Just Took The ACT

JF1zl3 said:
Just got my score yesterday.

I have taken it before and got a 23 I believe. But this time I got this (numbers in parenthesis represent the difference between test 1 and test 2):

Cumulative: 27(+4)
English: 26 (+6)
Math: 26 (0)
Reading: 25 (+4)
Science: 29 (+4)

I am extremely pleased with my progress, and I plan to take it again whenever the next one is. I think I may be able to squeeze out a 30.
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May I ask how old you are? It seems that the younger you are when you take it, you will automatically do much better than somebody who waits. I waited until the summer before my senior year and then took it again a couple months later. Sure I got a 1950 but if I had started taking them my freshman or sophomore year I might have something like a 22xx or so.

I have a lot of regrets in my education.
 
emolover said:
May I ask how old you are? It seems that the younger you are when you take it, you will automatically do much better than somebody who waits. I waited until the summer before my senior year and then took it again a couple months later. Sure I got a 1950 but if I had started taking them my freshman or sophomore year I might have something like a 22xx or so.

I have a lot of regrets in my education.
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I am 17. I had just turned 17 when I took it the first time, and I was about 17.5 when I took it the second time.
I agree with what you're saying though, I think it makes sense.
 
emolover said:
May I ask how old you are? It seems that the younger you are when you take it, you will automatically do much better than somebody who waits. I waited until the summer before my senior year and then took it again a couple months later. Sure I got a 1950 but if I had started taking them my freshman or sophomore year I might have something like a 22xx or so.

I have a lot of regrets in my education.
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that's true. I was 14 when I started taking the SATs. The more times you take it, the easier it becomes, since you know what to expect.
 
uniacto said:
the science section was pretty easy for me, it's just interpreting charts and tables, right?
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There were some questions that you needed to have some background info to do. I was just lucky I took AP Chemistry so I actually knew the answer. When I had some extra time, I read through the entire passage to see if the answers to those questions were actually in there and they weren't there. (thermochem stuff)
Other than that it was ok, I just had to rush a little because there were more opinion things (the stuff that's basically the same as the reading section) than I was used to.
 
Yuxuibbs said:
There were some questions that you needed to have some background info to do. I was just lucky I took AP Chemistry so I actually knew the answer. When I had some extra time, I read through the entire passage to see if the answers to those questions were actually in there and they weren't there. (thermochem stuff)
Other than that it was ok, I just had to rush a little because there were more opinion things (the stuff that's basically the same as the reading section) than I was used to.
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huh, that's interesting. My test was basically all about common sense and stuff like that. Yea, on some sections, I had only like 1-2 minutes left, and on the math one, I barely finished :P
 
Last year (8th grade) I took the EXPLORE test for the first time and scored a composite 23 (max is 25). What bother me was this. Math: 25. English: 24. Reading: 24. Science: 19.. I thought the science one was really easy too. :/ I took it again a month ago (required as freshman) and I hope I got a 24 or 25. Next year I'll take the PLAN (max 32) and then the ACT junior year. Honestly I didn't know it was possible to take the ACT before junior year, lol.
 
Jaycee said:
Last year (8th grade) I took the EXPLORE test for the first time and scored a composite 23 (max is 25). What bother me was this. Math: 25. English: 24. Reading: 24. Science: 19.. I thought the science one was really easy too. :/ I took it again a month ago (required as freshman) and I hope I got a 24 or 25. Next year I'll take the PLAN (max 32) and then the ACT junior year. Honestly I didn't know it was possible to take the ACT before junior year, lol.
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I see sophomores take it all the time. I took it in 7th grade, but that was for the Duke Tip program. I don't know if you are allowed to otherwise in middle school.
 
Jaycee said:
Last year (8th grade) I took the EXPLORE test for the first time and scored a composite 23 (max is 25). What bother me was this. Math: 25. English: 24. Reading: 24. Science: 19.. I thought the science one was really easy too. :/ I took it again a month ago (required as freshman) and I hope I got a 24 or 25. Next year I'll take the PLAN (max 32) and then the ACT junior year. Honestly I didn't know it was possible to take the ACT before junior year, lol.
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Those scores are all extremely good. You can basically take the ACT anytime in high school but most people take it junior year. In my opinion, the EXPLORE and PLAN just tell you approximately where you were at that moment as far as scores go. My friend got similar scores to yours on the PLAN and he got a perfect score (36) on the ACT the first time he took it with almost no extra effort (extra effort as in taking prep classes and doing practice tests and stuff).
 
I just took the SAT 2 Biology test this morning.
I've been really nervous for it (like shaking hands and everything when I was filling in my name on the test today), but once the actual test started I felt fine. I think I did really well on it, better than any of my practice tests even.
 
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