EPTAll you American College guys can you help me out?
I'm going to be taking the ACT in April I think.
[Q]ACT, SAT, etc....
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
All you American College guys can you help me out? I'm going to be taking the ACT in April I think. | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
Other than that, just knowing what to do for each section when you go to the real exam will save you time. If you don't have to read the directions, you can skip the few minutes in the beginning and get right to practicing. There's no way to memorize all the potential words that could be on the exam so don't try. Trying to learn greek roots and stuff like that are semi helpful, but ur better served just practicing and getting used to the format. | ||
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chobopeon
United States7342 Posts
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CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11587 Posts
But the ACT is mostly science and Mathematics, i think you could maybe go over wikipedia for chemistry, biology, physics, and geosystems, you could get a good grasp on those subjects. but if you are going to take the SAT, i suggest maybe doing about 10-20 vocab words a week, a good few months in advance and memorize them well enough that you could use them in your daily conversations. Plus, it makes you look smart :D | ||
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PanoRaMa
United States5069 Posts
btw CaucasianAsian, do you post on twoplustwo? | ||
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rsvp
United States2266 Posts
And if you're going to get a prep book, get those 10 real SATs or whatever. Take as many practice tests as you can. | ||
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Servolisk
United States5241 Posts
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thedeadhaji
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
I highly recommend you read through the first few pages of this thread here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=68210 Basically, tons of REAL practice tests straight from the test company - none from prep companies. Only use prep companies for strategies. Pratice-practice-practice. | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
EDIT: The writing part I think will be Excluded this year on my ACT's. | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
I didn't really study at all for these things, but I did do a couple of GRE logics tests several years back... | ||
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HnR)hT
United States3468 Posts
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On March 08 2006 19:12 Mickey[aCt] wrote: How much are the books? and I guess il look over my old Vocab Books. I can't afford 50 buck books but that site will come in handy, thanks man. EDIT: The writing part I think will be Excluded this year on my ACT's. The "Official Guide to the SAT" or w/e and the REAL ACTs book should only cost you $40 total. | ||
GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
Take practice tests over and over again. After each test, go over every single question you weren't 100000% sure on (I'm serious here - you can't just go over the ones you got wrong, you gotta go over the ones you doubted but got right so you know how to get them right) and think about why you got it wrong and why the right answer is right. Do this over and over again. 10 REAL SAT's that book should be helpful. Else use Princeton Review or Kaplan. Barron's is unrealistically difficult. | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
On March 08 2006 18:12 Mickey[aCt] wrote: Basic and simple. What is the best way to prepare for them? All you American College guys can you help me out? I'm going to be taking the ACT in April I think. You don't need to prep for the ACT. I got a 28 not having done a single school related thing for over four months. Just remember midpoint, and distance formulas. Over half the fucking math test is those two things. Those are the only two things that I screwed up on, and I would have gotten over a 30 if I didn't mess my math score up. | ||
Hot_Bid
Braavos36388 Posts
the writing i was always good at but i took a few sections every day for two weeks leading up to it, got 790 this was when the test was broken up mass practice really is the best way, and the 10 real sats books (as many as you can get) are the best | ||
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On March 08 2006 20:39 SweeTLemonS[TPR] wrote: You don't need to prep for the ACT. I got a 28 not having done a single school related thing for over four months. Just remember midpoint, and distance formulas. Over half the fucking math test is those two things. Those are the only two things that I screwed up on, and I would have gotten over a 30 if I didn't mess my math score up. Well, I disagree. You can always prep. Always. But... I have to say I found the ACT insanely easier than the SAT beacuse they dont' try to trick you. Without studying, my friend pulled a 35 on the ACT when he could only manage about a 2230 on the SAT after mass practicing... which prompted me to try the ACT without studying more than 2 hours. I took it, and I got a 35 Math, 33 in English, 29 Reading, and 28 Science. The last two were significantly lower because I didn't pace myself at all, so I ended up just filling in bubbles for the last 7 or so (Science section is soooo easy... should be an easy 33+ just need to learn to pace yourself)... but if I actually studied just a little bit, I have a feeling I could have easily made a 33-34 score on the ACT, which is much better than my mass studied 2140 on the SAT -- that math section always got me a few times and the writing grammar section on the SAT never made sense to me. I missed 10 grammar questions on the SAT with mass prep... and only like 3 on the ACT without prep. ACT grammar just made a lot more sense -- more straight foward for me. | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14899 Posts
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poppa
United States329 Posts
learn the strategies on how to attack math, verbal, and writing then start ur practice | ||
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rpf289
United States3524 Posts
Edit: Assuming the SAT is still written with the same rules applied to the old test, ballpark all math answers, and use logic to figure out what range the answer is in. All answers to each question are listen in numerical (or alphabetical order for English questions) order. Therefore, you don't have to solve problems, but just figure out what range the answer is in. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20090 Posts
Dead serious. In 8th grade i took the ACT and i got a 20 on the science with pure guessing. Mathematically i should've gotten a 9. So maybe i'm just lucky. | ||
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