<p>yea i am still so frusturating anyone know when we get scores</p>
<p>Anyone with experience know why status may still be registered after scores come out? I know the range is June 24-August 2, but it seems like most of you got your scores…</p>
<p>I got 16 and 14 and got a 30. Possibly missed 4-5</p>
<p>@Nspire, I got a 35 today on my first shot (35,35,35,36) and I’ll tell you what I did.</p>
<p>English: Honestly, I didn’t read a single passage, I just started with the questions, and for every question that I thought was tough, I would say it aloud. The pausing can get very difficult with commas and semicolons, but you get used to it after a while. The questions like “which would best be inserted here” I save for the very end.</p>
<p>Math: Just speed through it, no real strategy. Skip the hard ones.</p>
<p>Reading: I spend 3 minutes just reading the passage, and I underline important facts, and circle really important facts. When I go to the question that says “in lines 3-16, what is philip’s favorite past time?” I immediately go to those lines and box them off. That helps me focus, as the answer will always be between those lines</p>
<p>Science: Honestly, I feel like science is the most straightforward because they give you the answers in the tables/charts. I don’t really read the passages, I skim over them and then spend more time focusing on the tables/charts. </p>
<p>Practice Wise: Reading the books didn’t help at all. I just had a book of 10 tests from McGraw-Hill and I took about 4 full tests, and 3 additional sections of English. Going over the answers with explanations helped the most. For the most part, I feel like ACT is general knowledge with analysis and interpretation rather than sheer memorization, which is why I feel like informational books like Barron’s didn’t help me.</p>
<p>First time posting so here goes it…
C: 35
E: 35
M: 35
R: 35
S: 36
W: 8</p>
<p>So I know this is a good score but should I take it again? I want to go to a really high-end school, like University of Chicago or Columbia, but I don’t know if a 36 vs a 35 really makes that much of a difference. I’m just going into my junior year so I have lots of time to study for that last point.</p>
<p>Why does everyone say that science is simply about the charts?
Sure, understanding the graphs and whatnot could get you a 30, but knowing actual science and chemistry will get you to a 34+. A couple examples -
On the June ACT, it asked whether acetylcholine was a neurotransmitter or a hormone, then it had a justification statement after it. Had I not taken AP bio this year and learned about synapses and motor-neuron synapses, that whole passage and that question in particular would have been RIDICULOUSLY hard.
Also, there was a section about Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. With no previous knowledge on what that is, I would have been so lost. Maybe I would have had to have spent an extra 3-5 minutes just trying to understand what the experiment is talking about.</p>
<p>I remember on one ACT test there was a section on some chemical reaction, and it gave you the balanced formula. Later in that passage, there was a question where you had to predict (using the molar ratios) the amount of Fluorine produced from a different unbalanced reaction. That’s stoichiometry!!! Had I not taken Chemistry that year, I would have gotten like 2/6 correct on that passage. Stoiciometry isn’t hard, but if you’ve never even heard of that before, it could be ridiculously difficult for anyone. </p>
<p>So what I’m saying is that while yes, a huge part is simply understanding the graphs/passage, the key to an exemplary score is actual knowledge of general biology and chemistry.</p>
<p>Totally agree. In the international ACT science section, there were questions that required knowledge about base pairs of DNA and the ideal gas law.</p>
<p>I think scienece is getting harder.</p>
<p>35 - composite!
