<p>Feel free to post any questions that you don’t comprehend, and we will try to resolve them. I feel that this thread will enable us to further develop our abilities, while also enabling us to ask and assist others.</p>
<p>Is there such thing as a hard science question? I’m new to the ACT and I did the practice problems on the ACT website and they are all in the data presented… just have to look for it. Right? Unless if you mean by hard, you mean a hard to understand passage, which I understand.</p>
<p>In february, 3 of the 40 questions called for outside knowledge.
2 were from AP Biology( cellular respiration, alleles )
1 was from Electronics( the greater the resistance, the more heat is released )</p>
<p>you needed to know cellular reproduction, photosynthesis, and knowledge of resistors. </p>
<p>Since these were NOT at all included in the passages, they can be considered hard because you need to have taken the courses outside.</p>
<p>Edit: There is also a need for speed. Time yourself next time.</p>
<p>This isn’t a science-science related question more of a science/math course related one.
If I plan to study a soft science maybe science related field is College Prep Math, and Earth Science, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and intergated Chemistry and Physics going to cut it? I’m worried it won’t. I got straight A’s in my science classes and A’s and B’s in math but I’m worried since I wasn’t in advanced or AP it won’t be enough, or they won’t accept me.
Is this okay, if it isn’t what should I do to fix it? Should I take 2 science classes senior year, or bump up to Functions and Trig? I’m currently in 11th grade.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance! :-)</p>
<p>It depends on what score you’re hoping to get. If you’re going for around a 30, bumping up to trig is unnecessary because there are only 4 questions. If you are going for a 36, then taking courses helps. </p>
<p>I got 36s in both math and science this February, and these are the courses I’ve taken (I’m in 11th grade):
Taken: AP biology, AP chemistry, trig/precalc
Currently taking: AP physics C, electronics 2, ap calc BC</p>
<p>I think the soft sciences that you were saying( like earth science) are not too useful. Best thing is to actually do the labs so you know what the passages are about.</p>
<p>Also, if you plan to take something in senior year, it wont help much at all because the latest you can take the ACT is in September and maybe November. But you wont have learned enough in the course by then. </p>
<p>Once again, the classes you should take depends on what you are planning to score. A person going for a 25 on the ACT should not be taking an AP class, while a person going for a 35 should. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks but I don’t plan to take the ACT unless I should, the colleges I’m applying to only look at your SAT and SAT II scores.</p>
<p>I’m looking at going for Neuropsychology not Earth Science. </p>
<p>Thanks anyway! :-)</p>
<p>Wow you really need outside information? Like how extensive? I’m horrible with all sciences other than biology, which I’m actually interested in and knowledgeable of.</p>
<p>once again, it depends on what score you want. If you want a 30, you don’t NEED outside information, you can just get the 37 other ones right and guess on the 3(using Feb test as an example). If you want a perfect score, then you should know at an honors level in bio, chem, and physics, but that is only for a 34-36 score.</p>
<p>Oh sorry I just noticed this is the ACT section not the SAT one, oopps. :D</p>
<p>Were they surface level questions?</p>