Saturday ACT Waiting Thread!

LIMOMOF2
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:06:27 +0000

BengalMom - those 3 APs should be fine for any school he applies to because you have a math, a science and a history. Not sure if he’s planning to go into engineering, but most of those schools will require math and either chem or physics, while some will require a third. There really isn’t a need for him to take the Spanish unless he thinks his grade will be higher than any of the other tests. I would recommend that he take a practice Spanish SAT II just to see how his grade turns out, as the grades on that test tend to be lower than expected. I remember you said he went to a school that had a Spanish and Japanese immersion program, but I would still have him take one practice test, just to see how it turns out compared to the others.

So far, my D has taken the Bio E (730) and Chem SAT IIs (740). She wasn’t happy with those scores (I was!), but I think they’ll be lower than the ones she plans to take this year - Math II, US History, and possibly Physics. She absolutely doesn’t need to take the Physics exam, but she may feel compelled to take it anyway. I’ll find out when we get closer to the sign-up date as she plans to take the subject tests in June.

northeastmom - we had no experience with the ACT before yesterday either. I just knew from going to the college info sessions that she should take the test with writing. Her school doesn’t offer the PLAN test, so this was her first exposure minus the practice test she took from The Real ACT Book. She said nothing about the English or Reading sections, and just said that she knows she got one wrong in math and that the science section was long and she had no time for the last two questions, so she filled in the bubble. She always finishes tests early, so I was a little surprised (though not nearly as surprised as I would have been if I hadn’t read all those other reports here on CC).