<p>Okay guys, so my score the first time around, I didn't study or anything I just went in blind. I'm a senior in high school and my scores were as follows:</p>
<p>Realizing my weaknesses being math and science, I ordered the PR math and science review and the official act red book.</p>
<p>I need help with scheduling study times and what kind of studying strategies you guys think would help, I'm aiming for at least a 28 since that was my highest sub score. Thanks guys!</p>
<p>Wait you’re a senior and you’re taking the ACT in February? Why? If it’s for college, then times up. </p>
<p>I suggest using weekends to study. Read and review the material from the prep books. After you do that then take a practice test from the red book. Look over your mistakes and see if there’s a pattern in the errors you made. If so use the prep books to help you correct those mistakes and end the pattern. Take another practice test and continue the cycle until you feel comfortable, or run out of red book practice tests lol.</p>
<p>I’m going to college in the fall, so my deadline is around May as far as I’m aware… I’m taking the summer off. Are you sure its too late? This would be awesome to know…</p>
<p>I am in senior in high school also taking it in February, first and last time taking it, since most colleges I applied to have rolling admissions which usually end from march to June. Any tips/suggestions for studying??</p>
<p>Why are you shooting for a 28, Itzbranman? Just curious where you got that number from. To increase your Math score 10 points is going to be a difficult feat, and my thoughts would be that you would need some outside assistance to do so.</p>
<p>Preply, it was his first time taking the test. I’m sure he can increase his goal if he studied well for it.
I can help you all except for science (got a 27 unfortunately). But for M: 33, E: 33 R: 35 W + Essay: 33 and 11. Composite: 32. Ugh stupid science.</p>
<p>It was the first time I took it and mos possibly the last time if I decide not to raise my science score (god i’m so weak in science DX)</p>
<p>For math: I just looked over the review problems and solved a few at a time before I moved on to the next concept. After reviewing the types of problems, I took three math sections from red book to practice. First time I missed 3, after that it went all the way downhill mostly making stupid mistakes so I decided not to worry about it but just to make sure I double check so i don’t make those types of mistakes again. (I’m weak in math too. I was actually surprised with my math score given the circumstances while testing)</p>
<p>English: If you studied for the SAT Writing, it would hugely benefit your test taking for this section since it’s basically the same format except more direct. (Personally I felt like the SAT writing was easier but my score wasn’t that all good). If not, I suggest you take tips from the SAT Writing and learn the common errors of the SAT because it would tremendously help you! And also I had barron’s 36 to help me for writing. I just reviewed the writing section once because after studying for the SAT W, it was pretty easy.</p>
<p>Reading: I took the SAT English Lit score after taking the class for two months and scored pretty well. If you studied for SAT English Lit before, it would help greatly. If not SAT Critical reading is also pretty helpful. If not, I would take the time to read two books (one challenging and one more colloquial and comprehensive) and annotate for meaning and summary. It would definitely help with your critical reading scores.</p>
<p>I thought the deadline for the ACT/SAT for seniors was December? Guess not it seems.</p>
<p>Math: drill practice questions. lots of them. every day. I am not kidding. the more often you see the problems and know how to solve them (different numbers, same concepts), the faster you will be at solving them. If it becomes clear that there are certain problems tripping you up, learn the concepts from whichever book you’re using and practice lots of problems made up of those concepts. And learn to be fast with a calculator. But sometimes, the answer can be calculated faster mentally so learn to distinguish those problems.</p>
<p>English: I’m not really sure how you could practice this. But assuming you are a native English speaker, what helped me a lot was reading the sentences out loud in my head to catch the mistakes, pausing at the commas and what not. For some of the smaller grammar issues thats just nit-picky, I suggest using a book and going through the problems and rules to understand.</p>
<p>Reading: Really up to you. Either you work faster reading the passages thoroughly first and then answering the questions or visa versa. For me, the first route was faster. Just keep in mind that you only have about 8 minutes for each passage and practice with only that amount of time for each passage. Then you know where you are approximately. Choose the types of passages that you’d have a harder time with as well. And when you get good at those, slowly decrease your time limit so you can go faster (because pressure during the tests always makes time go faster)</p>
<p>Science: Its all basically graph analysis. Know some basic concepts and know how to read trends on graphs. There will be a few questions asking you information from the passages but not too many of them. Focus on the graph questions first and then on the passages.</p>
<p>If you do have time to study, good luck. I think you’ll do fine with some practice. :)</p>
<p>@itzbranman - I (and many others) believe you can improve your score assuming what you said is true. Just be prepared to work hard consistently and you will get the results.</p>
<p>If you slack off you might end up hurting yourself.</p>