<p>I wanna increase my English + reading scores, are there any suggestions besides practicing on books?</p>
<p>The best way to get better at english? Study grammar rules that they explicitly state will be on the test. You can find this kind of review in different books (i.e. Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc...). And apply that knowledge by doing many many english practice tests. With the ACT practice really does make perfect. I went from a 28 to a 33 composite.</p>
<p>Thats very encouraging astrife...I'm going to master as much as I can for the ACT this week b4 saturday. Getting timing down for Reading/Sci .. avoiding careless mistakes on Math and English. Did you use non-official tests too? If so which ones?</p>
<p>Well I was lucky... My state offered an ACT prep course for free and they had lots of tests we could take. I also supplemented those tests with Kaplan tests. All the material I studied was from Kaplan's book. For math study those problems you keep seeing over and over again on the practice tests. And the main thing with the math is you have to develop a sense of when you are spending too much time on a problem and getting nowhere. I took one ACT test where I was so concerned about a few problems that I ran out of time with half my bubbles blank b/c I circled all my answers in book first then transfer. At break on that test I told them to void my scores and walked out. That was a sad day. I took it a couple months later though, and skipped problems I thought looked like time wasters. Easy questions count just as much as hard ones. You can miss like 10 questions on math section and still get like a 30, so don't sweat it too much b/c you never know what the curve will be.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice...but I'll have to disagree w/ the 10 wrong/blank and still getting a 30...the most i've seen was 32-33..which is really generous and that was probably a really good curve. But that isn't good enough for me because Math is my strong point so I'm shooting for a 34-35...same w/ english - Science and Reading are a different story.</p>