<p>Though I am definitely an SAT person, I forced myself to take the ACT about 2 weeks ago. It was definitely a transition.</p>
<p>Basically, everything was A LOT more fast paced. On the SAT, people can “zone out” for 5 minutes and still finish with a few minutes to spare, but on the ACT, you would pretty much need to work at lightning speed for the rest of the test to even have a shot at a decent score.</p>
<p>On to the specifics:</p>
<p>English:
I felt like it was a lot easier than SAT writing. It tested more of the skills learned in high school english/grammar class</p>
<p>Math:
easy for those who are strong in math. just brush up on geometry,algebra II, and basic trig and you should be good. very straight forward (</p>
<p>BIG SECRET: the negative of the correct answer and/or its some multiple/factor of it should also be among the answer choices if it really is the correct answer (WORKS 99.9% of the time). GO AHEAD TEST IT OUT!</p>
<p>READING:</p>
<p>SPEED SPEED SPEED!</p>
<p>Do not spend to much time on each passage</p>
<p>SPEED IS KEY HERE!</p>
<p>SCIENCE:
Do not try to understand what is actually going on in the passage.
I got a 36 and truthfully, I had no clue what any of the experiments were about.</p>
<p>just practice how to locate and quickly interpret numbers.</p>