<p>I'm just curious about how everyone here approaches the ACT to ensure completion on time.</p>
<p>I always hear friends complaining about how they never got to finish, but is it really that difficult? With almost a minute per question, I don't understand what is so difficult. I've been working on practice tests untimed, but I really haven't had the time to sit down and do a full run through. How do you use your test time efficiently?</p>
<p>I think that the general consensuses is that time seems to go by quicker when you are taking the actual ACT test, as opposed to a practice test. Maybe it's because people “freak” when they get in the testing environment, or maybe it's because they get a lazy Proctor who doesn't give a crap (I was once jipped seven minutes on the English test because we got a late start). In any case, you need to start practicing with time restraints, and docking five minutes off each test may not be a bad idea, since you are never guaranteed the exact amount of time that the ACT says you will get, anyway. </p>
<p>Having the Proctor use a stopwatch would help with fairness, but the ACT really isn’t about fairness (e.g., people with the luxury of taking the test without time restrains don’t have their tests flagged).</p>
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<p>at least the 7 minutes was taken off the english and not science or reading...peolpe usually finish english with spare time (from who i've talked to about it)</p>
<p>if the 7 minutes came off the science section that would have been real ********</p>
<p>English is easy to finish. I just took a practice under timed conditions and finished 20 minutes early. On the real test i finished about 10 minutes early.</p>
<p>Math..........eh not bad. 1 minute per question, half the questions take 10 seconds or so. </p>
<p>Reading.......I finish just on time</p>
<p>Science....on practice i finished with 5 minutes to spare. On the last OCT test i was destroyed. U just need to know that there are 7 sections. AKA 5 minutes per section.</p>
<p>Yea i think science in October kicked a lot of ppl's *ss. Mine included :-]. But like kevinscool said, just remember that you have 5 minutes per section (there's 7 sections) and you really can't afford to spend more time then that on a section. Practice with 30 minutes and you should be fine for it. Good Luck</p>
<p>don't read any of the science information before you start. just answer all the questions that tell you to look at a specific figures/tables/etc. after you do those (about half), you will have a pretty good understanding of what's going on, and you can skim through the reading and find the parts that actually help answering the other questions. a lot of the info they give you is worthless.</p>
<p>haha ya i wish i had knew that there were 7 sections before hand.</p>
<p>WHAT REALLY TICKS ME OFF is the lack of a digital clock. I wish i had brought a digital watch. When it's close to ending time, you dont know EXACTLY how much time you have left. 2 minutes? 30 seconds? 1 minute?</p>
<p>Bring a digital watch, it'll be a life saver.</p>