Can't Stop Stressing

Test Preparation ACT Preparation
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<p>I only need optimism right now, please. :/ I'm stressing more than ever about the ACT. I couldn't sleep last night. My last ACT score breakdown was: </p>

<p>Composite - 27
Math - 27
English - 33
Reading - 20
Science - 29
Writing - 8</p>

<p>Now the only two that I'm stressed about are Reading and Math. I know it's fu***** terrible to say, but I don't even think I made a 20 on the Reading test this time. I was just getting finished with my third passage (I work backwards from IV-I) once 5 minutes was called. On Math, I had to guess on about 6 of them. I'm freaking out, not because I'm worried about getting accepted somewhere, I'm doing undergrad at Auburn more than likely, but because my parents will be more than disappointed to find out that I did worse than a freaking 20. English, Science, and my essay went extremely well for me, but Reading and Math will bring me down so much.</p>

<p>I studied so much to improve on the Reading and Math. In the last week of studying prior to the test, I made 30's across the board on all of my practice tests. If anyone could help calm me down by telling me good strategies to get my mind off of this for the next 5 weeks that would be wonderful. </p>

<p>Also, I'm taking the SAT for the first time in 2 weeks. Do people that have trouble in Reading on the ACT usually benefit or fall to disaster w/ the SAT's critical reading? My Reading comprehension is good if I actually have time to read what I'm supposed to read.</p>

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<p>The questions on the ACT’s reading are far easier (for most people at least) than the SAT’s because they’re usually directly stated in the text. That being said, you have way more time on the SAT. I totally ran out of time on my first ACT reading so my critical reading was a bit better on the SAT (except I think that my ACT from yesterday will destroy my SAT). The only thing that might be an issue is that the SAT tests you on vocabulary. I think there are about 17 questions with sentence completion on them (some are easy and test you on words like “chaotic” and “abridge” while some are a little crappy and ask for harder terms such as “serendipity” and “apotheosis”. It really is luck of the draw. But the overall reading should be easier for you.</p>