How To Score Above Average On Your ACT

What To Expect:

1. Very Enclosed, cramped areas. 
2. Uncomfortable, test administors staring at you, people nervous. Remember your regular testing conditions. Now, take away the good desk, space, feeling of certainty and relaxation, and you've got the ACT.
3. Dead quiet silence for at least 4 hours [except for the 15 minute break.
4. One-sided desks with half of your regular writing space. Lefties, say a prayer!!
5. Test order going form easiest to hardest.
6. An initial clogging of anxiety and emotion but once you get in a groove you'll be fine.
7. People saying it's easy or that they did good on it. [How do they know!!]
8. College auditoriums or classroom environment.
9. Long, boring instructions.

   10. Headaches, fatigue, despair. [Usually gets better the 2nd time around]
  
Now, How Do you prevent feelings of nervousness , uncertainity, and Anxiety? Here are some proven Steps on every section of the test, including pre-test prep, to help you excel to you potential.

1. On Entering The Room try to find an end desk if you have the choice, finding a middle desk sometimes will mean [like in my 1st testing situation] that you will be looking directly into your neighbor's thigh when you write. Now, this isn't a problem for some, but if they have a skirt on, well you might be getting a little distracted!
2. Sharpen your pencils and mentally prepare yourself for the next four hours. Tell yourself that this is just one big accumulative review and that it's just like any other test. Also try to relax and clear your mind. 
3. While they are having you fill in all of the neccessary  information on your testing booklet, don't get distracted. STAY FOCUSED AND RELAXED.
4. When the test starts you'll be taking the English Section first. This means reading passages and taking the context into meaning. Just remember, look for the main idea of the passage and the important facts. When proceeding to the questions, you can read the details sufficiently enough  to answer the questions.
5. Next, is the Math Section. Relax this is the easiest section. The hardest part is trigonometry and probability functions/combinations. This is all Algebra II and below. 
6. Next, is the Grammar section. Just remember the essentials for punctuation and read the preceding passage carefully in order to know which tense should be used. This section mostly has to do with tense and word choice. Not too hard, but can give you problems if you don't analyze what they're asking you to correct, or not.

Finally, the Science section. This may break your bank as far as your score goes. This usually results because you are getting tired, losing focus, and not many people know and have practiced reading biology graphs and have good analtic skills. This was my worst section in all three tests. Remember, in this section the answers are all on the paper. All you have to do is read and analyze. There is no configuring. Your brain isn't used to this type of process and sometimes you will have to read the graphs a few times before you connect them to the questions. 

 Here Are The Top Ways To Score A Good Score On The ACT :

1. Buy A Good Prep Book: My Favorites  Are The" IVY INSIDERS GUIDE TO THE ACT" and The Princeton Review. These all will help raise your score and help you save precious amount of time on the test.
2.  Practice 45 minute essays and then gradually start 30 min. ones
3.  Make sure you know your grammar rules well, especially parallelism
4. Be able to analyze a passage, which can be as simple as trying to find the flow or purpose.
5. See if you can practice with old ACT tests or practice ones
6. Concenrate with a healthy breakfast!
7. Be Mentally Tough and Focused come test day and relaxed, don't do anything strenuous on your mind 24 hours before!