<p>How hard is it? I was overwhelmed by the timing on the ACT though. The science section also had me CLUELESS although I scored a 26 somehow (no idea).</p>
<p>It was my first time taking the ACT; although, I DID study out of the Princeton Review book. I read through the whole book, but I did NOT take any practice tests so I guess that explains why my timing was a bit off.</p>
<p>Anyhow, how realistic and difficult is it to raise my ACT score 3-4 points with the time I have left? I know it would be overwhelming to try and raise your SAT score by 300-400 points, but I'm not taking the SAT. I've got about 2 weeks here to get my ACT score up. Possible?</p>
<p>Also, what does the ACT English subscore, "rhetorical skills," mean? Is that the same thing as the reading section inside the English test?</p>
<p>don't worry about it, i went from mid twenties to mid thirties within 3 act tests. it's all about the timing. once you have mastered that, the act really isn't that bad! </p>
<p>Take it again. My daughter went from a 31 to a 34 without doing any extra studying. She just felt less overwhelmed by the ridiculously long test when she retook it. It's worth a try.</p>
<p>I went from a 31 (september ACT) to a 35 (october ACT) just by doing two or three practice tests (one of which was the official online one on the act website)..it's very possible</p>
<p>just do some practice tests and make sure that you follow the time limit when you practice because the act is all about time management. doing this bumped me up to a 33</p>
<p>Hoping to bump a 29 to a 30 haha -_- I went down from a 29 to a 28 so at this point, anywhere in the 30s makes me happy. I'm getting desperate, I guess.</p>
<p>Good luck to you! Hope you attain your goal :D</p>
<p>definately possible. i went from a 26-30, i got the 26 in april and just got the 30 in october. i spent about two weeks studying for the 26 and didn't study again til about 1 week before the one i got a 30 on. </p>
<p>get both the princeton review book and the real act one, take all the practice tests and review every question even if you got it right. </p>
<p>spend alot of time on english, that is probaly the easiest of the scores to raise. memorize the punctuation rules that are in pr, and by studying the problems in the real act you should get a good sense of everything else. </p>
<p>math: not really sure how i got a 27 on math the first time i took the test because i was getting 33+s on practices but i dunno. the one i just took i got a 29, but i think that had a crazy curve for math because i guessed on about 8 of them. you probaly can get a 26-28 on math just on our own but really focus on what they are asking and be able to narrow it down to at least 2 answers so you can get lucky and guess.</p>
<p>reading: i always did, the history like passage and science passages 1st and 2nd because science answers are word for word and history usually has a few like that+sometimes has a passage im very familar with. then do the humanities and fiction because those always seem to take more time+the answers aren't word for word you have to figure it out. always do questions that refer to lines first, then specific things, then the "what does the author mean" type of questions, and finally the EXCEPT or NOT problems last. also very important is realizing that none of these questions are designed to be tricky or make you analyze deeply-take the passage for what its worth if you know what i mean. not very good at describing this but the act wants all questions to be capable of being done by the average person-and the average person scores like what a 20 on reading? the average person is way below your intelligence level. think basic and pick the questions that an average person could get but never does if you know what i mean can't describe it. i went from 530-640 reading on sat this way, and +3 on reading on act even though i had to guess on 3. </p>
<p>science: the pr science didn't help me at all, so use the real act here. very important to look at every single problem and see the reasoning behind them even if you got it right. try to get a sense of how they think and the patterns in the answers. usually alot of the problems are based on charts and graphs you can just look at. the harder ones usually make you take a pattern in the info and make up a word problem with it. again really important like the reading is to try to pick the ones that the average person would pick but never does. they aren't really trying to trick you, they just word it really badly and pressure you with how quickly you have to think so you make a mistake.</p>
<p>The best way to increase the english, math, and reading scores is to take as many practice tests as possible. Take a lot of SAT pratice tests (i found more SAT prac tests than the ACT at the library so...). That helped a me a lot. It boosted my score from a 27 to a 31</p>