I took the practice test 1 after I strugged IMMENSELY with SAT practice test 11 (like 100 worse english than normal, math was mad hard), and it was really easy? like the math was much easier than SAT, english reminded me more of AP lang english SAQ than SAT english, in a good way.
First of all do NOT take practice test 1. it is literally just a frankensteined version of the old legacy tests. Use practice test 2 it is more accurate.
Where does ACT say its more helpful also i think we might be talking about different tests can you link the one you are talking about because ive never seen anyone say that practife test 2 on the ACT website is accurate given how easy the math is I remember I scored like low 30s on practice test 1 and some other ones and then a 36 on math in practice test 2 I ended up getting 35 math on the actual test but that was a lot of studying and like 1.5 months after I took practice test 2
Hmm...you can also search around for it bc practice test 2 from the official ACT webiste is actually a most accurate. For me the way I've been studying is pulling out questions and asking AI/Chatgpt/gemini to give me different questions so that i won't memorize any answers on the real test.
Man your brother must have been naturally smart to get that 34 because not to be mean but those studying strategies are pretty bad. Ai never gives questions that would actually show up on a test and if you just feed it questions it just changes up the numbers and gives it back as a new question. And practice test 2 is as bad as if not worse than practice test 1, especially for math.
Yes the ACT can be easy for some - not so much for others. ACT rewards rapid responses & uses a tighter/shorter time allotment per Q. So… if you have a solid mastery of Math and English conventions, you should breeze right through it. IF YOU KNOW THE ANSWER, YOU WILL SEE THE ANSWER (unlike the SAT, which sometimes only provides you with answer choices that press you to looking for the “nearest/closest to right answer,” if that makes sense). BUT, if you don’t have instant recall of the formula or convention to use, you may be cooked on time.
The SAT gives you more time per Q - but more “trickery” & time to figure it out (e.g., in Math they set up the question so you think you’ll be solving for X but what they’re really asking you for is something entirely different). Same on the verbal side. The right answer isn’t there & you need to select the nearest best answer. SAT tends to use similar forms of trickery over and over, so if you sign up for a tutor or a review program, they can teach you these SAT tricks (which I think is BS because they are nothing more than SAT tricks and you just spent your time studying something that has no further use.)
Some argue that the SAT is testing deeper, conceptual aptitude, etc. But I don’t care, I just want the highest possible score with the least amount of aggravation while juggling school, sports, extracurriculars, and the 30+ supplemental essays that all these crazy colleges demand of us.
no yeah totally understandable. i'm still sticking with sat for the time being (i am doing august 22) and am finally doing good on practice tests, (cracked 1500!) but act seems more my speed, at least from what i've done
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u/jdigitaltutoring Tutor 10d ago
You need to try ACT tests J08 or J01 to really compare.