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Oct 8, 2019
10:14:52am

Mayor of Cougartown All-American

POLL: How many times did you take the ACT

I took it with zero prep and wanted to do a little better so I got a practice book and all that and only got 1 point higher. HATED every minute of the studying for it and the spending all Saturday morning taking it. Figured it was good enough to get into BYU (it was) and called it a day. Now I hear about kids taking it 5+ times and I can't imagine.

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POLL: How many times did you take the ACT

Mayor of Cougartown

10/8/19 10:14am

I didn't really know what it was until after high school.

Backcountry

10/8/19 10:16am

My grandpa dangled a $5000 reward if I could get a 36

Coog4Life

10/8/19 10:17am

Twice. Bombed math the first time because I'd forgotten Geometry. Because

SandYFan

10/8/19 10:18am

I think I would have done much better with some test taking strategy taught to

Mayor of Cougartown

10/8/19 10:22am

My goal was to get a 36 on the math. I got a 35. I missed pre-algebra questions

Mems

10/8/19 10:26am

Needed a 33 to get a 4 year scholarship to BYU. Got a 32 the 1st 2 times and

rggee

10/8/19 10:19am

Once. Slept in and missed my second chance.

Cougarrr

10/8/19 10:20am

Twice. Got 36.

10/8/19 10:26am

Isn't 18 + 18 = 38?

TNT

10/8/19 10:28am

RE: Isn't 18 + 18 = 38?

Cougarrr

10/8/19 10:31am

RE: Isn't 18 + 18 = 38?

10/8/19 10:36am

No one really knows. It's a mystery. Like vegan friendly bacon.

Mems

10/8/19 10:43am

I’m right there with you

buffgato

10/8/19 10:31am

kid who lived on my floor freshman year bragged about his perfect score. Flunked

Mayor of Cougartown

10/8/19 10:36am

They say the predictive value of these tests is actually pretty low

buffgato

10/8/19 10:38am

As a generalization, people with higher scores go to harder schools. When you

Lance71

10/8/19 11:05am

Parents never went to college...had no idea what the ACT was and didn't care.

Kauai

10/8/19 10:54am

RE: Parents never went to college...had no idea what the ACT was and didn't

Backcountry

10/8/19 11:58am

My daughter took it 7 times. Ended with a 35.

Lance71

10/8/19 11:06am

That’s exactly what I did.

jxncoog

10/8/19 11:15am

Took it 4 times. Staggered over 3 years. Worked well for me.

TheWanderer

10/8/19 11:52am

Once, no prep.

Yohy

10/8/19 12:35pm

Just took the SAT and BYU called it good. Was that your Ask?

VballDad

10/8/19 8:18pm

it was not.

Mayor of Cougartown

10/9/19 7:54am

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