The ACT

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Well,to start off I have had no previous experience with the ACT. And since the the school is forcing everyone to take the Pre-Act this Wednesday... I decided to take some practice tests.</p>

<p>A coupe of my observations
-since their is no penalty for wrong answers... I should answer every question...
-Reading any of the words in the science section is worthless... just look at the questions, and graphs, or observations they want you to look at
-The reading section just sucks... they give you 35 minutes for you answer 40 questions.. *** ( I can never really seem to finish the fourth section - reading it/answering questions in time) (this has never happened to me before) ( I am a slow reader but still!)</p>

<p>ANY TIPS FOR THIS PROBLEM^ ????</p>

<p>OR COULD YOU GIVE ME ANY TIPS IN GENERAL?</p>

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<p>Go to the ACT forum on here. All of your questions can be answered, and already have been answered.</p>

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<p>There’s a Pre-ACT?</p>

<p>Yeah, and go to ACT forum.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah it’s called the planned test. Sophomores are taking it at my school this Wednesday while we seniors have no school (haha suckers).</p>

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<p>Hm, well . . . I took the ACT in April and I scored a 28 mostly because I scored 33 on the reading section. Reading was my strong point. (25M, 25S, 33R, 29E)</p>

<p>Read EACH passage FULLY. I don’t consider myself a fast reader (somewhat slow, in fact) but I managed to read through ALL of the passages and answer all of the questions, leaving like 12 minutes to spare. (and no, I’m not some freakish private school kid either–in fact, when I took the test I hadn’t been to school in over a year). </p>

<p>As everyone has probably already told you, if a question doesn’t make sense or if you don’t know the answer after reading it 2 or 3x, circle it and skip it, and come back. I had to do this probably 5x in the reading section, but I was able to get back to them. </p>

<p>And if you run out of time like I did on the science section (I ran out with TWELVE questions left!! WTH?!), when your teacher says you’ve got 5 mins left, race through and just mark random bubbles. Somehow, I still managed to get a 25 on the science section this way. And Science was my WORST subject from the two practice tests I took–I never scored higher than 21 :-/ (yet when I took the test you’re taking back when I was enrolled in HS, it was my best subject!)</p>

<p>I think I just had a really lucky day that day hahaha, but anyway, I hope those suggestions helped because that is what I did!</p>