<p>Oh, do what i’m doing atm. I’m studying the SAT writing mutiple choice problems to help me do better on the ACT english part. Never a bad idea to know more grammar rules.</p>
<p>Oh, I dunno.</p>
<p>I’m really only studying for the ACT right now, and even though SAT writing would help, it would still just be too much of a burden. Thanks for the advice as always, cjgone. :)</p>
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<p>Well that’s good, but you haven’t gone through the classes yet. I am also taking all of those next year (self-studying Bio), but I already have taken honors bio, physics, and chem by the time I took the ACT.</p>
<p>You will be FINE. I wouldn’t worry, just practice the problems and you will be fine.</p>
<p>Well, before the summer ended, I contacted my school’s Honors biology and chem teachers, and they gave me stuff to prepare me for APs.</p>
<p>I have been studying for hours every day since. I am taking an online physics course also.</p>
<p>^Agreed.
For the science section, skip directly to the questions and learn to read graphs very well. That’s really all there is to it besides the scientific method.
English is lots of grammar.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>just keep working as hard as you are and you’ll be guaranteed a top score</p>
<p>Dang, so much posting and optimism; thanks!</p>
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<p>Haha, that’s what we’re here for…</p>
<p>I guess, but I mean it just all suddenly popped up.</p>
<p>Wierd…</p>
<p>time for another bump</p>
<p>still accepting any ACT advice :)</p>
<p>Don’t waste your ACT books or practice tests yet. Wait until after 10th because you’ll end up without anything to practice when you actually have enough knowledge to get a better score.</p>
<p>^ I think review stuff as much as I want, and I don’t remember questions in practice tests, so I can retake.</p>
<p>^Yea, that actually helped me. I forgot half the tests. I did them in 07 tho…</p>
<p>so there you go. ;)</p>
<p>bump.</p>
<p>Any more reading advice?</p>
<p>Anyone?</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshman and took the ACT (without writing) for the first time in April. She is homeschooled, but also enrolled in a homeschool tutorial. A standardized test is required by her tutorial each year, but instead of the tutorial achievement test, I opted for the ACT because it is less expensive with a closer testing site and lasted only one morning instead of two. With her duties in student council, piano lessons, flute lessons, homeschool band, concert performances, preparation for recital, church activities, her social life, and school, she really didn’t have time to study the ACT Prep books I bought her. </p>
<p>Her composite score was 24. Her highest score was 29 in English. The other scores: Math 22, Reading 23, Science 21. Her scores are not as impressive as yours–lots of room for improvement, but hey, I was just hoping she would not score so low that she would be discouraged. With a composite above 21, she has already earned her honors ribbon for when she graduates. At the test site, she only knew one other student and felt pretty out of place. All the other kids used their learner’s permit as their ID. She doesn’t have hers yet, so she had to use her passport. She felt like she was the youngest one taking the test there, though she had just turned 15. </p>
<p>On certain test dates you can order the test you took along with the correct answers and your answers. I ordered that and hope my daughter will take the time to go over it. She may not have time to go over it immediately though. With plans to go on the homeschool tutorial cruise, a mission trip to Honduras, a week-long church camp, season passes to the water park, music lessons, her busy social life, helping with a summer conference (Do Hard Things), jam sessions with the band, visits to grandparents, Student Council, possibly volunteering at a hospital, etc., the summer will fly by. </p>
<p>She took Biology and Geometry this year. Next year she will take Algebra II and Anatomy. As a junior she will take preCalculus and Chemistry. Her tutorial offers a year long course entitled ACT Math Prep and she will probably take that at some point. I think her ACT score will improve as she takes these classes and learns more. Plans are for her to take the ACT in the spring each year. She may also take the PSAT in her sophomore and junior year. Is the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) an option for you?</p>