PhuturePriest Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I have a math tutor now! He's my brother-in-law's best friend and former college roommate, and I've known him since I was 13 or 14. We've always gotten along really well, and I'm going to start working with him for about 2 1/2 hours twice a week! I learn really fast, so I think because this will be regularly done (And with an actual teacher), I'll be able to get a really good math score on the ACT! Wish me luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PadrePioOfPietrelcino Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 good luck, and that's great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 good luck, and that's great. Yeah. Emily was literally able to teach me two years of math in one hour, and by the end I had it all down, so if we do this twice a week, there's no reason I should be worried about getting less than a composite score of 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I got a 29 on the ACT, but that was in 1979 so the scale may be different now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 YOU GO FOR IT, MILES!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I got a 29 on the ACT, but that was in 1979 so the scale may be different now. No, it's the same 1-36 scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 That's so wonderful, Miles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilllabettt Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I got a 29 on the ACT, but that was in 1979 so the scale may be different now. Pardon moi, but who gives a flying pancake? He's my brother-in-law's best friend and former college roommate, and I've known him since I was 13 or 14. What are the odds. Kansas is incestuous. You'll be fine kiddo -- the math section is the easiest to bring up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Anyways... I have a math tutor now! He's my brother-in-law's best friend and former college roommate, and I've known him since I was 13 or 14. We've always gotten along really well, and I'm going to start working with him for about 2 1/2 hours twice a week! I learn really fast, so I think because this will be regularly done (And with an actual teacher), I'll be able to get a really good math score on the ACT! Wish me luck! I suck at math but my ACT math score was highest oddly enough. Its great to take initiative (I didnt when I prepared (or didnt prepare)) but at the end of the day no one will care what you got on your ACT. The professional world wont even care much about your GPA. School cares though. School is a business. The unfortunate thing about higher education is that they stress grades more than they stress learning because of how their system is set up. I work in a professional research lab facility and I know of chemists who had GPAs of 2.0 as well as those who had GPAs of 4.0 however they are doing the exact same job now. Standardize testing is kinda meh anyway :) But we live in the matrix so you have to live by its rules. Randomness over :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappo Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Pardon moi, but who gives a flying pancake? What are the odds. Kansas is incestuous. You'll be fine kiddo -- the math section is the easiest to bring up. Wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, or did Winchester hack your account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilllabettt Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 (edited) did Winchester hack your account? You flatter me, sir. That is a level to which people like myself can only aspire. Edited January 24, 2014 by Lilllabettt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 What helped me was taking the test twice. I got rid of the fear of the unknown, and figured out which things I needed to hit. Getting a tutor is a great idea, but only if he teaches to the test. These tests aren't about what you know about the subject, but about how much you know about what they think is important about the subject. I kept trying because I needed the 29 to get the scholarship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PadrePioOfPietrelcino Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I dunno, true I personally have always tested quite high on tests so I might be biased, but that is I do well across the board on formats, purposes, ect for the test. I have found that if you actually know the information being tested on and know the concept then your good to go. I don't think teaching to the test is necessary. it seems like people are afraid of learning something they won't be tested on. The one skill I would develop is the educated guess. I do usually spend some time, only a little, taking multiple choice practice tests of a subject I am almost completely ignorant about. I then get the best score I can by cross applying what knowledge sets I do have to the question and the answer provided. I usually can end up with a 40-60%, which for ACT purposes where wrong answers don't penalize you it's best to attempt an answer just in case you dumb luck it. A critical method of reducing answers can greatly improve your chances of getting it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 What helped me was taking the test twice. I got rid of the fear of the unknown, and figured out which things I needed to hit. Getting a tutor is a great idea, but only if he teaches to the test. These tests aren't about what you know about the subject, but about how much you know about what they think is important about the subject. I kept trying because I needed the 29 to get the scholarship. Exactly. It doesnt matter what you know it matters if you know what the teacher wants you to know in order to do well on a test. Also, when I took the ACT I was very upset by the science section. That was the ONE SPOT I was actually excited about...but it had pretty much nothing to do with science as far as the questions go. It was literally just a big graph with geology data in it and the questions were simply testing how well you could read the graph info. The info in the graph could have been about cupcakes and it would have had the same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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