<p>I keep barely finishing the reading and science sections while finishing with ample time left in the math and english sections. Does anyone know of good reading material or software-that works-that can help me out?</p>
<p>that's just how those tests are, I don't know of anybody who can actually finish them with much time left--most people can't even finish them</p>
<p>theres literally no good way to speed through the reading.. its just so tedious. science i find it easier completely skip reading the experiment/whatnot, then quickly reference question to experiment # and so forth</p>
<p>For science, I found out, you shouldn't be reading at all.</p>
<p>Reading, I just skim, kinda get the picture, and then go to the questions and find it, and end up reading it again (the paragraph).</p>
<p>I would try the techniques in the PR book, Cracking the ACT. They're very good for improving your speed. You definitely shouldn't be really reading the passages.</p>
<p>THE BEST TECHNIQUE FOR READING IF YOU CANT FINISH</p>
<p>I found the questions on the reading to be pretty basic. I could usually get them all right but I could not finish for the life of me. SO....</p>
<p>*<em>I decided that I would spend around 10 minutes on each of the first three passages. I would read them at a leisure pace and then answer the questions.
*</em>I would have five minutes left. I would spend these last five minutes on the science or social science passage. I would simply skip straight to the questions (in these areas there are usually questions that require looking at one line or a name of an animal or place) All that was needed was to search the passage for that answer and answer the question.
**I could probably answer maybe a couple of questions like this. Then randomly guess on the ones that are left.</p>
<p>Given that you got questions from the three passages right or one or two wrong and one or two from the last passge right you should get around a thirty. </p>
<p>In my opinion this is a pretty good score. If you do great on the other sections this should pull you down to much and if you are happy with 30 area than awesome.</p>
<p>I got a 36 in both reading and science so maybe I can help.</p>
<p>For science, seriously do not read at all. I saw that in a forum here before I took the test and I am so glad I did. Skip the passage/graphs/everything and go straight to the first question. The questions usually tell you exactly where to go (Ex. In Table 3..etc.) to find your answer. Even with that though, I was running out of time at the end so make sure not to linger on any that seem difficult - just go back to them at the end.</p>
<p>For reading, I finished with about 10 minutes to spare. I just read through the passages and then answered the questions but I guess I must be an extremely fast reader or something - but I don't read in-depth or for understanding. I'm skimming to get the general idea of the passage cause there's always a couple questions about that. The more specific questions you can reference back to a specific part of the pssage and just read that part to be able to answer that question.</p>
<p>Wow, nice job sljaeger. I always jack those two categories up. It must be that I'm deficient at them and plus the fact that my brain is dying by that point in the test. With those mad skills, you probably aced the ACT, didn't you?</p>
<p>I went to the ACT help thing one morning in my English teacher's room and she suggested to read the questions first and then skim the passage.. Don't read it!</p>
<p>I've also read somewhere to read the passage (or skim) and underline the important parts.. or answers if you read that first.. </p>
<p>OR mark the questions by category.. I forgot what they were but basically, some answers can be found in the passage and some can't.. So do the ones you can find first and then come back to the others later or something.. I thought that would be kind of time-wasting, but.. yeah.</p>
<p>Reading is my weakest, though.. I took the PLAN (I'm a sophomore) a few months ago and got a 30 on my math and English, but only a 26 on my reading.. All of my scores have gone up by 6 or more since the time I took the ACT in.. 7th grade I think it was (Duke University Talent Identification Program) but my reading has only gone up 4.. 3 from 8th grade (because it went from 22 in 7th to 21 in 8th).</p>