basic things you need to know for sci section

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<p>hey guys,
so im taking the act again, after taking it in April. I was really bad at science, especially biology, in school, and my prep books for the ACT basically told me that minimal knowledge was needed in order to take the ACT Science section. On the Princeton Review practice tests, I would get scores of 30/31, but on the actual thing I got a 26, and I'm pretty sure most of my wrong answers came from the things that asked questions about actual science, not graphing. </p>

<p>Since I haven't found a thread that talks about this, can anyone who has already taken the ACT or people who know a lot about it discuss the actual facts about science that you need to know? Is there any way to know?</p>

<p>Any information would be helpful</p>

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<p>Facts? </p>

<p>The ACT Science Assessment test doesn't measure your knowledge of specific science principles, and does not intentionally base its questions on a particular high school science class. The ACT Science Assessment test measures your ability to draw conclusions and establish relationships between sets of data and various science principles, ALL OF WHICH ARE PRESENTED TO YOU. The test gives you data, and rules/laws by which that data has been constructed, and will ask you to hypothesize, etc.</p>

<p>There is no memory involved in the science section. Just look at the tables, figures, and experiment passages as you read the questions. NEVER READ THE PASSAGES COMPLETELY. This saves you time, as the questions typically draw upon data provided to you. Answers are in the graphs.</p>

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<p>i agree with oni,you dont need to be sceience nerd to score good on the ACT science, you just need to be able to figure out relationships and understand basic graphs, tables, and experiments.</p>

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<p>Actually I think in April there were questions in the science section about Mitochondria and Glucose and there was nothing in the charts or reading about that. Luckly I knew both of the answers.</p>

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<p>No, collegeworried and OniLawliet, unfortunately you are wrong and as yanksman said, on the April test, there were questions about basic science. yanksman, do you remember those questions/answers?</p>

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<p>The answers were chyroplast and glucose.</p>

<p>Chyroplast- makes leaves and stuff green
formula for glucose = C6 H12 O6</p>

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<p>Yeah... it gave the reaction for photosynthesis and asked which reactant/product was a sugar (I think?).</p>

<p>If they ask you any questions requiring ACTUAL knowledge, it will be incredibly simple. Don't worry about it.</p>

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<p>Ya, worry more (well, don't WORRY) about interpreting those danged experiments in 35 minutes than the outside knowledge which will be only like 1 or 2 questions. For some reason science is always my lowest score.</p>

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<p>....and its chloroplast.</p>

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<p>In the June Test, I saw a question asking whether Frogs and Toads were Amphibians, along with which molecules have the highest energy (Highest Temp).</p>

<p>The actual science questions were ridiculously easy.</p>

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<p>I think this June test had some questions that required outside knowledge. Don't remember them though</p>

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<p>voltage i.e.</p>