is the act test hard?
547005
It's been about 12 years since I took the ACT, so I cannot remember all the details. From what I do remember, it wasn't exactly easy, but it wasn't impossibly hard. Good luck.
939311
it really just depends on your strengths and weaknesses. i'm very strong in english, reading, and science, but i'm terrible at math, so i prefer the ACT. but if you're equally good at reading and math, you should probably go with the SAT. for college, etc., the SAT takes the highest scores you've ever made in each section, and that's what colleges receive. so if you do great on verbal one time and do horrible on math, and you take it again and bomb verbal and do better on math, colleges get your highest ever verbal score, and your highest ever math score. for the ACT, it's your highest composite (total) score, so that kind of sucks. i suggest taking both several times and sending your highest score to colleges. i hope this helps.
1069715
do good is all I know.  The test is really long.  When I took it I remember that it wasn't that hard I got a 99% or something.
619036
Its not near as  hard as you think it is. But I did like 300 pts better on the second one. There are programs you can buy at like Best Buy... they REALLY HELP! and they have a "cram" options. If you took practice tests you should be alright. Its hard not to want to kill yourself after a couple hours of the test so just be prepared to sit there for 5 hours and trust me... its not hard! Good luck!
926028
The MCAT wasn't hard, it was just really long and arduous. I took it twice and scored in the 85th percentile both times (score expires fast!).\n\nThe NY Bar Exam sounds far more painful. Any test that takes several days and involves case files and multiple handwritten essays has gotta be tougher than the MCAT.\n\nBut I think the collected USMLE exams, Steps 1 through 3 PLUS CLINICAL have got to be the worst. If it wasn't hard enough to pass, it also costs thousands of dollars just to take!!!
287282
I bought an ACT study book, went through it, and it raised my score 3 points from the time i took it without studying or reviewing at all. They have some good tips in them, and they do help as long as you're devoted enough to read it all. \n\nAnd being smart helps too.
923258
ACTis outta 36\nSAT is outta 1600\nbest way to prepare for them is to get SAT or ACT preparation book from ur local B&N and study it. i spent 1000$ on a course my teacher told me about and my scores dropped which like never happens accoring to them but then i studied my self and my scores went up 200 points. so just review basic stuff. The stuff we learn in school is not in SAT. SAT is a critical thinking test while ACT is a school based test. good luck ...... \np.s start taking them in 11th grade because you can take em as many times as you want or till you get ur desired score.
370732
Is it really that hard to behave?
879390
I took it once. It was easier than the SAT, and I didn't study.\n\nHowever, I didn't do great. If I studied and did it again, I would compleatly have nailed it. \n\nI didn't do well on my SAT and ACT, yet I am going to medical school. It doesn't make you, you make you...so don't stress out.
539313
The SAT II in Bio is very easy.  I took AP biology and i though the SAT II was a joke.  your fine, its not that hard.
574777
Take the SAT prep, it is not that hard and as it´s name implies, it will prep you specially for the testing ENVIRONMENT, the standarized computerized time driven atmosphere is scary even at GMAT level, so the more you can practice and practice the better. If you can get a practice book or practice software it is worth the money to go out and buy it. Good Luck, and remember no matter what its just a TEST.
480496
I concur. Also with the ACT, but I'm starting to believe more in it now since I got a very high score, higher than what my grades would put me as, showing I am unmotivated :D I got suckered into an AP exam and I guess it's okay if you want to pay 80$ and die slowly yet surely when the questions keep coming and coming... I liked the SAT, though, because it was based more on grammar and literature, though I don't know a use for it.
992909
If you are going to take it again, make sure you are doing something different to prepare for it like taking a prep class, etc. If you don't, the test is designed so that your scores won't change that much given your same level of skills and effort. 30 points out of the scoring range of 600-2400 is not that much. Many colleges and scholarship committees take the average of all your scores. And as previously suggested, you may also want to consider taking the ACT as well. Good luck.
385067
It depends of what you want to do. If you are planning to go to a top college or a good college, most will require either the ACT or the SAT. Take the one you are more confident with. \nIf you are not applying to a college that requires either, then don't take it, what's the point?\nJust think carefully, and if you decide that you are applying to X college which doesn't require the SAT or ACT, be very certain that you'll go to X college, since many colleges/universities require one of the tests.
814536
no. and the "FCAT" is so freaking easy. each year gets easier for me. It just test your "skills"
582369
its only hard if you make it hard\n\nbe prepared to be very good in math and physics..
439094
Not too hard, but very demanding... i took the courses for a year and i am now a paralegal. You just have to be determined. It will be a lot of work, but it is not hard....