Need 4 more points on ACT..can it be done?

Test Preparation
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<p>How realistic is it to improve your ACT score significantly? Has anyone here really bombed it one time and then done really well the next? It seems that it would be really difficult to improve your composite score..D1 needs 4 more points to get in-state tuition waver at her first choice school..just wondering if there's any hope..she has only taken it once..in April..and the Science killed her..</p>

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<p>Personally, I think the trick to the science is not letting it freak you out. The first time I took it, I bombed. Then I took a few practices just to get comfortable, and the next time my science score jumped eight points. My composite also went up four points. It’s not impossible.</p>

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<p>i was projected to get a 27 on the ACT from my plan scores, but i took a lot of practice tests and reviewed math concepts and ended up with a 32 first time.</p>

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<p>I took it once in 9th grade and got a 31…
then when i took it for real in 11th grade, I got a 36. </p>

<p>its all about the practice tests and what you do to familiarize yourself with it. After you do like ten of them, the answers become really obvious because ACT follows a really distinctive pattern. Once you figure it out, its really easy</p>

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I would say that the PLAN is a pretty bad predictor of real ACT scores.</p>

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Yes, it’s all about practice. But where did you get 10 ACT practice tests? Or were they not all from the ACT company?</p>

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<p>When I took my ACT this February, I got an ACT composite score of 27. Then, when I took my ACT this April I got an ACT composite score of 31.</p>

<p>When I first took my ACT, I had no preparation, but, when I got my score of 31, I preprared with ACT prep courses. The class was very small and I got a lot of individual attention. It helped a lot!</p>

<p>It just takes the ability to understand the general questions that are asked in the different portions of the ACT, and it becomes much easier. </p>

<p>Stay optimistic because it is definitely possible to improve your score by 4 points!</p>

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<p>The plan said id get a 27, i got a 33</p>

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<p>Sure it’s possible. I got a 27 as a sophomore, a 31 as a junior, and a 34 as a senior. It’s just all about familiararity and not letting the test get to you.</p>

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<p>@driscol</p>

<p>I think 3 of them were the “REAL ACT” red book, 3 from Princeton Review, and a random smattering of others from random prep books… Maybe I re-did ones I had already done? </p>

<p>Those real act ones are the best though… but I hear the Barrons are extreme hard and make the real act seem like a cake walk.</p>

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<p>My D1 got a 28 on the math section after her sophomore year, and she just took it again here in March of her junior year because we hoped it would go higher after she took Trig. She did go up four points, including in other subsections of math, and a point up in English as well, to get her composite up to 34. She did practice tests from books before the first one, but not much before the second. She had not taken the PLAN or the PSAT in her sophomore year, so I think practice in real time in these tests is helpful. The first time she ran out of time on her math, the second time she didn’t.</p>

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<p>It can be done. I did it… twice.</p>