UC ACT_SAT conversion chart, my 34 ACT composite trumped my 2170 SAT by ~140 points.</p>