<p>Hi Everyone-
I'm going to be a junior and will be taking the ACT in September (whoo..)
Anyways, I have been taking practice test and finally realized that my number one biggest issue is TIME. I always run out and have at least 10-15 questions left per section.
Is there any way to improve this? Most specifically, I have trouble finishing the math and science sections.
Gracias!</p>
<p>Well, really on math you are just going to have to get less careful about your answers (or get faster at doing the problems). On science, you should look around this forum, there’s some good advice here.</p>
<p>Science is pretty deathly. Skip the text and read directly to the questions.</p>
<p>Math, just do more math practice until you feel that you can skim through atleast the first 30 questions without feeling like you might have made a mistake.</p>
<p>Science - no need to actually read the passages. the actual “background” information behind the lab isn’t necessary. it might be just extraneous stuff that are thrown in to eat your time. merely just look at the question, and then find the appropriate answer. </p>
<p>Math - Mm … I have never heard this one. What I would do is see what kind of problems are eating my time. Is it the easier algebra problems or those law of sine and cosine ones? If you can do that, you should just narrow your focus onto that. Some tricks I have on some silly ones like the law of sine and cosine is just actually punch the whole thing into my calculator and see which answer comes out to be the closest. a lot of times just doing the actual law of cosine is too much work (in my opinion since i haven’t taken trig in 2-3 years).</p>
<p>Hope that helped!</p>
<p>for math…do what amaster008 said and figure out what type of problems are giving you the most trouble. practice those types of questions and attempt to get through the first 35-40 questions with 30 minutes remaining. the last few will definitely eat time so be sure you pace yourself for that</p>
<p>as for science, I recommend skipping directly to the questions and then peek at the graphs. this way, you have some idea of what you’re looking for in the jumble of information they throw at you instead of reading through everything before looking at the questions</p>
<p>for science i read everything and got a 36.
but that was because i freaked out during the exam. i probably overread the science questions, so i would recommend skipping directly to the questions.</p>
<p>for math, practice makes perfect. learn the templates of the problems.</p>
<p>“for science i read everything and got a 36.”</p>
<p>For most people, reading everything is not a possibility, so there is no “overreading” for them.</p>