<p>I will be a junior this coming academic year. Last summer, I took the ACT as a practice to see how much studying I will need to do. I got a composite score of 28, which is not as good as I had hoped, but I thought that for someone who had just finished freshman year it was okay. I got around 29, 30 for English, Math, and Reading, but only about a 23 for Science, so it pulled my score down.
I have a Princeton Review book, which I am currently working through, and I plan to finish it by the end of summer. My goal is to get a 32 on a practice ACT before school starts. How realistic is this goal if I finish the book? </p>
<p>If you just figure out how to do science faster, you should improve a lot as a junior. Much of science is just getting the information quickly–usually it’s all laid out right there, in obvious spots. The only problem is the tight time limit. I don’t see an issue with you getting a 32 if you work hard this summer. Good luck!</p>
<p>For science, it usually isn’t necessary to read/look at the any of the info/graphs before you do the questions. Just read the question, refer to the appropriate graph, and answer the question. That’s much, much faster. </p>