<p>How much time do you guys/girls dedicate weekly/daily to get the score that you got? If it’s not too personal could you tell me what you originally got on the ACT and after __ many hours your score was able to improve by ___ many points </p>
<p>A warning:
Its important to realize that progress rates will be different depending on where you are starting from.</p>
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<li>Progress is slower when your score is already high. Its easier to go from 20 to 23 than from 30 to 33. The ACT website gives some statistics on that <a href=“http://www.actstudent.org/faq/more.html”>stats</a>.</li>
<li>Your fastest progress comes when you first start studying. Lookup the law of diminishing returns to understand why.</li>
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<p>By analogy think about running. Its easy to shave a minute off your mile time if you start out of shape and haven’t run before. Impossible to shave a minute off if you are an olympic athlete who’s been training all of your life.</p>
<p>My experience:
I’ve been working with students who have scores in the 18-23 range. They have been able to increase their scores by about 2 points after only one practice exam and a review of the problems they missed. That took them about 12 hours of studying. 1 point for 6 hours of study, that’s got to be about a maximum rate of progress. I’m sure that the progress rate can fall to zero if your score is already high or if you have already spent a ton of time studying.</p>