How do I raise my score from a 31 to a 34?

kwhububba
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:11:37 +0000

Don’t listen to the guy who says you can’t improve reading. I did it! I was just like you, getting 28’s and 29’s on practices but I got a 36 on the June reading ACT. Always read and annotate first and do the questions after. But the biggest piece of advice for reading is find the passage that you suck at most: the narrative, social science, humanities, or science. For me it was always the narrative. Drill the one you are worst at as many times as you can, doing practice tests and always annotating. Once you get used to the questions you will be able to predict what they are going to ask while you are reading, even before you look at the questions. This info that jumps out at you should be annotated, nothing else. (Always pay attention to lists within the story and chronological events-those are common questions and they waste time if you do not have them annotated).

For science I also went from 31 to 36 by practicing. It’s pretty much a logic test with some scientific knowledge required. Never read the passage or graph first, start at the questions and look for the answers after you understand the question. Be extremely careful because once you get in the 30ish range it’s mostly silly mistakes that drag you down. Another piece of advice is draw all over the graphs. Stop eyeballing data points and draw lines everywhere to make sure everything is matched up.