<p>Can we please get a list going of all the best science strategies here? </p>
<p>Science tends to be one of the sections most people struggle with, especially me, and I thought it would be easier if we could get all of it together on one page. Also put which books had the best strategies, like if Barrons or Princeton review had a better approach to the science section</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I thought that ACT 36 had some better strategies for the science section than “Cracking”. </p>
<p>I took my first ACT just recently in June so I don’t know what I got, but I’ve done some timed test runs from the red book and got a 35 on the science section after I started using some of the below techniques…before that I kept running out of time. Overall the key things I found to improve my timed test runs in the red book were the following:</p>
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<li><p>Use POE heavily.</p></li>
<li><p>Spending too long on a tough question might cause you to miss multiple points on easy questions that you end up not getting to…move on when needed.</p></li>
<li><p>If a question is taking too long, mark it with a star and work the other questions in the section…when you come back to it, you may now be able to answer it. This helped me a lot with the Reading section too. </p></li>
<li><p>Per ACT 36, take a moment at the start to number each section and do them in the order numbered:
If there are 5 questions, mark that as #1
If there are 6 questions, mark that as #2
If there are 7 questions, mark that as #3 (that is the Conflicting Viewpoints section)
Then you do all the #1’s first and so on. If any section is really difficult though, skip it for now and come back. </p></li>
<li><p>For the Conflicting Viewpoints section (7 questions), start with the scientist who has the most questions, i.e. if there are 4 questions that talk about scientist 2, read that first and answer them.</p></li>
<li><p>Especially in Conflicting Viewpoints, even if it’s a difficult section and you really aren’t getting it, don’t panic and look through all the questions because some of them might be totally easy, even without comprehending the passage.</p></li>
<li><p>Above all, don’t panic and use relaxation techniques if you are freaking out…</p></li>
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<p>In regards to the numbering 1, 2, 3 method, can you explain your reasoning behind that? I’d like to know a little more about it. Does it correlate with difficulty, therefore, you are finishing the easiest or hardest questions first?</p>
<p>Yes, I think the 1,2,3 method is generally in order of time/difficulty. The Conflicting Viewpoints section might not be harder but you have to read more and there are more questions, so Cracking and ACT 36 both say to save that until the end. I think the Data Representation (#1) are generally easier since you don’t need to understand the overall experiments as much as the Research Summary (#2). In the sample test PDF that you can download from the ACT site I thought one of the Data Representation ones was very confusing though because I had never seen a chart like that before, so I personally would have done that one at the very end so that I could get all the easier points I could first.</p>
<p>i know there r more tips out there you guys!</p>