<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>The ACT testing date is in 4 days, and I don't know anything about the test. I have taken the SAT though. ( I scored a 2130 on it.) I was wondering if I could study for the ACT in 4 days, considering I did spend months preparing for SAT. Any correlation at all between the two? I don't know much about the ACT, so sorry if I come across as ignorant.</p>
<p>it’s in 6 days… I also don’t know much about the test but I just took a practice test and basically most of the SAT math is in the ACT and I think english and reading is also pretty much very alike.
I definitely know that since you are very well prepared for the SAT (congrats on the 2130!) you will be more than halfway ready for the ACT, the questions on the ACT are usually easier (at least I thought so), the only bad thing is that your time needs to be managed way more than on the SAT (on the december SAT I finished every single math section and was able to check it like 3 times! On this practice test that I took I used every single minute of the hour that it takes to complete the ACT section).</p>
<p>Btw, you should know that I just made up this opinion right now after taking the ACT (also I took the SAT twice) so I also don’t have a lot of insight in the ACT.</p>
<p>Edit: lol sorry I get now what you mean ‘4 days’ 
to prepare.</p>
<p>Compared to SAT Math, Act Math is much more advanced. Although it is straightforward, it 's not like the SAT where they have some trick questions.</p>
<p>The science on the ACT is pretty much interpreting graphs, analyzing the data and at times extrapolating data by looking at trends. And some questions are comparing 2 theory’s or point of views.</p>
<p>If you were well prepared for SAT writing, ACT English would not be tough for you. It is basically fixing grammatical errors like parallelism, comma splice, subject verb agreement, and modifiers. Besides the grammar, they test you on rhetorical skills which include order of sentences in the passage, if this sentence should be deleted and such.</p>
<p>For the reading, there are 4 passages in 35mins, almost each 800 words each and 10 questions each. TIME IS A MAJOR FACTOR in this section. And in the ACT Reading Make sure you can back your answers from the passage. There is not much analyzing to do. It is pretty straightforward too. The answers are literally stated in the passage you just have look for them. Although each passage has 1 or 2 purpose questions at the beggining, so skip them and do them at the end. A technique alot of people use is first go the questions and find the answer to the questions which refer to line’s (like what does this word mean) and after you are done with these questions you have an idea of the whole passage to answer the rest of the questions</p>
<p>aa2011, does the ACT have breaks like the SAT? If so, how often? For the SAT I had about 3 breaks…</p>
<p>The ACT is over two hours, so I assume there is at least one break to go to the bathroom etc.</p>
<p>There is a break after the first two sections. So the stress levels on this test are kind of high, for which you have to be prepared for.</p>
<p>All right. So it is possible? I’ll take a practice test and what happens.
Best of luck to you too Zaphira!</p>
<p>Thanks aa2011, MikeSkyler.</p>
<p>Obviously, there are a lot of similarities between the ACT and SAT so certainly prepping for one benefits the others. </p>
<p>Personally, I prepped much more for the SAT, but did better on the ACT. I had limited prep for the ACT - just figuring the directions and doing several practice tests.</p>