ACT tips?

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For me, I studied in school during my spare time with the Princetown ACT review books which were absolutely helpful. I don't know what your lowest grade was, but whatever it is, look at the tips on the books that show you tricks for the ACT. For the actual ACT, I'm sure you've already heard this but if a minute has passed and you've realized you're stuck, pick a letter of the day and move on. Also, for science, don't read the excerpts provided before hand unless you need them to answer the question; it saved me time and will surely save you as well. In Science, if possible, skip over the graphs and data you feel are too complicated or isn't processing in your head at the moment and move to the ones with obvious trends like as x increase, y decreases and whatever the case is because that will also save you alot of time. Eventually, you might end up finishing without properly finishing a whole graph section which is roughly 7 question but is alright because your more likely to score higher with more questions you know over being stuck on some and not finishing like other sections you could've easily answered. Guess for the section you skip and come back to it if there's time. In Reading, I sort of skimmed the questions first really quickly then read the passage and answered as I read and that allowed me to finish with literally a few seconds to spare but I still aced the Reading portion so I guess that way works. If a passage isn't making sense, just skip over it or skip the question instead, you can always go back. English was the easiest for me and you simply answer as you read. But check that Princetown review book because there was so many helpful tips there that improved my score gave me a huge boost from my PreACT to ACT. Try taking out a day you know you won't be interrupted and focus on one section of the practice exams like math, science, english or reading. Time yourself like a real exam and try to do them when you're alert. Sitting for an entire practice act all at one might make you loose focus by the science portion and you might do poorer than you expected, talking from experience. Focus first on the sections you are weaker in and leave the ones your good/decent at to the side, at least that what I did, because when you do that, you have a better chance of improving your overall act composite score. besides, if you did good originally in english for example but bad in math, the chances of you becoming worse at english if you focused more on math are not that high versus you putting all your attention in english and leaving math aside. I did that and improved my math grade by a lot. Overall, don't over think it because when you do, you forget what you know. I know it might be hard to do but tell yourself "you're doing your best and that's all you need to ace the test". I hope these tips worked for you though and good luck on your ACT!