RahoulVA

Science(23)-Should you go straight to the questions, or the graph/passage? I ran out of time, I might have spent too much time trying to understand the graphs. Are graphs supposed to be easier or harder? Are the passages about opposite scientists easier, so should I go here or another section first?

English(31)-31 is good, but I can improve: are you supposed to read the whole passage? I know you need to for the rhetorical questions, but it saved a lot of time for the other questions when I just jumped from question to question(I read a line below and above).

Math(32)-A great score, but this is my strong point, I need to push this to a 34+. There were a few questions that I just did not remember or had never even heard of like finding the center of a circle. Are there books that cover advanced concepts like this?

Reading(31)-Kind of surprised, I kind of ran out of time. Should I save the prose fiction for last? I just read the first 1 or 2 paragraphs and immediately look for questions that relate to it(I never formulated a way to approach it, I made this strategy up immediately when I opened the test booklet in June), and I guess it worked well, but does reading the entire thing passage first help?

I got a 29, I just need to get science down and make sure the other scores don't decrease.

TTwhite

IDK on approaches, but finding the center of the circle is simple if it's what i'm thinking.. it may have been different. take the leftmost extreme of the circle, and go right the distance of the radius...

RahoulVA

It was the equation for a circle, (x-h)+(y-k)=r squared, or something like that. I did it more than 12 months ago and didn't remember it, so I need a book that is serious on review since this isn't SAT math that focuses more on logic rather than knowing it.

killersdeat0

uh..... wasn't both (x-h) and (y-k) squared also??? eh.... don't remeber.

RahoulVA

Yeah they were supposed to be. I can't just think about science though because even with a low science score, if I can push the other scores into the 99 percentile, I'll be good to go. I have a strong GPA, but I need my ACT score to be in the "Good" or "Great" zone, not the "He's got the basic requirement." At the school I'm looking at, scores go from 26 to 36, but I need 33, so I"ll work on science for a while.