<p>What kind of tactics did you all use to master the ACT?</p>
<p>Your question is very vague.</p>
<p>yeah</p>
<p>i could post a big long post about all the best ways to master all of the sections, but I have done so on most of the threads on the first page of this forum.</p>
<p>other threads give great strategies.</p>
<p>Sorry. Should’ve been more clear. More specifically, what tactics did you guys use on the Science Reasoning and Reading portions.</p>
<p>well, ok. I can live with this.</p>
<p>Ok, on reading, you should try all the “golden” tactics that were for a lucky few, which are</p>
<ol>
<li>Reading all of the questions, reading the passage, and then answering the questions based on memorization</li>
<li>go straight to the questions. Do specific questions, and then go back to vague ones, referring the passage like crazy</li>
</ol>
<p>There are some others, but many have to settle for the traditional read and answer questions.</p>
<p>Something you can do if you haven’t had an active reading life is outline the whole thing. This will help only if you make it really brief.</p>
<p>On science, right when the proctor says “begin working”, label each passage “CV” “CG” or “E” (Charts and graphs, experiments, or conflicting viewpoints). First do the CG passages. Spend about 4 minutes on each one. Take a quick look at the graph, and notice trends. You don’t have to know what the variables mean, just know how they react to each other. Just answer the questions. When you see the answer, just say “bam” and mark that one. There is really almost never a time on the science when you will have to choose between two right answers. Then, do the experiments. Spend about 5 minutes on each one of these. Use the same method you used for CG, except you may have to do some reading to some up the experiments that do not provide a graph. Finally, do the CV passage. You can spend 8 minutes on this one. Just reading the whole thing like it’s a reading passage and it will be ridiculously easy. do not ever review on this section.</p>
<p>hope this helps :)</p>
<p>I do not like all the reading the questions first, skimming the passage crap… Personally, I just read the passage and answer the questions. But it’s worth experimenting to see what works for you 
For reading, making brief annotations can help, if you’re marking line numbers, or a long list of specific facts that you want to skim.</p>
<p>For science, I try to stay to a strict 5 min/passage to pace myself. Although some passages have more questions than others, etc. I find the simplicity of 5 mins/passage makes it easy to tell if I’m on pace. Honestly, there aren’t that many tricks to science, but if you have taken an AP science course, it makes the charts in that subject area easier (usually). </p>
<p>If you’re running out of time, just answer the questions that refer to specific line#, so you do not have to read the whole passage.</p>
<p>reading the passages is great if you are great at reading comprehension. ;)</p>
<p>if not, stick to my method.</p>