<p>Hey, I'm retaking the ACT tomorrow and I have been pondering a method on how to fill in my scantron. I'm always afraid that if I change my answer later, the machine will automatically mark it incorrect because my pencil didn't erase my previous answer well enough. Does anyone think it would be a good idea for me to very lightly fill in my answers, and only mark them harder when I check to see if there are any mistakes after I've been through all the questions once, and know for sure that's the answer I want to give? I was thinking that if the proctor calls 1 minute time I could just quickly fill in everything darker. Or to you think that would set me up for trouble?</p>
<p>No, that would not be very advisable. You don't have enough time on the ACT to go back and shade in the answers again. If you have enough time and want to go back to a certain question and change an answer that's been shaded darkly, you'd be fine. The Scantron won't pick it up (just make sure you erase enough).</p>
<p>Just get a really good eraser and it will be fine.</p>
<p>Is it like the SAT where you have different sections on the same page? Since you can guess(and not lose point), you'd think they would put each of the 4 tests on a different side so proctors can catch people going back to guess easier. If you have to guess....</p>
<p>BE CAREFUL!</p>
<p>Think about it: when you're choosing between 2-3 choices, you're thinking logically. When you give up and guess,you all of a sudden try to go for the choice that you like the most. The one that you like the most is typically the one that they put there to trick you that you normally wouldn't fall for when thinking logically. Still, if you have like 10 questions to fill in with 30 seconds left, I would look at what other letters you have filled in to see a pattern(ie you don't see A being used a lot). There is no pattern, but they are aware that people guess and I'm sure that ACT testtakers do SOMETHING to weaken the guessing game of some people(making it a letter that the person won't think of, like B, since it's only the 2nd one).</p>
<p>Really?? I don't think the ACT has a lot of tricks...</p>
<p>ACT is full of tricks, it's unbelievable! They'll make up words that don't exist for the English section, and camouflage answers from the reading answers according to the Princeton Review. For scantron though, I mean they won't make some silly pattern like AAABA, or ABCDE, but maybe like ACADBE, really random so that people don't get some easy way out. If I have to guess tomorrow when I run out of time, please God help me in choosing the correct answers lol! Don't pray for success, pray for guidance.</p>
<p>Princeton Review is crap. They don't even explain well enough for the SAT or the ACT.</p>
<p>Well then what books should we look over? As in 3rd party books, not 1st party one(the official prep guide).</p>