<p>What are the strategies all you guys use on each section of the ACT? Just curious!</p>
<p>This is what I do…</p>
<p>Night before: Get minimum 8 hours of sleep.
Morning of: Eat large breakfast including lots of protein (e.g. eggs and bacon). Drink a small amount of coffee and orange juice, but not too much.</p>
<p>English: Do questions in order. When in doubt, I go with my gut. I have an editor’s eye, so for the most part I can just read the correct answer into it before even looking at the choices. Use remaining time for a bathroom break.</p>
<p>Math: Do questions in order. Check all work at least once. Pay attention.</p>
<p>Reading: Skim passage, go straight to questions, find answers to questions in order, proceed to next passage, repeat.</p>
<p>Science: Skip all intro material. Go straight to questions. Find answers. Read only what is absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>I knew it!! the Secret is BACON!</p>
<p>So I’m assuming you did very well on the ACT (36?)?</p>
<p>Yep, 36 ;). People are always disappointed when they ask how I got it.</p>
<p>While I can repeat other strategies I’ve heard (or know, but don’t use), I’ve yet to understand why prep companies use it as a selling point that their teachers got 35/36. It makes them <em>less</em> capable, because chances are good that even if they know about the strategies from their training, they still don’t have any experience using them.</p>
<p>I’d rather take prep from someone who started at a 24 and finished with a 29 than someone who walked in, sat down, took the test, and got a 36. (Most people who get 36 can get 33+ consistently with no prep. And then tell you to eat bacon for breakfast.)</p>
<p>I’m not kidding about the bacon, though. It helps the brain, and anything you do helps. (It may also put you in a better mood, which helps too.)</p>
<p>I’ll make sure to get my mother to make me some Bacon</p>