<p>I was just wondering how the two compare since the PLAN is like a pre ACT, sort of like the SAT and ACT.</p>
<p>I’m signed up to take the ACT on June 14th, so I have awhile to prepare, but I want to come up with some sort of idea of what I should be doing, how and when.</p>
<p>So, section by section, how do the tests compare?</p>
<p>If they’re all pretty similar, then in order of my scores on each section from lowest to highest, I need to work on math the most, then English, then reading, then science.</p>
<p>I’m not too worried about preparing for the math section because it’s basically all the math that I need to know for the Math B in June anyway, and my class is going to start seriously reviewing in about a week. Part of why I didn’t do well on the math section on the PLAN is that I was only halfway through geometry at the time, so I hadn’t even seen a bunch of the stuff before.</p>
<p>Anyway, any tips? Suggestions?</p>
<p>I currently have a Barron’s book, and I’m planning on getting The Real ACT book, and probably ACT for Dummies. Any others I should look into?</p>
<p>Oh, I know that I have to review, I just wanted to know if they were really that similar so I know what to go over the most.</p>
<p>I just did a practice English section, in 45 minutes timed and with TONS of distractions (I was babysitting my 3 youngest siblings who are 8, 6 and 4, so you can imagine what that was like)…But I did pretty well considering that. I got 19 questions wrong. How do I figure out what my score for the English test is, you know, how they convert the scores from each test and then average them for your composite? Thanks.</p>
<p>PLAN is basically a mini-ACT… the plan just goes up to 32, while the ACT goes up to 36… plan is about 2 hrs… act about 4… it’s just a shortened version… now the act will have some harder stuff on it too, but if you prep enough, it’s just another test in the end</p>
<p>OK. So the general consensus is that they’re similar. Good. That means by nature I should do better on the ACT than I did on the PLAN because since then I’ve learned a lot more, and, have taken more standardized tests. Good.</p>