My somewhat amusing ACT experience.

<p>So I decide to take the ACT. It was pure impulse and I pretty much regretted it right after I paid them my 40 dollars or whatever. So anyway, I have never opened an ACT book in my entire life and I heard that some kids do better on it. I'm thinking, "Hey I have a 1350 on the SATs maybe I will do better on the 'easier' ACT!" So I walk in and the first two sections are a breeze, math and english were insanely easy. So then after my break I get cocky and think that I can slay the reading and science sections (I haven't taken a science course in two years). </p>

<p>I sit down and the reading rapes me. I'm a slow reader and ended up guessing on about 10 questions, so I was like whatever. Then the science section... I seriously had no idea what was happening. When there was 5 minutes left I had about 20 questions to go. So that last experiment that was really hard...Yea I didn't even get to that. I guessed on about 15 there. </p>

<p>All of this is happening while this morbidly obese emo girl is finishing every section in seriously under ten minutes. I mean this girl seriously couldn't fit into a desk and they had to set up a makeshift workspace for her. The fist few sections I thought she might be really smart or something. But when she finished her essay in 3 minutes, I concluded that she was actually mentally challenged.</p>

<p>I still don't know anything about the ACT. How many questions right per section will give you a good score? Is it like the SAT where if you miss one question your score can drop 20 points?</p>

<p>yeah, the timing on the ACT seemed pretty insane the first time I took it. But hey, next time you'll be ready. If I'd were you I'd seriously consider taking another crack at it.</p>

<p>You don't lose points for guessing wrong, so it's good that you at least filled in everything. On the ACT you gotta be able to pace yourself. If you run low on time hit the easy ones first and eliminate on ones you can. Search the forum for some tips... I'm pretty sure there is a chart outlining approximate answers right vs score posted somewhere here.
Math and english is about what you know (and you seemed to do fine there) The other two multiple choice sections are all about timing... Buy/borrow the prep books with multiple tests. You will start getting the hang of these with practice</p>

<p>Do some prep and try again. </p>

<p>This isn't the worst ACT experience I've heard. Someone reported on another forum of having construction outside, one fellow student moaning and then suddenly declaring he couldn't take it anymore and running from the room, and then the person behind him or her throwing up. Count your blessings :)</p>

<p>Yeah, when I took the ACT there were a few people finishing 15-20 minutes early on the reading and science sections. At first I thought they were really intelligent. But I knew these people, and I knew they weren't that smart, so I realized that they must have been guessing on so many questions as to finish early 15 minutes early.</p>

<p>i had 15 left on english, 10 left on math, 5 left on reading, and 10 left on science and i dint guess on one... you just have to remember to push/pressure yourself</p>