<p>This Saturday will be my second time to take the ACT, on the first one I got E:20 R:16 M:24 S:25, which was really shocking to me because reading and writing have always been my favorite/best subjects.
Anyway, for this ACT I've really been working hard. I realized that obviously my reading had to go up so I've been reading books all year and managed to improve that to a 25 on the last practice tesf. However, the English is still KILLING me. I've been going in every morning to my English teacher for prep, and even got an hour lesson from the head of my school's English department after school today. I came home thinking I'd surely improved, only to see that it was my worst score yet, I missed 28 questions.. 😞 It's really embarassing for me, since my brother got a 32 but I'm just not sure what to do. I've taken 6 practice tests and nothing seems to work for the English and it's beginning to discourage me as time runs out. I probably should have focused more on it leading up to this but it's too late for that now. I'm not sure if it'd help, but I'm not reading the story as I go, I'm just reading the sentence that has the question to save time. Honestly, I'm open to any suggestions at this point and thank you for your help.</p>
<p>Any suggestions help a ton</p>
<p>Have you tried the SAT? If you’re stuck with the ACT, perhaps the ACT does not play to your strengths.</p>
<p>I haven’t tried that, but that’s probably a good idea. I got an 8 on the writing part, and I’m a pretty strong writer I think SAT has more writing. I got all 4’s on all of my writing TAKS test too</p>