To begin with, I registered for the April 14th ACT and then I gone done took it. The results just came back and I'm pretty satisfied with my score. My strategy for the ACT is to take it a minimum of two times and the first time I wanted to take it without studying so that I could see what I needed to work on and give myself a good base. So my first score was a 32 and I think that's a great place to start. Some of my friends give me shit for wanting to take it again, but honestly, if I got a 32 the first time with no preparation, imagine what I could get with a little studying on the areas that I most need it.
So, I've found that it's really hard not to sound like a douche when telling people that I got a 32. Even writing that last sentence makes me sound like a douche so you can see how to perpetual douche cycle can keep on going. I started off telling people like it was NBD and that was clearly the wrong way to go about it. I don't know that people really thought I was a douche but they were definitely way too impressed. So now I just down play it if it ever comes up in conversation, which I try to avoid in the first place. Instead of saying it like a fact, I make it seem like I'm not even sure if that was what I got by trailing off like, "Thirty twwooo...??.." If you know what I mean.
To sum this up and re-instill the belief that I'm a tool, the ACT really isn't all that hard. For the English section, if you know what a normal sentence should sound like, you can do pretty well. For the math section... well you just have to be kinda good at math. There's really no other way around that one. As for reading, time is everything. It isn't overly hard but it was my lowest score, a 30, because I was rushing to get done. Although, I do have to say, after taking my AP Lang exam, I have found that drinking coffee is a really good way to make my brain work faster. I suggest you drink some before the ACT. Science is kind of a bitch all around. Somehow I still did pretty well on it, but I think the best way to improve your score is to just plain get used to it. It takes a long time due to the fact that every problem requires a certain amount of decoding so that you can understand what, exactly, it is asking. I don't even think that it takes a whole lot of intelligence to do well on the ACT, a good memory will serve you just as well if you can remember all the shit they taught you in school.
So, I've found that it's really hard not to sound like a douche when telling people that I got a 32. Even writing that last sentence makes me sound like a douche so you can see how to perpetual douche cycle can keep on going. I started off telling people like it was NBD and that was clearly the wrong way to go about it. I don't know that people really thought I was a douche but they were definitely way too impressed. So now I just down play it if it ever comes up in conversation, which I try to avoid in the first place. Instead of saying it like a fact, I make it seem like I'm not even sure if that was what I got by trailing off like, "Thirty twwooo...??.." If you know what I mean.
To sum this up and re-instill the belief that I'm a tool, the ACT really isn't all that hard. For the English section, if you know what a normal sentence should sound like, you can do pretty well. For the math section... well you just have to be kinda good at math. There's really no other way around that one. As for reading, time is everything. It isn't overly hard but it was my lowest score, a 30, because I was rushing to get done. Although, I do have to say, after taking my AP Lang exam, I have found that drinking coffee is a really good way to make my brain work faster. I suggest you drink some before the ACT. Science is kind of a bitch all around. Somehow I still did pretty well on it, but I think the best way to improve your score is to just plain get used to it. It takes a long time due to the fact that every problem requires a certain amount of decoding so that you can understand what, exactly, it is asking. I don't even think that it takes a whole lot of intelligence to do well on the ACT, a good memory will serve you just as well if you can remember all the shit they taught you in school.
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