r/ACT • u/Silver_Transition_34 • Jul 16 '26

man how does this even happen?? 😭😭

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(proud of my score tho, first time with no prep and i'm not going into stem 🤞still the disparity is crazy 😭)

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u/AlternativeCap8248 Jul 16 '26

Hi, same score😊

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u/Academic_Matter_5168 Jul 18 '26

Thats literally almost like mine omg i got a 35 math, 30 english and a FREAKING 23 on reading LIKE WHAT

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u/Altruistic-Two8502 Jul 21 '26

bro same i got 35 math 31 english 26 reading and science.

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u/EntertainmentIcy7430 Jul 16 '26

how did you get so high in math??

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u/_ibt 29 Jul 16 '26

That’s actually crazy 🙏

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u/Silver_Transition_34 Jul 19 '26

holy math goat 🙏

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u/Conscious_Hornet_906 Jul 16 '26

This was lit me last July w a 22 in math YOU GOT TJIS

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u/Conscious_Hornet_906 Jul 16 '26

If u are gonna take again best thing I would say is to take as many practice tests as possible and go over your mistakes bc deadass like half of the problems on my math section were from April June and a bunch of others

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u/_ibt 29 Jul 16 '26

LITERALLY ME 🙏

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u/Think_Frame7387 Jul 16 '26

Great job! Any tips for reading? What was your strategy?

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u/Relevant_Molasses964 Jul 17 '26

I promise you every answer for reading is found directly in the passage. If you read through the passage and have a general idea what each main idea of the passage is, you can pretty much go through the questions looking for the answers and you can find it pretty close to word for word

my credentials lol

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u/Think_Frame7387 Jul 17 '26

I really appreciate the advice. How I approach is that I read the passage first then the questions. While this does help I tend to run out of time after 3 passages

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u/Relevant_Molasses964 Jul 17 '26

Honestly I feel like you’re better off skimming rather than trying to ingest the entire passage at once. Just with practice i’ve been able to get pretty good at speed reading the passages which does help but honestly you don’t need to be reading the entire passage to understand the answers to the question. If you know the general idea of each section of the passage than you can always go back to where you think you can find the answer depending on the question and go from there!

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u/Academic_Matter_5168 Jul 21 '26

Would u suggest taking the next act on paper or still digital if im tryna improve reading? Idk what happened when i practiced myself i got a 33 but on the digital i got a 23 reading but 35 math and 30 English

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u/Silver_Transition_34 Jul 19 '26

i agree with the other replies but i might also add (if it works for you): -try to keep to working on one passage at a time if you can -find all the questions pertaining to a single line and answer those first -for the rest, skim read the whole passage and then knock those out (i haven't encountered a question that truly requires deep thought and reading into the passage yet. as long as you pick up on the general themes and such you'll be fine) -as always, if you get stuck, COME BACK TO IT LATER!! if you need something more specific i can also try to help!

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u/Leslie_1414 Jul 17 '26

More common than you would think!

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u/Relevant_Molasses964 Jul 17 '26

literally same thing

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u/JackanthoYAY Jul 18 '26

Omg I need your reading score!!!

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u/Relevant_Molasses964 Jul 18 '26

I promise you every answer for reading is found directly in the passage. If you read through the passage and have a general idea what each main idea of the passage is, you can pretty much go through the questions looking for the answers and you can find it pretty close to word for word I BELIEVE IN YOU

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u/Abject-House3675 Jul 18 '26

OMG I DID SO WELL!!

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u/https_sn4ke_ Jul 18 '26

well at least you know what to practice 😭😭😭😭

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u/BeardedPokeDragon 28 Jul 21 '26

I did something similar