<p>Hey guys, I've been taking a practice ACT from the Princeton Review 1296 ACT Q's everyday from last week (and intend on doing it till april 9th) and I've been consistently scoring above 30s on all my subject tests (I haven't taken them in whole yet b/c I need to study for school...) but I noticed that I usually run out of time for my Reading and Science Tests... </p>
<p>Today I took a Reading Test and I scored a 35 on it.. but I went like 10mins over time.. Is there anyway to still consistently score in that range but within the time limit? </p>
<p>Is it b/c I'm a slow reader? or is it b/c my approach to answering the questions is wrong ( I use the Princeton Review approach where you look at the questions first..)</p>
<p>Oh mighty [smart] people of College Confidential, lend me your guidance! </p>
<p>I don’t know if this will help you, but something that helped me was reading the questions first and underlining the important lines in the passage. Then when I was reading, I could focus on the underlined words and quickly skim everything else. Worked for me and helped me save time.</p>
<p>^I did a similar technique where I underlined maybe one sentence per paragraph that I thought was probably going to be asked or something that gave the gist of the paragraph.</p>
<p>I don’t read any of the readings for Reading or Science. I go straight to the questions then look back to find the information. I’ve never missed a reading question with this method, and it’s gotten me a 31 and then a 35 on Science.</p>
<p>How would you do the questions about the whole passage then? I dunno I tried out a bunch of methods and came to the conclusion that I’m a freeekin slow reader. Any tips to get me reading faster?</p>
<p>hmm I guess I’ll try your trick. I mean the questions are definitely not the problem. It’s more of beating the clock thing for me :P</p>