<p>Which Barron’s book are you using? If it’s the one with six practice tests, then you should probably stop. The book is horribly inaccurate.</p>
<p>The best way to prep for the ACT is to get the Real ACT book and take the five practice tests. Those are actual tests and give you the most accurate approximations. </p>
<p>The science section isn’t based on science knowledge. It’s based on reading charts, graphs, and tables. Although some science knowledge may be required, it is usually very basic biological or chemical knowledge.</p>
<p>I will admit that the timing on the SAT is more lax, but the ACT’s timing is not that hard. For the English section, 45 minutes to answer 75 questions is ample time. I found that I had 5-10 minutes left at the end of the section.
Mathematics requires you to answer at least 1 question per minute. Many of the questions are easy, so you can answer 2-3 easy questions in under a minute. It’s the harder questions that eat up a lot of time, but I recommend you skip them and come back to them later after racking up as many easy points as possible.
The reading section’s timing is really strenuous if you’re one of those people who reads the entire passage and then answers the questions. The ACT reading is structured so that it is beneficial to read the questions (but NOT the answer choices) first and then read the passage in a skimming manner.
The science section is based purely on data and charts. You can ignore the basis of most of the experiments and focus solely on the charts, and you’ll do fine.</p>