<p>I took my first ACT in June and am taking it again in December. The first time, my math score was significantly lower than the rest of my subscores, so I was wondering what is the best way to study math for the ACT? Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>My science could also do with some improvement (math and science were 29 and 30, respectively, while reading and english were 35 and 34).</p>
<p>All I did to improve my math score was a lot of practice problems. Just google “act math practice” or something similar and there are tons of practice problems. Whenever you get one wrong, try the problem to see if it was just a stupid mistake or if it is a concept you don’t understand. If it’s a stupid mistake, move on. If you don’t understand the problem, google it. Purplemath.com has good explanations of topics and Khan Academy has good videos (and practice problems!). </p>
<p>Do a full practice test out of a prep book every now and again, under real conditions. That will allow you to see how much you’ve progressed from the practice problems. And more importantly, you see where you made mistakes. Grade your test, and read the explanations for all of them. It’ll help you see what kind of stupid mistakes you make, topics you still don’t understand, if you need to work on timing, and it might give you some shortcuts on problems that you knew but had to use a long or complication process to solve. </p>
<p>That’s exactly what I did, and my math score went from 28 my first try in October 2012 to a 33 in September 2013.</p>