2013 september act exam thoughts

NYDAD99
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:41:22 +0000

My son said that Science section was little easier than the May 2013 test, Math was bit harder, reading about same and the English section was easier. He scored only 26 in science section in May 2013, with total composite of 30. He is confident of 29 in science this this time. (He wants his overall composite to go to 31, as the college that he wants to go, super -scores the ACTs).

He did some practice over the summer for science test and ultimately decided that he does his best by targeting only 35 questions in 34 minutes by reading passages carefully and most of all reading the answer choices of each question carefully. (he calls it money in the bank)

He also stopped attempting one of the data passages with 5 questions at all, as he identified the data questions to be his weak spot. He would just bubble in 2nd choice of all the last 5 questions and invariably would get at least one of those questions right. Over the summer while taking practice tests he improved his score up to 28 and 29, from 23 in science section of his first attempt at ACT practice test in Feb 2013.

For this test, he said even after going by his strategy he had one extra minute at the end and solved the question number 46 and 47, by reading the questions and choices first and then finding the answer in the data tables. In last 15 seconds he bubbled the remaining 3 questions with 2nd choice.

Lets see what happens in about couple of weeks. I will update you all, as we both (Dad and son) learnt a lot from this forum and will share what worked and what did not. He is confident that this strategy in science worked!