<p>ive done a lot of prep for the act this saturday. im shooting for a high score (eventually want to get a 33) and am doing pretty well on the practice tests...except for science. ive already got an idea of where i can find more practice. right now, im just looking for tips. my biggest problem is i run out of time on that section...any tips for the timing or in general for the science section? any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>don't read everything.
get a general idea of what the section is and then just do the questions. you can find most of the information in the graphs. that should save a lot of time.</p>
<p>VeganActress has good advice. Read only as much as <em>you</em> need to successfully answer the quesion - and you will learn that through practice.</p>
<p>When you run out of time, how many questions are left unanswered? Isn't it something like 40 questions in 35 minutes? Regardless, you can divide and figure out how many seconds to allot per question, considering the time needed to bubble in the sheet, check answers, etc. Look at your watch - make sure you bring one! - periodically to keep from getting way behind on this section. If there is a problem that you can't answer after a reasonable amount of time, just bubble in an answer and circle the problem in the booklet and move on to the next one. Come back to it when you finish. Speed, speed, speed...</p>
<p>Is there any one type of problem that slows you down? Graphs? Experiments? Arguing scientists? Time yourself with a stopwatch for each sort of problem on practice material and see how you do. There are certain strategies that can work well for each type of problem - like the ones VA mentioned above.</p>
<p>just letting you know, the week before the ACTs, my daughter was repeatedly getting 18-25 science questions wrong. it wasnt becuase she didnt know what she was doing (since she got a 30 on the real thing), but that the practice tests from the other books are harder. dont be discouraged. the science section on the real test is a lot easier</p>
<p>thank you everyone for your tips! i usually have about 3 or 4 questions left. and its definitely the sections with the scientist's arguments that holds me up. i have started reading less and looking at the graphs more, that has definitely help. now i just have to conquer the quarreling scientists!</p>
<p>For the scientists' viewpoints, some people actually annotate as they read these two passages -- paying attention to each scientist's position, reasons, contributing factors, result, etc., jotting them down once -- which reduces the number of re-reads required in order to answer questions. Other people don't annotate anything, but rather choose to re-read as they look up each question. Try both, see which one works for you.</p>