<p>Are these scores only for NO writing tests? Or are these scores WITH writing just without the writing score?</p>
<p>with writing but most essays not scored yet.</p>
<p>Wolverine1996 I’m in Ann Arbor!</p>
<p>@Shrapnel: Any strategies in particular for reading? Which ones ultimately helped you raise your score? I’m stuck in the 26-28 zone, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Awesome job to all of you with big scores!</p>
<p>@NSpire: It really depends which section you’re having issues with. I found that the best thing for me was to rush through everything as fast as I could (read the passage in 3-4 minutes), circle everything that seemed relevant, and answer questions in 4-5 minutes. When you’re reading and something seems a little vague, don’t go back and read the paragraph over. The ACT questions don’t usually require a ton of comprehension; it’s the time that destroys people, not the actual questions. I’ve found that the majority of the questions are centered around characters. That sounds extremely obvious, but they rarely ask anything which has to do with setting. Make sure you circle EVERY new name that’s introduced, especially on the prose fiction, and the scientific one (usually has a few scientists with studies). A lot of the stuff you circle may not help you actually answer the questions, but I’ve found it to be perfect for finding stuff in the block of text. Make sure you answer every question per passage in 8 minutes. If you’re in a hurry, skim the questions, make your best guesses and move on. Put a dash on your answer sheet next to the ones you had to guess on or rush through. Always leave the main idea questions for last; the other 8 or so will help bring everything together nicely. </p>
<p>If you allot 8 minutes per passage (between reading and questions) that will give you 3 minutes to go back and check the ones you had to rush through. It may sound like a questionable method, but it really did help me. I finished 3 passages and had to guess on the last 8 or so of my first ACT, and I finished this one and checked everything over with about 5 minutes left. Hopefully this helps, but I’d recommend trying it a bit; most people’s methods don’t work for me, and I’m sure mine don’t necessarily work for them. Oh and I wouldn’t recommend going in and underlining the line reference passages if you do that. I used to, and it was a giant time sink. It helped a lot when I stopped.</p>
<p>By the way, thanks for the early ACT checker. Appreciate all the work you put into it haha.</p>
<p>I got a 33! HOLY ****.
34 E
33 M
30 R
34 S
33 C
I am so happy right now.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>High five! I got a 33 too!!!</p>
<p>E35
M33
R35
S30</p>
<p>Lol, it was my writing score that sucked this time (6).</p>
<p>@Shrapnel: Believe it or not, I’m exactly the same as you are. I’ve tried literally every method I could find, and yet few of them did the trick. Then I gradually discovered the way similar to yours—it really, really worked. (Hey, I wished I had read your post earlier!)</p>
<p>I could still remember how I messed up the April ACT…I forgot to bring a watch, and I heard “5 minutes left!” when I barely finished two passages. Oh yes, finally I ended up with a 17 in Reading (and 24 composite) in April.</p>
<p>To the person that asked about the reading curve the curve appears to be something like this:</p>
<p>0 = 36
-1 = 35
-2/-3 = 34 (I got a 34 with a 17, 18 subscore, but there are people who made a 35 in reading)</p>
<p>Yes! So relieved.</p>
<p>36c
35e
36m
35r
36s</p>
<p>Wow congrats SirHolmes for that perfect score!!! I got a 33 and am aiming for higher in March when the school issues it. Any tips??? It seems like everyone has higher scores than me:(</p>
<p>^^^ apparently not. I got 32… E 34 M 34 R 30 S 30. I was kinda shocked at my math, reading, and science score… If I got 32 on science, I could get 33 as well… I’m taking this again in October. Aiming for 35, this time. Math was pure mistake, since I’ve never gotten anything lower than 35 on practices, and very often 36… Got 36 on R and S a couple times for practice, so I guess I’m gonna target for 34 36 34 34… That’s 34.5=35</p>
<p>Guys im still tested and im in ny what is up with this how much longer do i have to wait</p>
<p>I’m confused. I got a 35 on the reading with 18’s for both of my subscores.</p>
<p>@Shrapnel: Thanks for all of your help bud! I’d love to hear about anything else in particular that helped propel your score. I shall try the circling technique for reading the next time I sit down and do some practice tests! Pretty solid idea, thanks for that. Any ideas for minimizing mistakes for math? Seems like I constantly have a stupid goof or two, haha.</p>
<p>@Nspire, I shared your early score on The student room as well, but still no score because we’re international.</p>
<p>Always worth a shot, Wilson! Ultimately I think they did something funky with the testing id’s this time around. Scores WERE uploaded - there’s no way they’d just pop up for all of us at the stroke of midnight. They had to be there in some form, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>My theory is this: For this ACT cycle, they did not “enable” the testing id’s to generate a token to view the scorecard… I think the scores WERE there and ready to go, but we simply couldn’t access them. Using a fake, totally random testing id yielded the same result as the real testing id until midnight hit (nulls, if you recall).</p>
<p>It’s strange that the testing id’s all worked fine after midnight, almost like the flip of a switch. There’s no way they could’ve uploaded scores that ungodly fast - they had to be sitting in there. But like I said, our testing id’s were NOT generating the one-time-use token to view the tests/scorecard pdf’s.</p>
<p>Strange.</p>
<p>Haha math is a little bit harder for me to give advice on. My math score was lower than it should have been the first time because I didn’t finish; I hadn’t taken pre-calc yet (took it over the summer so I could take calculus this year) and one of the questions had a bunch of trig. So I was just questioning what the hell a cotangent function was for a solid 4 or 5 minutes hah.</p>
<p>I guess my best advice would be pacing. I always try to finish the first 40 questions in 30 minutes. I rush through everything super fast, and put a dash next to ones that I think there’s an extremely small possibility that I missed (maybe something with a sketchy trick to it), and a circle next to the ones I have no idea how to do, or I feel like there’s actual a good chance I got it wrong. It allows me to do the questions at the end more carefully, but also gives me about 5 minutes at the end to check my answers. I actually ran out of time on the last one though, and guessed on about 4 of them at the end. I thought the last ten questions or so were pretty awful. If you don’t know how to do a problem, circle it and come back. Sometimes when there’s a weird question and I go away from it for a few minutes, it just sort of clicks when I come back.</p>
<p>Gotta love the stupid mistakes though! Math is my strongest subject in school and it’s just incredibly ironic that my reading score was higher than it.</p>