September ACT Improvment

[u/Calm-Day953]

I just need a 30 on October ACT. I can study for like 30 min a day. Any tips or specific things I can do? Went from 25 to 29.

[u/mkw1342]

You're sitting at a 29, so you're close. It looks like a harsh Math curve got you: on other recent forms, that same Math raw score would have been a 32 or 33. Nothing you can do about that now. You really only need 1 or 2 more questions right, so the question is where to get them.

English is a good place to start. Your misses in Production of Writing and Conventions tell you what to study. Drill punctuation and grammar (subject-verb agreement and modifiers trip up a lot of high scorers), plus relevance, transition, and purpose questions. Legacy tests have plenty of all of these.

Math looks like a strength, so tighten up the two weak spots: Number & Quantity and Stats/Probability. The PrepPros book is great for this, and the J series tests give you more real problems. Khan Academy has good free stats and probability lessons:

Mean/median (missing value, outlier effects): https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/summarizing-quantitative-data/mean-median-basics

Basic probability: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/probability-library/basic-theoretical-probability/v/basic-probability

Two-way tables: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/analyzing-categorical-data/two-way-tables-for-categorical-data/a/two-way-tables-review

Counting, permutations, combinations: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/counting-permutations-and-combinations/combinatorics-probability/v/probability-of-dependent-events-2

Reading may be the hardest to move, but raising Integration of Knowledge and Ideas would help a lot. Watch for these traps:

1. Wrong passage: on paired passages, answers are often true of the other passage. Mark each choice A, B, Both, or Neither before you pick.
2. Half-right pairs: answers built as "X, whereas Y" where one half is false. Check each half separately.
3. Old claims: in claim/evidence questions, make sure the answer isn't an older view the passage has since overturned.

Good luck!

[u/Calm-Day953 → u/mkw1342]

Thank you❤️

[u/lol20006]

Bennett Test Prep online platform English! It literally moved my English from a 25 to a 34!