<p>all i know is the timing on the act is crazy stuff man
and the science has very little to do with actual science, might as well call it critical reading with charts</p>
<p>thanks, iljets.
I thought the reading on the ACT was MUCH easier. I wish we didn't have to wait so long for the scores, although I'm not quite as enthusiastic about the math and science. I was definitely crunched for time. At least I caught a few stupid mistakes before I filled them in, and no wrong answer penalty or grid-ins!</p>
<p>i think acts are so much damm easier because everything is like simplier. its just the messed up timing. it goes so fast! or maybe its because like im fresh into it. like no one at my school even does prep for it. so i ended up going in cold. my timing was so off that i usually only ended up finishing half the questions for each section. 3/4s if lucky. Sats gave us more time i think. i think they were easier. its just the ones where they give you a, b,c,d,e which one contains the mistake in the sentence ones. i hate those. reading the passages.. are ok. if they have good ones. usually its so boring.</p>
<p>this proctor reading the sats for himself said What the ____ out loud cus one of the passages was retarded. -_-;;</p>
<p>today's essay topic was really easy tho. oh the irony. i wrote another essay about this but about supersize the movie specifically so that helped. i think i like the acts more because the topics dont require you to think as much and you can directly relate it to your life.</p>
<p>I took both SAT and ACT. I am not a stellar student, but I manage in high school. So far, getting a 1610 on the SAT and a 26 on ACT practice gives me an idea on which one I really prefer and do well on. I honestly believe that ACT is much easier for me because it is basically about common sense. Besides the questions are straightforward without using any tricks or other inquiry techniques. What I really like about the ACT is its organization where I am able to focus on one subject or area without having to deal with going back to it again (which in the SATs, math and reading, and writing sections are divided which I really don't like).</p>
<p>I am unsatisfactory with vocabulary because English is not my primary language - still me and vocabulary don't mix very well. In the SATs, these vocabularies will always always stump me. In addition, it's the 1/4 points off penalty that really turns me off in SAT (because of this, I usually just leave blank when it comes to blind guessing). In the ACT, if I needed blind guessing, then I am not worried of the 1/4 points off penalty and resume to bubble an answer. Its no sweat, altogether. </p>
<p>In my point of view, however, SAT is much harder because it's more challenging and require a great deal of thinking.</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>The reading and english sections are easier to me on the ACT. Math problems are easier, but it seems like there are more of them and less time. Science is what kills me.</p>
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I thought the ACT questions etc. were easier, but it was so hard to manage my time that I did worse than on the SAT.
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I thought the same way as well. I had trouble with timing on the reading and science questions. Overall, I still found the ACT easier than the SAT, and the ACT is most definitely not the standard in my state.</p>
<p>The only prep I had for the ACT was clicking through the practice questions on the ACT website the night before, and I thought I did pretty well. I'm waiting on my scores, but I expect them to be much better than my SAT scores.</p>
<p>"all i know is the timing on the act is crazy stuff man
and the science has very little to do with actual science, might as well call it critical reading with charts"</p>
<p>Well they can't really test you on science that needs backround knowledge because some students never take physics and some never take chemistry so it wouldn't be fair.
The science section just tries to judge how well you'd do in a science course by analyzing your logic and reasoning skills in regards to the scientific method and what not.</p>
<p>yeah true. i noticed that those that if you had background in the subjects, it took less time to answer because you already knew what to look for. i got lucky and took all the sciences before.</p>
<p>"Well they can't really test you on science that needs backround knowledge because some students never take physics and some never take chemistry so it wouldn't be fair."
yes, so they should cut it out completely
"The science section just tries to judge how well you'd do in a science course by analyzing your logic and reasoning skills in regards to the scientific method and what not.""
yeah just like how a 30 min essay section tests your writing abilities (it doesn't really)</p>