Tips on improving ACT reading and science timing

<p>Not to sound arrogant or anything but I really don't find the questions very hard. My problem is that I usually end up rushing in the end and very rarely am able to finish the reading or science on practice tests in the time allotted. Any tips on improvement?</p>

<p>Bumping for help</p>

<p>For reading, you’ll really have to formulate your own strategy. A lot of people, however, find it helpful to not read the passage and just to look at the questions and the lines that they reference within the story to answer the questions.</p>

<p>For science, I never look at the graphs. I just immediately start reading the questions and only look at the graphs that they want me to look at for that one question. Reading all of the background information and graphs before reading any of the questions is just a big waste of time.</p>

<p>I tried using that strategy for reading but I was not confident in my answers at all and it showed in the practice scores. Ughh</p>

<p>Then make a different strategy. Have you tried speed reading through the passages and then immediately going over to the questions?</p>

<p>You mean like skimming? If so, no. I could try that.</p>

<p>On the science part: I improved from a 28 to a 35 by basically practicing (in Princeton Review Book) and understanding correlations within the graphs and tables. Skip through the section and do the labs/ experiments that have questions with lots of numbers first. In the fighting scientists portion, look over the questions first and then read each argument individually.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>