<p>Today, I took the ACT for the first time. I struggled on finishing reading, science, and writing sections (math was easy). I had like 3-4 left on my reading, 5-7 left on my science reasoning, and 2 left on my writing. It seems to me that I am doing the test too slowly. Is there any methods that will help me do the questions faster? </p>
<p>I just found that multiple practice tests helped me to figure out the pace I had to go at. I started off not finishing reading, math, science, or the essay, and after around 4 practice tests, could figure out my pace and yesterday when I took it, I had an average of 3-4 min left after each section to check my work.</p>
<p>I did this the first time as well. Don’t worry. </p>
<p>To help internalize a pace, taketimed tests until you can comfortably finish all the questions.</p>
<p>Math about 1 minute per question, I try to save at least 18 minutes for the last 10. I sweep through the test and pick off the easy ones first</p>
<p>8 minutes per passage for Science.</p>
<p>Reading read each passage for 4 minutes and answer questions for 6 minutes.</p>
<p>English allows only 45 minutes for 75 questions. That gives you a minute and a half to read passages and 30 seconds to answer each question.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
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<p>English just takes practice.</p>
<p>Reading required speed reading. Keep in mind you only need to remember that content for a few minutes. Don’t read to slow. This really just takes practice. One method is to physically use a pencil. Move the pencil faster than you read so that your eyes have to follow it. I didn’t do this. I just practiced. Over 17 practice tests, I improved from taking 4-5 minutes per passage to sprinting through at 1.5-2 minutes per passage. My scores are 33-35 on reading.</p>
<p>Science can be improved with little extra work. There are 7 passages. 3 with 5 questions, 3 with 6 questions, and 1 with 7 questions. This is important. 5 questioners don’t require you to read the passage; they refer to 95% graphs. Thus, by counting the questions you can save up to 6-9 minutes on these passages alone. Sixers require only graphs roughly 70-95% of the time. I generally do not read the passage unless the questions calls for it. Here you can save another 5 minutes. Seveners MUST be read. They are a reading section based on science. All seven questions will rely on knowledge from the passage. Now, one more thing. Do the science out of order. 5ers first, then 6ers and lastly the 7er. This saves time and improves your score by allowing you to relax more as the difficulty increases.</p>
<p>And as a general tip. Bring a watch!!! Know where you need to be at very point in the test! I had this down to exact times and I know exactly when to slow down or speed up.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help!</p>