35 - science
35 - English
34 - math
34 - reading</p>
<p>No writing score yet… I guess that’s why the “glitch” didn’t work.</p>
<p>I’ve actually never been happier with any test results ever!</p>
<p>Got my scores this evening. They really reflect my background…I am 38 years old and haven’t done much math for 15 years so I tried to really study up over the past 2 months, but it wasn’t enough for the June test 
I can also see in my scores the fact that I work in an office sending emails and writing documents all day: my English and reading were both 35.</p>
<p>I used the red book, “cracking”, and Barron’s. I studied for a couple months, 5-10 hours a week. </p>
<p>My science score surprised me the most–I actually got as high as a 35 doing timed red book practice tests, but I think I had partly started to give up after the math section since I thought I really bombed it (like a 23 or something) so I was just thinking “ugh I am going to have to retake this whole thing anyway”…</p>
<p>Comp: 31
English: 35
Math: 28
Reading: 35
Science: 25</p>
<p>I’m going to retest. I’m taking some math classes and studying more so I’m sure I’ll do better in math the next time.</p>
<p>You’re right, @levlev, I didn’t think about that at all. I was running out of time for science, and the second I got to the Hardy-Weinberg questions I breathed a sigh of relief- they took me like a minute in total. Taking AP Bio really helped.</p>
<p>I disagree. I didn’t think the science section was all about the charts, but I think you can get by not knowing anything with just really good reading comprehension. I have taken only bio 1 and chem 1 and I knew absolutely nothing about neurons or hormones or honestly anything in that passage, but I got a 36 from reading carefully. It certainly would have easier with more knowledge, but a 36 is possible with no background.</p>
<p>Compositr score : 35!!!
English 35
MAth 36
REading 33
SCience 36
I have never been happier!!!</p>
<p>I’m an international student and my status is still “registered”.</p>
<p>Does it usually take longer for international students to know their scores?</p>
<p>English: 35
Mathematics: 33
Reading: 30
Science: 34
Writing: 10/12
Composite: 33</p>
<p>My math score is a lot lower than I was hoping, because I love math and wanted to do really well 
I thought English was easy and reading was hard; my scores reflect this. However, the science came as a total shock. I seriously guessed for over half the questions and didn’t even read the conflicting view points portion. I ran out of time and thought for sure it would ruin my composite score, but somehow I ended up with a 34 for the subject!!</p>
<p>This was my first time, and I’m pretty happy with the results. I have to take it again in April next year, because my school requires it. Hoping I can raise it to a 34-35, since I didn’t study this time around!</p>
<p>Composite: 36</p>
<p>English: 36
-Usage/Mechanics: 18
-Rhetorical Skills: 18</p>
<p>Math: 35
-Pre-Algebra/Elem. Algebra: 17
-Algebra/Coord. Geometry: 18
-Plane Geometry/Trig.: 17</p>
<p>Reading: 35
-Social Studies/Sciences: 18
-Arts/Literature: 17</p>
<p>Science: 36</p>
<p>The writing score still isn’t in yet, of course, and this was my first time taking it with no real prep work beforehand.</p>
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<li>Thanks to Nspire for creating that link, I used it quite a bit but it never worked but I always had hope lol. Good luck to all with college admissions.</li>
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<p>Composite: 34</p>
<p>English: 36
Math: 30
Reading: 36
Science: 32
Writing: 08</p>
<p>Does anyone know if colleges will penalize an applicant if the essay score is not as good as the composite and subscores?</p>
<p>C:32
E:35
M:29
S:32
R:32</p>
<p>Overall, I’m happy. I improved in each section (compared to April) even though I didn’t study as much. Math is still eh… (But i thought it was easy…I guess I thought wrong) and I’m really surprised about Reading! I thought I failed it! I was expecting like a 26…</p>
<p>Still retaking it in september and shooting for a 34+. :)</p>
<p>Composite: 35
Eng: 35
Math: 34
Reading: 34
Science: 35</p>
<p>First time taking it, so I’m really happy with my scores, although I was hoping to beat this other kid at my school who got a 36. Math is by far my best subject, and I am REALLLLLLYYY surprised/angry I didn’t get a 36 in that…</p>
<p>I didn’t really have any strategies, and I only did two practice tests from the Red Book before the actual thing. For English, I just sped through it, basic grammar stuff. Should come straight to your head if you’re a native speaker.
For Math, I also just went through the problems, no real strategy. Probably made a bunch of silly errors ugh.
I was really nervous for the Reading section, and it was by far my worst in the practices. I have to say I got EXTREMELY lucky, because halfway through I felt “rejuvenated”(?) and just sped through the second half, and fortunately every time I looked at a question and then the text, the answer was right in front of me (I don’t even know how that happened so often). Lucky break.
In science, I skipped the introductions. Basically all you can do in terms of strategy.</p>