ACT & SAT - Conflicts/Sequence/Timing?

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<p>For those of you familiar with both tests, I would appreciate your comments...</p>

<p>1) Is it beneficial, detrimental or really doesn't matter if one is studying for both the SAT and ACT (primarily through practice tests) at the same time? In other words, is it better to focus on the SAT through that test date and then shift to the ACT through that test date or visa versa? My son typically does not have big problems with time constraints, so getting ready for the different format isn't really an issue, I am more curious about the substance of the test, i.e. will studying math for the SAT help performance on the ACT and visa versa?</p>

<p>2) What are your thoughts as to which to take first, or again does it really doesn't matter? He has taken the SAT a couple of times previously in middle school, he is now a junior.</p>

<p>3) Is there a best time, ie. middle of junior year to allow for multiple re-tests, later in junior year to have had more AP class time behind him, etc?</p>

<p>Thanks for any advice you might offer. I have posted on the SAT board as well.</p>

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<p>I did the SAT CR questions to practice for the ACT reading. I skipped all the vocabulary questions, however, as the ACT doesn’t have vocabulary (which is why I took the ACT).</p>

<p>The CR writing section doesn’t seem to correlate too much with the ACT english as the SAT writing is based on tricks and memorizing uncommon grammar rules. The essay doesn’t help either.</p>

<p>SAT math can help out, but the ACT math requires a larger array of mathematical knowledge.</p>

<p>The science on the ACT is pretty much straight up reasoning, which studying for the SAT wouldn’t really help(doing the SAT CR section would come the closest).</p>

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<p>cjgone; Thank you.</p>