What is the best way to prepare for taking the ACT test?

[JkiD2k2]

What software / online stuff did you guys used if you took the ACT? I have taken it once but want to improve my score. What is there online to use? Or other things i could get? Thanks..

 

[clamum]

Try the practice ACT test thing they give you. I dunno it wasn't actually that hard of a test.

 

[Turin39789]

beer bong

 

[Metalloid]

I honestly didn't do much practice. Two nights before the test I used the practice thing in the book just to get a feel for how much time you get for each question.

The second time I took it this past June I didn't study whatsoever, instead I went to Cedar Pointe the day before the test and got home at 2 in the morning (and somehow managed to do 2 points better than when I took it in April).

 

[Ionizer86]

There's not much you can do to "cram study" for most of the ACT. Work on grammar for the Eng section if you suck at it. Take a practice test, and make sure you've got the timing down on the science and the reading. Do the reading section in the order you prefer. I do the science passage, then social science, and last passages 1 and 3.

 

[FoBoT]

brain transplant

 

[NakaNaka]

I studied really hard for the SAT and only got a 1380 (when I got a 1410 on the PSAT). For the ACT, I took 2 practice tests (spaced very far apart) and just went in. Got a 32, 99th percentile. So take a test or too and relax.

 

[Metalloid]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
I studied really hard for the SAT and only got a 1380 (when I got a 1410 on the PSAT). For the ACT, I took 2 practice tests (spaced very far apart) and just went in. Got a 32, 99th percentile. So take a test or too and relax.

32? Me too!!!!

What were your subject scores?

 

[Ionizer86]

I got a 32 twice and finally managed a 34 the 3rd time! :Q On each of the 32's I knew I messed up pretty big on some stuff. I actually ran out of time on reading the 1st time I took the test, while I somehow bombed Science the 2nd time.