<p>Hii guys,
I'm taking the SAT this saturday and the ACT next saturday. So far, I found the ACT to be super mucho easier. ^__^</p>
<p>I was wondering if you guys could tell me how I should prepare for the ACT. So far I've only done the Princeton 2006 (or was it 2007 o.o;;) prep book for the ACT.<br>
I've gotten (from the 2 tests)</p>
<p>Math 36/36
English 30/35 (Big improvement after I used this book XD)
Science 34/35
Reading 29/32</p>
<p>What would be the most efficient way of studying for this test? =/
I have the Real ACT test booklet.. (the red colored one XD)
This probably would help (not that I have a choice of using it or not). </p>
<p>I've been super studying for the Critical Reading for the SAT, so that should help my reading score. </p>
<p>Does anyone know if the Princeton book's tests is easier or more difficult relative to the real exam?</p>
<p>I want to score around a 35-36. Any help available would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Oh and another thing, are there any super weird questions on the ACT? Like idioms, or just some random list that you would have to memorize. It feels like the ACT creaters are super nicer and don't try to trick you ^__^;;</p>
<p>With practice scores like that, I think you already have it down.. I can give you some tips, though. The ACT is pretty straightforward, it's just the timing that kills. Make sure you time yourself on each of those practice tests so you get used to the pace.
I don't know what people do to get scores of 35/36. Practice? ..luck? Anyway, I've borrowed and used several other older practice books besides Princeton, and some of them have other approaches. They recommend learning alot of things outside of the ACT such as:
*The Merriam Webster ACT prep book contained Vocab. Lists. ACT doesn't test vocab, though, and hasn't used any complicated vocab in my experience.
*The MR book also contained a general science review/overview over chem, bio, physics, etc. (the last ACT had two questions that could not be answered by referring to the graphs/passage. It caught alot of us off-guard: one of them was balancing elements and the other had something to do with a certain part of a cell)
* "ACT Success 2004" suggested memorizing the directions--but I think that's crazy
*Cliffs ACT Book had a helpful panic tactic.. if you're low on time on the reading section, skim through the questions and hit all the ones with line references/word defs. Though you'd probably have to do better than that for a 36..</p>
<p>Here are just a few things I do, from experience
* during the science section, I skip the entire passage and hit the questions. Much of the time you'll be able to complete a section without ever glancing at the passage.
* don't bother with the multiple passes ("triage" from PR) it just wastes time flipping pages. Eliminate and guess and only come back if you have the time.
* do long problems in the calculator to avoid carelessness.
* If you're as careless as me, it's alot better to double check during your spare time inhte math section, rather than pondering over the problems you skipped
People have also suggested a read throughThe</a> Elements of Style for English. There's also extra (untimed) practice at <a href="http://www.number2.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.number2.com</a>
And every book tells you this a million times over but dont leave blanks!! good luck</p>
<p>vc89 do you mind explaining more on the reading passage?<br>
so you:
1. go stright to question with specific lines
2. read the specific lines</p>
<p>Then what? do you scan the rest of the passage? PR said something about underlining key words, then paraphrasing it. I usually can't remember 5 key words to underline, and a lot of the time there aren't any key words. What should i do?</p>
<p>Woow that's a lot of help thanks ^__^.
I figured that Science was quite time killing... Luckily for me I already took all of the AP Sciences and got 4's and 5's on them.<br>
And question >.<;; what's MR for the science? I don't think I"ll need it, but i'll check it out anyway.
Another thing about the part of the cell. Are they allowed to do that o.o;;. Because if there were 2 questions that couldn't be answered.. then wouldn't there be a curve >.<;;.
But I'll go check out the Elements of Style thing. The writing from SAT should super help me a lot. (Well... at least studying it for the ACT helped my SAT scores. from -15 to -4ish XD )
Oh and can I please get the average curves of how many you can miss on each section to get a 35 or 36?<br>
Thanks again =)</p>
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vc89 do you mind explaining more on the reading passage?
so you:
1. go stright to question with specific lines
2. read the specific lines
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you only want to do this if you're running low and have more than one passage left to complete. (for example the proctor calls 3 minutes and you've just started on the second to last passage) Otherwise.. just do it as you normally would. I dont do the whole underlining thing but I do take a quick glance at the Qs before starting. People read differently, so the best way is the way that works for you</p>
<p>The merriam webs. book I used was an old one. I borrowed it from the library so I don't have it with me anymore, sorry. It wasn't very good anyway. You don't really need to know any science to do Act science. It's almost always graphs and maybe one or two "fighting scientists" passages. I don't know why Act put specific questions in last time. If you search for posts around Oct 28 you'll probably find a few threads on it.</p>
<p>mmm, I want more tests =( . MORE TESTS. WAHHH >.<;;. </p>
<p>Oh by the way, I have this one pdf file that has a past test on it from some site >.>;; I forget where. I was wondering if that was the same one that was offered on the ACT site.</p>