34 vs 36 on ACT

tdallege
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 04:59:14 +0000

Just imagine yourself as someone looking at different applications. Obviously someone with a 36 will look better than another with a 34. Even though the ACT has a “high margin of error” just getting a 36 shows that even if you got lucky, you have the skill to get a 34 no problem, whereas with a 34 you could have gotten lucky and your floor is lowered to around a 32.

I was in your situation after getting a 34 my first time. If you take 1-2 more science practice tests you’ll get the hang of it and then it just depends on whether you have a good testing day or not. I invested less time into my second ACT as my first (albeit either amount was still not a lot :P) and still got a 36. Why settle when you can go for gold?