<p>Sort of. But at highly competitive schools (<30% acceptance rate) good essays won’t make up for subpar scores (less than the 25% percentile). There are exceptions of course.</p>
<p>I guess it’s just me seeing more of good essays getting one in(along with EC’S,recs of course) than test scores. based on what I’ve heard/seen from other people </p>
<p>For those who have gotten your June ACT scores, did you take the ACT <em>with Writing</em>, or the standard ACT? Trying to figure out if perhaps the standard ACT scores have posted, but the ACT with Writing test scores have not posted yet. TIA.</p>
<p>I took ACT with writing and mine are up</p>
<p>Lol guews ima take it again in september</p>
<p>@VaishS I know your probably not retaking but I better see you on september ACT discussion on CC ;)</p>
<p>@master1006 lol my parents want me to retake it but im really leaning towards no 
but yeah I’ll check in and see how you did ;)</p>
<p>@VaishS wha…u got a 35 thats near perfect cmon ;)</p>
<p>@master1006 yeah they want me to go for the 36 #indianparents</p>
<p>Lol now I feel sad…:(</p>
<p>;) nah at least I got 32 this time. Last time I got 31.50 so im improving lol. 32.50 is next! :)</p>
<p>@master1006 Im SURE you can get a 33 lol dont worry abt it ;)</p>
<p>Did many of you take classes for the ACT or was it self - studying? Trying to decide what to do next :)</p>
<p>self studying mostly, had a private tutor for a couple weeks (tooo expensive and not worth it)</p>
<p>I didn’t get my scores back yet but according to some of you guys who got it back what should i expect with the following number of wrongs:</p>
<p>5 wrong English
2 wrong Math
7 wrong Reading
3 wrong Science</p>
<p>I’m in michigan and I still haven’t got my scores!! It’s super annoying because most of my friends have </p>
<p>@bwany6 , my daughter scores lower on science compared to other sections. She finds the science section difficult and was never able to complete the section in time on the practice tests she took. But on the real test, she thought that the science section was the easiest and finished it before time! We were surprised to see a score of 26. But we have ordered the question and answer service and probably will know how she scored that low. </p>
<p>Hello you guys, I was wondering how did you guys prepare for the test. What books do you recommend to prepare for the test? Also, how are the real tests compared to the Red Book practice tests? Also, any books for ACT Reading specifically? Thanks you guys.</p>
<p>I used the red book (real ACT prep guide), princeton review (1296 Questions) and kaplan… they’re all good. Literally you have to push yourself throughout the entire test and read at top speed the whole time. Practice speed reading and doing problems, its the only way to learn how the test works. </p>
<p>@Hydrolysis The red book tests are accurate and I also found the Princeton 1,296 Questions book also very helpful and accurate
I used the Barron 36 english section which is the only thing I had to use to get my english score (35)
the reading in the Princeton 1296 is good, for reading you just have to do enough practice to get a feel for the type of questions and what they are asking</p>
<p>@Hydrolysis The Princeton Review has a book for around $45 that has 6 full length tests that are very similar to the real one. Using that book helped me improve my score by 4 points, and in my opinion, it is way more helpful (and cheaper) than getting a tutor. </p>
<p>I only used the Barron’s ACT book and the Red book for studying. I only studied a couple of days before the exam due to finals, AP exams, etc. I still got a 34. </p>