Posted in Homeschooling--the Best Choice We Ever Made

BJ just received his test scores from his Feb. ACT in the mail when we got home from the shop today.  The first surprise was that they were here already, since it took about six weeks the last time back in October.  The next big surprise was that he raised his Science composite, which was the lowest before, by FIVE POINTS!!!  

I thought that the rest of you who have been away from ACT testing for awhile might like to know the secret.  It is so simple that we couldn't believe it.  The Science section is not really about Science.  And all the readings that talk about lots of math aren't really about math.  It's all about being able to read charts and other methods of showing scientific data, and how to interpret it.  

When his first score was so low in this area, we got a CD out to help, and the first thing that it said was that if you had spent a lot of time on the test trying to figure out complicated math problems in the Science section, you were on the wrong track.  Stop, and ignore the answers that require lots of math, and concentrate on the ones that require logical reasoning.   So BJ did just that this time, and went from a 21 up to a 26 in Science in his composite score.  His percentile went from a 58 to a 90~!!!  

Now we have to make up for lost time on the math and grammar/usage section a bit more, and we will be in scholarship score territory!!!  We were already into National Home School Honor Society range, so we are hoping that some more scholarship things will come his way.  

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