Need tips for reading & science sections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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<p>Just some background info: </p>

<p>Im a junior who is decently smart (2290 sats).
I want to go to top school but I'm not very satisfied with my sat score.
Then I realized how easy the act was compared to the sat, so I decided to give it a shot, but I have 1 problem: The Timing.</p>

<p>I am good enough at the English and Math sections to get every question right with more than enough time to check over all of my answers</p>

<p><strong><em>The PROBLEM</em></strong></p>

<p>I have trouble finishing the READING and the SCIENCE sections on the test, and I have to usually guess at least 4-5 questions on the reading, and 4-5 on the science passages</p>

<p>So I was just wondering, would my speed increase for these 2 sections as I do a lot more practice? I've only done maybe 4 practices for individual sections, and they were out of the 1296 PR Book </p>

<p>ALSO, if anyone has done really well on either of these 2 sections, reading AND/OR science, care to offer any tips on how to quickly finish?</p>

<p>So far, the only stradegies I use are</p>

<p>For Reading: If theres a lot of line references in a passage, read the questions first, then go to the passage and look for the answer, then go to another queston, find the answer, and eventually, after doing all of the line reference questions, I would've read enough to have read through hthe entire passage and get the main idea anyways</p>

<p>If theres not a lot of line references in the questions, I just read the whole passage and then answer the questions afterwards</p>

<p>I also go passage 3, 4, 2, then 1</p>

<p>For science: I just read the question, find the answer, and do the passages in order of the number of questions it has ( 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7)</p>

<p>however, I usually only get to 3ish questions on the 7 question passage and I have to guess on the rest :/</p>

<p>What should I DO?!</p>

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<p>What should you do? More practice.</p>

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<p>The reading and science are the two sections that are the hardest to improve. This is because they require you to be a fast reader which is typically something you either are or are not and changing that is hard, but not impossible. What you need to do is read as much as you can. If possible, try to read for a few hours every day this summer.
Of course, doing practice tests over and over will help too, since you should get to the point where you fully understand the way the questions are worded.</p>

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<p>I agree that practice does make the change. Your SAT score shows that you definitely have the goods to do well. We use similar methods! I used the same method for both ACT and SAT and since I’ve started using the method I’ve always gotten (literally) all the reading questions right. Noitaraprep’s method works the best for me. However, for the ACT I do feel a little rushed. I have to tweak the Noitaraprep method because the ACT questions are generally vaguer and don’t have as many line references (sigh, I wish it did have more though!). When I practice I list out the keywords or phrases in each question and read the passage. My list is usually at some margin where I can cross out what I’ve read/done. When I see any word from my list mentioned in the passage then I answer the corresponding questions. But if you already have a solid method for you then no need to listen to me. :smiley: </p>

<p>But your main concern: time. If you are just going to practice like crazy then every time you do a reading/science section shave off some time from the clock. Get used to a shorter time period. </p>

<p>It’s okay. I have the same issues too. :(</p>

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<p>Just practice. I need help in them too. Forunately, we have around 3 months to prepare. Buy the red book and do all the tests and buy barron’s act 36 so your not only prepared but over prepared. Hopefully, we’ll both see improvements in the red book scores which I hear are a pretty accurate estimated score on test day.</p>

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<p>*fortunately</p>