<p>Can raising my score 5-6 points be possible for when I take the ACT in June?</p>
<p>Hmmm…One of my kids raised his score 5 points from when he first starting prepping. (So from a practice test to the ultimate real test). The other one raised his score 3 points from the 2nd to 3rd time actually taking it. That involved a lot of targeted practice and some individual help on strategies/content. Good luck.</p>
<p>I went from a 29 in October to a 32 in April</p>
<p>That’s only a month away, good luck to you but I dont think it’s possible</p>
<p>My son got a 24 Oct soph year, a 30 Oct Jr year, and a 32 April Jr. year. You can definitely raise yours, too!</p>
<p>I definitely think that with practice, you can raise your ACT score. I’ll tell you my daughter’s experience because she was able to raise her composite score by 2 points. She took her first practice ACT test the end of February and here are her scores:</p>
<p>Composite ~ 28
English ~ 28
Math ~ 23
Reading ~ 27
Science ~ 34</p>
<p>She took her first real ACT test on April 14th and here are her scores:</p>
<p>Composite ~ 30
English ~ 34 (+6)
Math ~ 30 (+7)
Reading ~ 31 (+4)
Science ~ 25 (-9)</p>
<p>I don’t know what to think about the science. It is so unpredictable for my daughter. She scored a 34 on her first practice test, but then after that one she would usually score between a 26 and a 29. One other practice test she scored a 30, but for her, she understands some of the science sections on some tests, and doesn’t understand some sections on others tests. I think it is just a matter of her being lucky in getting a science section that she understands and can do well on.</p>
<p>My daughter was able to make the most improvement on English and Math. She did this by taking a lot of practice tests, probably about 7 or 8 or so. After taking the tests, we would grade the tests for her, and she would go back and try to determine what the right answer was. She really spent a lot of time going over her wrong answers and trying to figure out why the right answer was the right answer and why the wrong answers were the wrong answers. For English, she also went over some basic grammar rules; there are some good grammar sites out there on the internet that you can easily find that will help you. Once she learned from her mistakes, she really didn’t make the same mistake on similar questions on future tests.</p>
<p>For math, I think just doing and going over a lot of practice tests gave her a good representative sample of the types of questions that are asked on the ACT test. My daughter is very good at math, but I think she was rusty on some of her math skills and made silly mistakes on her first practice test. I think she can probably do better on the math section of the test, but the timing of it forces her to rush and makes silly mistakes that she normally would not make if she was not rushed. It is what it is though, and she will gladly take the score of 30 that she got on her test.</p>
<p>In my opinion, reading and science are the hardest sections to improve on. Like I said earlier in my post, I think it just depends on the particular test that you take, and having that particular test have reading and science sections that you as an individual can do well on. My daughter was most worried about the reading section, and she was able to score a 31 on her first real test. She felt very good about that section of the ACT test after she took it; she said that was the best reading section that she has ever had. I do think the practice tests helped her in that she was able to get a feel for the timing, pacing, and format of the reading section. I think w/just practicing over that month and a half time span, it helped her get a feel for the way questions should be answered. I still think this section is going to be a big “if” for her on future tests, but hopefully doing well on it on her first real test will help give her confidence for future tests.</p>
<p>Science, like I said earlier, is just a big, giant question mark for her. She has not been able to make any significant improvement on this section. I think her first score of 34 on her first practice test was just a fluke. She just clicked w/that particular science section on that test. On the test that she took on April 14th, she didn’t understand the science section and thought she did not do well on it at all. She also took the ACT test through her high school on April 24th (w/out the writing section though) and felt very good about all the sections, including science. She understood that science section really well and thought it was a lot easier than most of the other science sections on the practice tests that she took. We are anxious to see her scores on this test because she thinks she may have done better on the April 24th test than she did on the April 14th test. We still have a few weeks to go until we see her scores.</p>
<p>Here is what my daughter did to prepare: She took an ACT prep class that met every Saturday for 4 hours and every Wednesday for 3 hours. On Saturday, they would take a practice exam, for a total of 5 practice tests. On Wednesday, they would meet w/an instructor and go over material that would be covered on the test. To be honest, I don’t think the prep part really helped her all that much; however, taking the practice exams every Saturday was invaluable to her. Those practice exams really mimicked the conditions of a real test, and it helped her pinpoint her weak areas so that she could work on them. Although I don’t think the prep in and of itself helped her that much, it did force her to set aside those 3 hours every Wednesday evening for prep time, which is something that lot of kids might not have done on their own. In addition to the prep class, we bought her the Real ACT Book and she took several of the practice tests in that book on her own time. I think the Real ACT Book helped a lot because on the answer key it gives detailed instructions on each and every problem contained in the book.</p>
<p>She’s going to take the test again in early June. For the next few weeks she isn’t going to prep that much because she has several AP exams that she is studying for, but after that she is going to start right back at it.</p>
<p>Just try to practice, practice, practice. There are really no shortcuts or tricks to this whole process; just put in the time and you can and will see some meaningful results. Good luck to you!</p>