Last Minute Tips for Tomorrow

<p>Just put tips here that you think will help people for tomorrow. Here are mine:</p>

<p>English
-When the the topic of the question is adding extra information, if it isn't really relevant, always go for the most concise and shortest one. This messed me up on practice tests.</p>

<p>Math
-Not much to say here, just don't spend too much time on one problem</p>

<p>Reading
-Reading the questions first (questions only, not answers), highlighting lines/words that the questions mention. Then read quickly (little slower than skimming) and take special attention to the parts you highlighted. Answer questions.</p>

<p>Science
-Skip right to the questions, you almost never need to read the passages on the experiments/charts/graphs</p>

<p>That is just what helps me, but it is different for every person. Post your tips here. Best of luck to everyone tomorrow.</p>

<p>Thats a pretty good run down. I agree for math. Your going to have to know how to do the problem. Not much strategy here. I really hate the reading though even though it happened to be my highest score which I dont understand. Science, absolutely do not read the paragraphs unless you really need to.</p>

<p>For reading, a lot of people suggest going straight to the questions that ask about specifc lines or paragraphs and answering them right away. For the rest, you answer either by having a general idea of the passage based on the specific questions, or by reading the passage quickly but maintaining focus.</p>

<p>For math, if you try to solve an algebraic problem for x and don't get the right answer, just plug in the answer choices to see which one makes the equation true. These problems though are always the easiest, so this suggestion won't be useful that often.</p>

<p>I did my first practice test today. I thought the reading would be similar to the SAT CR but it wasn't. I only missed one question in the practice and this is how I went to it. I read the questions first. Then I read and underlined. I skimmed through the parts I knew werent in the questions and read the part containing the questions a bit more carefully. I took a few notes on the side. </p>

<p>Math--ACT math is really easy. Not very tricky. I would just look through some basic formulas like number of diagonals in a polygon.</p>

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<p>Just so you all know, the number of diagonals that a polygon contains is n(n-3)/2 where n is the number of sides.</p>

<p>One thing that I noticed that I made the mistake of every now and then in my practice tests was not thoroughly reading the question/answer choices. Make sure you KNOW when it's a "NOT" question (I think I've made this mistake once on every practice test I've taken :( ).</p>

<p>"the number of diagonals that a polygon contains is n(n-3)/2 where n is the number of sides."</p>

<p>Thank you for that! I'm trying to gather a bunch of these types of equations for the questions that aren't commonly on there. :)</p>

<p>To avoid confusion with parentheses, the equation is (n(n-3)) / 2</p>

<p>IAmNervous: Correct. Technically though, you don't need the parentheses because you use order of operations, n times (n-3) then once you do that divide by two. I am off to take the test. 30+ here we come ;)</p>