Terrible ACT Score?

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<p>I got a 29.. Again.</p>

<p>April Test -> E:30,M:34,R:22,S:30 = C:29
June Test -> E:30,M:33,R:20;S:31 = C:29</p>

<p>How the heck can I improve?</p>

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<p>lots of tests lots…
I used march2success.com tests, cause I find em really challenging and I prepped with those on english and reading
and looo
last year;
englsih: 29, reading 30
this year;
english: 34, reading 36</p>

<p>I feel it might be because reading was easier this time but march2success seriously helped me out a lot by giving me harder material</p>

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<p>For starters, improve the reading score. Try reading more. Timing is invaluable in that section, so practice tests may help you</p>

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<p>Dude that is not terrible the average is 21… and 29 is WAY higher than that. a 29 is 93 percentile… I got a 28 and I am super happy because it is 91 percentile. I got a 23 the last time. But it is possible for you to do better, I see that you have a terrible reading score. In april I got a 21 in reading… This time i got a 27 in reading. What I did is spend 4 minutes reading the passage and writing 2 to 3 words every paragraph to help jog my memory of what was in the paragraph. Then I spent 4 minutes answering the questions. My reading score probably could have been 30+ but I’ve never been the fast kind of reader… With this method I did better, but I still had about half a passage that I had to guess on because I didn’t have enough time. If your a fast reader though then no problems for you. Plus come on man, look at most of the kids on this site, they usually have 30 plus and are going to ivys… a 29 is good enough… But i do advise you to take it again because you can definitely bring that reading up.</p>

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<p>ya buy what if I’m black</p>

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<p>“ya buy what if I’m black” I did not understand that at all… ? I don’t know what you mean by that, but if you’re black and scored a 29 isn’t that even better for you… don’t black people with good scores get more advantages?</p>

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<p>Yeah but I feel like I’m failing. I’m getting at least 30 in every section, but 10 points LOWER in reading?</p>

<p>Even my friends who do worse than me in everything beat me in reading! (Even if its 24/25, that would be very helpful to me).</p>

<p>I spent about two whole months practicing speed reading newyork times articles… Now I feel like I did all of that for NOTHING…!</p>

<p>When I read the ACT passages, I end up feeling like I only understanding one section (Social Science/2nd passage)…</p>

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<p>I got a 31 in the reading section. Usually two methods work best for me:

  1. Read the passage thoroughly and spend about 2-4 minutes doing that. Then answer the questions and refer back to the passage if you don’t remember something. Finish each passage and questions in about 8 minutes so you can come back to the questions you had trouble on.
  2. Skim each passage if you don’t have time to finish reading the whole passage and then answer the questions. Or you can try reading half the passage, and then answering the questions that belong to that part, and then reading the other half, so that everything will be more fresh in your mind.
    You really don’t need to understand the details, just make sure you get the big idea of the passage, and make sure you have enough time to answer ALL of the questions. Good luck!</p>