Hey guys! I recently took the September ACT and my score only improved from a 28 to a 29 after hours and hours of studying. Was wondering if you have any suggestions to help before I take the October ACT
ACT 1
E: 32
M:29
R:25
S:26
C:28
ACT 2
E:28
M:33
R:29
S:27
Omg exactly in the same boat! Got a 28 the first time, then got a 29 on the September test but my reading is bringing my whole composite down… On my first test I got a 27 on English but brought it up to a 34. Here’s what I did:
Basically if you tend to have extra time for English this is the best way. Go through the passage and answer all the mechanical questions first. Skip all the rhetoric questions in that passage and then once you’re done with the mechanical questions, go back and read the whole passage. One you do that it’s much easier to answer rhetoric questions since doing mechanical and rhetoric questions and the same time will only confuse you more.
Yeah… I can only really help you on English cause that’s where I found a strategy that worked for me! Hope it works!
If anyone has any tips of how to improve on the reading section that’d be great. I’m so confused in terms of strategy how to go about it and since the reading section is changing how are we supposed to prepare for it?
@Sddsy63 thanks for the advice. The mechanical questons are not the ones that are hurting my score m. The rhetoric questions are the ones that are hurting my score. However, the last two times that I took the ACT English has been my highest score.
I went from a 29 in April to a 32 in September
I personally used the red book, which I think helped a lot
@AddyB123 This will be my last time taking the ACT so I am really hoping for a 31 or 32. I’m looking to apply to notre dame and Vanderbilt with a 4.0 unweighted GPA but I need to boost my ACT score.
We really improved my sons score - from a 29 to a 32 - by going through tips and hints in the Barron’s 36 book (Great section on grammar) and doing practice. We looked for patterns in the questions he missed and addressed those. We found English and Math are the easiest to improve since they are more content related. Best of luck!
Don’t even worry man! A 29 is good enough for me 
It seems like my scores in science and reading are hard to bring up
@sgallagher23 HOW WAS IT?
@Sddsy63
E: 35
M: 31
R: 29
S: 25
C: 30
If I can just raise my reading and science scores then I will be able to reach my goal score of 32
@sgallagher23 NICE! Did my strategy for english help or did you use something else? I took the October ACT too and got a 35 on science…it sort of helps if you have a science background (I’ve taken a majority of the honors/AP science classes at my school) but if you don’t, just know that ALL DATA MEANS SOMETHING. Basically what that means is that all the numbers and the patterns and the graphs translate into… something. All you need to do is find how that data fits in the experiment. What I do is for the passages that I understand (anything with chemistry/biology, at least for me) I skip that text before the graphs. BUT that text is really useful if you don’t know what the hell the passage is talking about lol like for plant experiments which I’m always clueless on, reading the those brief descriptions will tell you what the data means in the experiment, and it may also answer some of the questions directly. Just notice patterns and how all the data relates to each other, and hopefully you will be fine. I’m not sure if I helped… maybe you already know this but this was just my rationale for the science section this time around. Good luck!