<p>As the title says, anyone who's take the ACT on Feb 6th can join! :)</p>
<p>I’m taking it! I feel comfortable with English and math; not so much reading and science. Do you guys have any special strategies that help you to score 30+ on these sections?</p>
<p>JuB- there isn’t a secret, just practice!</p>
<p>I agree with Deposition. I have finals this week so I didn’t even start studying for ACT. Do you think it is possible to study everything in 1 week?</p>
<p>wannago2college - just take as many practice tests as you can before then.</p>
<p>in regards to the reading section - will practice make me faster? I usually take about 9.5 minutes per passage and am only scoring around 22-26. any suggestions?</p>
<p>wanago2college- I have lots of friends who only studied for three days and got 32 or more. Don’t forget to time yourself, and go over problems you didn’t get. I’m sure you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>JuB- What I do is I basically skim through a paragraph and answer about two or three questions related to that. The questions are pretty straightforward and unlike the SAT reading, the passages are pretty easy to understand.
And for the science section, I find it pretty easy because I currently take chemistry and biology because a lot of questions are related to the topics I’ve covered. If you’re not so confident about it, just pay ATTENTION to the graphs and charts. </p>
<p>And my advice to everyone: If you’re not so great in math sections, try Cliffs.
Science= Princeton Review and Cliffs
Reading= Official ACT book and PR
English= PR</p>
<p>I find that Cliffs have pretty difficult math and science sections whereas PR and the official study guide have difficult English and reading secs. </p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>I’m an east coaster and not many people take the ACTs around here so I have no idea what to expect and would like to get your feedback. I’m not sure how to or if I should study, but as of now I havn’t. I would also like to know how comfortably people generally finish. Do you feel rushed or do you have some time at the end?</p>
<p>Ok it seems I’m taking 30 seconds too much on each passage of the reading section. Hopefully with some practice I can take that down a bit.</p>
<p>my 1st ACT tomr!!!</p>
<p>how did everyone think it was?
I thought that everything was so much easier than the one in December, when i got 30.</p>
<p>feelin like i got between 29 and 31. really hopin for that 30+</p>
<p>Tips on the Reading section:</p>
<p>Read each passage THOROUGHLY. I’m not telling you to peruse every passage and take an unnecessarily long time, but whatever time you “waste” while you read the passage is easily made up when you can answer the 10 questions very quickly without referring back to the passage. If you understand the main points and some minor details in every passage, you will answer the questions very easily and will usually finish with time to spare.</p>
<p>I second that. I went from low 30s high 20s to 34-36 in reading just by taking the time to fully read each passage instead of skipping to the questions or skimming the passage.</p>
<p>olleger and getoutofmyyard - i thought i was the only one who felt this way. i was trying to do the other strategies like do the ones that refer to lines or individual paragraphs first. it would take me so long to get the questions done. if i take time to read the passage i usually have about 4 minutes left for question and then they’re on the top of my head</p>
<p>^what reading scores have you guys gotten on previous tests?</p>
<p>34 last year.</p>
<p>I actually don’t have the accurate stats to back my comment up but when I took the ACT in September I only got a 24 on the reading and that was because I tried to nit pick: defining words, any question that reffered to specific paragraphs, and then I would race to read before the 8 minutes and 45 seconds were up for the left over questions. From the Rebook and Princeton Review practice tests I got between 28-31 on reading sections.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten a 36, 35, 34, and 33 on the reading section of the ACT before and I always read the passage completely, unless I get a 5-minute warning mid-reading.</p>