<p>For anyone who has taken practice ACTs in a prep book or anything, how well did those scores match up with your scores on the real ACT? Were they about the same?</p>
<p>I've got one of those prep books, and averaged around 33-34 after taking a few practice tests. Can I expect the same scores when I take the ACT for real in April?</p>
<p>ive heard that the practice tests in the Real ACT book are most accurate in predicting your actual score. if for no other reason, it's because they are actual ACT tests from past years.</p>
<p>i'll let you know in april how accurate they are for me</p>
<p>@tbolts856: I took two practice ACT tests in actual testing environments (i.e. timed, administered by faculty, etc.) before I took the real one in May. My first test was a composite of 30, my second a 31, and my actual score was a 29. The difficulty of the sections didn’t seem to be related to whether I was taking a real test or a practice. It varied just based on the version of the test which I was given. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>I was wondering if the ACT is hard to study in also to pass as a good score would u know…</p>
<p>The ACT is pretty simple to study for:
the english is punctuation, flow, grammar, organization etc.
thereading is comprehension and analysis.
the math hardly goes up to basic trig
and the science is mainly interpretation and analysis of data</p>
<p>I would say it is not too hard to get a good score (high 20s), but challenging to get an outstanding score (32+). Get a review book and study it during the weeks before the exam. I found the Barron’s book to be very helpful, even though the practice tests are harder than the actual test.</p>