<p>I am taking the ACT in April do you think I can get up to a 30?</p>
<p>Here are my current scores:</p>
<p>English 31
Critical Reading 31
Science 28
Math 24</p>
<p>Yes, you probably can. I posted it elsewhere, but here is how my son prepared and how his scores changed as he took the practice tests:</p>
<p>t I bought two books: the red REAL ACT booklet and the Barrons 36 book. </p>
<p>The first week he took 1 of the practice tests out of the real ACT book. One test a day: math, reading, English, Science and writing. I like spreading it out as it only adds 25 minutes to his regular school day. He got a Engl. 31, Math 27, Reading 29, Science 27. His composite was 28. He looked at what he missed and WHY he missed it.</p>
<p>Over the next month he did a subject a week: He read through the English section in the Barrons ACT 36 book. He did the exercises in the book. He took a practice test in that subject in the REAL ACT book and tried to understand WHY he missed what he missed. Would anything in the Barrons book have helped him with what he missed? The scores from that test that he took over that month were:English 32, Math 30, Reading 32, and science 26. Composite 30. </p>
<p>Then we had one week left until the exam. Once again he took a test over that week. HOWEVER, we discovered these cool science videos online so instead of doing the science test he watched these videos ( since as you can see that is the subject where he didn’t improve) [ACT</a> Test Prep - Science - YouTube](<a href=“ACT Test Prep - Science - YouTube”>ACT Test Prep - Science - YouTube)</p>
<p>I really wish we had found these earlier so he could have incorporated them into that week he spent on science prep. He didn’t make it all the way through the videos. His scores for that test were:
English 32, Math 30, and Reading 34.</p>
<p>I also wish we had been better about practicing the essays. He only did those 3. I should have had him practice several each week. But he had writing in his other “real” classes and I didn’t want to take away from that. Until the SAT this March I am making the writing his writing for English. </p>
<p>So he took the ACT in December and these were his scores:English 35, Reading 34, Math 34 and science 31. His composite was 34. His writing score was 7.</p>
<p>It looks like you need more practice on the math section, so I would really concentrate on that area. I would spend the majority of time on that.</p>