Just bombed science....How exactly do you prepare for the "new" science section?

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I prepped HARD on the science for this test, taking a whole slew of practice tests from the red book and mcgraw hill and it ended up being the section that totally shafted me.

I’m used to seeing 5 question, 6 question, and 7 question passages but the April 2015 one only had 6’s and 7’s which caught me off guard and I ended up totally running out of time and being forced to guess on like 7+.

Cumulative: 30
English - 33
Math - 32
Reading - 34
Science - 22 (!!!)

Are there any prep books that replicate the “new” difficulty of the ACT Science? I’m honestly not worried about all the other sections, the only reason I did so poorly in math was because I lost track of time.
I was thinking about getting a Barron’s book because they’re supposed to be super hard. Clearly the tests that ACT releases in the prep books are totally useless.

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I found the science material in the PR 1296 to be more similar to the difficulty of the latest ACT. It still has the 5, 6, and 7 question passages but the actual material I found to be harder than the other recourses I used.

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What do you mean how do you study for it? Everything is the same except that there are no more 5Q passages.

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Was the old science section easier or the new one? The new one has one less passage.

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The “new” 6-passage version is decidedly easier than the “old” 7-passage version since there’s less time pressure.