<p>Oh my God... I'm sitting at my computer breezing through sample tests of this thing and it's ****<em>ing easy... even the math section. I should have taken this godd</em>mn thing!</p>
<p>Take the ACT!!!</p>
<p>The SAT I math section was one of the easiest tests I've ever taken in my life...</p>
<p>Critical Reading and Writing... thats a whole different story...</p>
<p>agreed! honestly, i believe it's a good investment if you take both if you can, because you have that great possibility of doing extraordinarily better on one of them. Point of personal reference: I took the ACT and my percentage ranking went up twenty points compared to the SAT! which let me tell, is really cool and really relieving</p>
<p>I hear the ACT is better suited for right-brained, analytical, humanities-oriented types and the SAT is better suited for left-brained, logical types.</p>
<p>I think some people do better on the ACT because...</p>
<p>there is no vocabulary....</p>
<p>science offers a way for sciencey kids to score well...</p>
<p>reading offers a way for reading kids to score well..</p>
<p>english test actual grammer instead of how well you can spot a hidden error</p>
<p>in real life you rewrite something not sit there and figure it out so it sounds complex</p>
<p>I think ACT math is has some slightly harder problems than sat tho</p>
<p>reading + writing on the SAT is really about knowing what to look for not what u know, same can be said of the ACT reading tho</p>
<p>I did much better on the ACT - I think part of my problem with the SAT is that I tend to overthink the answers and their tricky answer options make me overanalyze everything, while the ACT is more straightforward and I can just see the answer. Also I did a lot better on the grammar portion because it's not looking for something in the midst of an already bad sentence.</p>
<p>bingo, thats why the SAT writing is a joke</p>
<p>but the reading is fairly accurate, but how does knowing words help u do well in college, unless u r a english major.. I think vocab( which test ur interest in words or quality of education...private or public) should go in writing, honestly, since reading is Reasoning. Other than that I think SAT reading and ACT reading are sorta similar, and accurate. I scored 630 on my sat CR and 31 and 30 on ACT so that is a 680-700 on sat, and I know i missed at least 5 vocabs, so after that recalculation they match</p>
<p>I definately liked the ACT better. The format, types of questions, the sections, everything. In my opinion, it was so much easier than the SAT. Like willgomez, said a few posts up, I'm definately a right brain type person, so it was much easier to me. Even the math seemed easier, because it was applications that we had done in class, unlike the SAT, I don't know where they get some of their math problems from.</p>
<p>hmm this is wierd, does anyone do better on the SAT than ACT or is this the reason that colleges prefer the SAT because not as many high quality students take the ACT otherwise idk why we would do better</p>
<p>i dunno the ACT is available but it seems like not many people are interested in taking it, it's just not as popular of a test, like everyone knows what a good SAT score is, not too many know too much about the ACT though</p>
<p>It seems like in my area it's SAT SAT SAT all day everyday. No one talks about the ACT, and I think that this worked to my advantage. I felt that the ACT was a virtually stress-free test, because of its relative obscurity and the fact that it's score choice. I was able to relax and not overanalyize things like I always did on SAT-type tests (maybe that's due to the type of questions on the ACT, I don't know). I highly recommend that if you have the means, at least take each of the tests once, preferrably twice. If represented on a 2400 scale, my ACT score was about 250 points higher than any of my PSAT's (Hope that made sense). </p>
<p>"I hear the ACT is better suited for right-brained, analytical, humanities-oriented types and the SAT is better suited for left-brained, logical types."</p>
<p>This quote is dead-on for me. I'm extremely analytical, and as you can see I did much better on the ACT. Was this true for anyone else?</p>
<p>i did overwhelmingly better on the act, but i am a left-brained person</p>
<p>I did better on ACT, and I'm left-brained logical.</p>
<p>Not true. I am very left brained but I breezed the act :D</p>
<p>you'll also finish the ACT quicker, about one hour earlier which makes a difference :)</p>
<p>I know. I finished in 20 minutes for writing.</p>
<p>32 :P</p>
<p>All you left-brainers who did well on the ACT... are you saying that you did well or that it felt significantly easier than the SAT? Which test did you get a better verbal score in?</p>
<p>significantly easier.</p>
<p>32 writing
32 reading (for act)</p>
<p>600 writing
620 crit. read (sat)</p>
<p>sat I was in the 76th percentil... act i was in 97th</p>
<p>interesting... well that was just something I heard from my college counselor, no idea if its generally true on average. But he did discourage me from taking the ACT for that reason...</p>
<p>It seems like down here in Dallas there has been a shift in the winds of standardized testing. EVERYONE takes the SAT...but it seems like more and more people are taking both the SAT and ACT to see which they do better on. Maybe it's because I told them all too. Sadly, most of my friends received mediocre scores on both. But for me...</p>
<p>1980 vs. 33</p>
<p>How can that be beat.</p>