<p>Try this </p>
<p>Practice one or two sections per night. </p>
<p>Time yourself for each section. </p>
<p>Review what you got wrong and make sure you understand it. </p>
<p>On the weekend try to take a full practice test. Timed. </p>
<p>I think you can look at this as a practice for April. </p>
<p>Good luck. You are ahead of people who do not prepare at all!
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<p>I am taking the test for the first time and I am not good at math at all any suggestions on a study guide?</p>
<p>@XCBro4Life
Practice, Practice, Practice! There is not much else you can do, like not much to learn! Time urself, look at explainations of questions you got wrong, thats about it! Use Real book, PR, Kaplan, Barron, (avoid McGraw), for math ONLY use Gruber 
Hope this helps!</p>
<p>@Brendonsanders For Math Gruber’s is a real good book that goes over everything, it is a little challenging but being overprepared is always good! But dont use Gruber for any of the other sections (not as good)</p>
<p>@VaishS I’ve been getting high 20’s on the math reading and english sections (28-29) however, I have been consistently getting low 20’s (22 and under) on the science. Any advice? I just ordered 1,296 (third edition.)</p>
<p>@XCBro4Life
Science is one of the hardest sections to study for and also my lowest section. There is nothing you can learn to help you, the only thing you can do it practice from different sources and see what you missed. Since you just ordered 1,296 thats a very good book that I have used but dont get frustrated becasue the science section is a litter harder (if u are getting a 23 ur real score may be a 25-26). And even practicing wont help to much since it is very unpredicatable.
I have brought my score in science up 6 point in the past 2 months just by doing practice tests and seeing what I missed, and trying not to get frustrated lol. Thats the only advice I have
Good luck, feel free to ask me any other questions you have!</p>
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<p>Math is all about timing for me. I sweep through the test once and pick off all of the easy questions first, and then on my second pass i spend about a minute on each problem left. </p>
<p>I am using the videos on this site to review any problem I get wrong</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.actquantum.com/releasedacttests/”>http://www.actquantum.com/releasedacttests/</a></p>
<p>There are videos to help with all of the Red book math tests and tests released by ACT.</p>
<p>@kansaskid1
Wow thank you! That website looks really helpful, I am a visual learner and videos really help me! Thank you!</p>
<p>You’re welcome @VaishS. </p>
<p>I notice there are several of you here trying to raise your score by a few points. My son was in the same boat, trying to raise his score of 30 a bit for scholarship purposes. I bought him The Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT (Math was consistently his lowest score), Princeton’s Cracking the ACT, and Barron’s ACT 36. It took him a couple of tries (he wasn’t using the books I’d bought him), but finally, in October he at least spent a week or so with the books, and raised his score to a 32.</p>
<p>My point being, that even though I do think it’s harder to raise your score after you’ve taken it several times and feel you’ve hit a “plateau,” with some effort it can be done, and you guys seem to be on the right track with your studying! If you’ve taken it several times, then you have the advantage of knowing which areas you need to work on!</p>
<p>Prior to the last test, he worked some in the Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT I’d bought him, especially on types of problems he knew he’d missed in the past, and brushed up on his Math formulas. He also read over the types of English questions that ACT covers and made sure he was familiar with the rules of grammar for those, and he said he basically read over the general test-taking tips in the books and also looked at online study and test-taking tips.</p>
<p>He probably would have done even better had he done practice tests the way you guys are doing, but he did match his highest score in English (35), and improved upon his previous high scores in the other subjects by 1 point, so that the October score of 32 was not only his highest composite score to date but also his highest subject scores—his own personal “superscore”, as it were! And with that, he was done. LOL.</p>
<p>I wish you guys the best of luck, and hope that each of you gets the score you need!</p>
<p>This will be the first real time that I’m taking it. I got a 27 in Seventh grade as part of a talent program, so I’m hoping for at least a 31 now that I’ve studied for it.</p>
<p>Thank you 1mississipi. I hope to keep improving. I am on my third test</p>
<p>@kansaskid1 @VaishS Are the Princeton Review books harder than the actual test?</p>
<p>@XCBro4Life
PR is a tad bit harder, not significantly. Expect no more than 1 or 2 point difference though! Overall PR is my favorite because it isnt stupidly easy like McGraw Hill or pointlessly hard like Barron. It’s close to the real thing, and the little challenge helps you be prepared for test day!</p>
<p>@VaishS yeah McGraw Hill blows lol. Also, if you want to get into JHU, I suggest taking all AP’s this year wit one elective. Or as many as you can…</p>
<p>@XCBro4Life
Thanks! its really cool how you know where I want to go! And yeah since rigor of transcript is so important to them, Ill be sure to do that. I have 5 APs next year and 6 senior year (this year I only had 2)! </p>
<p>@VaishS I saw your JHU thread! I want to go there too, but my act sucks:( everything else is good though!</p>
<p>@XCBro4Life
dont worry ACT isnt that important to them lol, but try your hardest! Good luck! If you ever want to talk or have a question (abt ACT or otherwise) just message me! :)</p>
<p>I agree with @VaishS PR tests are harder.</p>
<p>I am getting 28/29 on them. Then I switch back to official ACT and i am in the 30’s.</p>
<p>@VaishS @Kansaskid1 In the PR books I am getting 28-29 reading 27-28 math 28-29 english and 22-23 science what do you all think this would convert to?</p>