Your eyes skim over the passages and charts, but they start to blur and you can’t make sense of it, you are told only five minutes remain on the ACT, so already mentally exhausted, you randomly fill in the last few dots.
“I psyched myself out, but it was fine for me,” Junior Shaila Naegele said.
For some students the hardest part of the test is trying not to set themselves up to fail. They might already expect it to be hard and that they’re going to do badly, so they freak out.
“I tried not to have any expectations because it was my first time taking it, but the math was much easier than I thought it would be,” junior Kirsten Prindle.
Some students feel that the math section was the hardest, though most students had one area that they were not so good on.
“I hate the ACT, I get good grades, yet this decides if I get scholarships or not,” junior Taylor Deboer said.
While many students don’t enjoy taking the ACT, most feel it is a necessary evil of sorts.
“It’s about the same level of hardness every time, but the math is always the hardest for me,” senior Faith Kohl.
Some people that have taken it twice say that it doesn’t get easier or harder, it stays at the same level of difficulty.
“I promise that no one is ever excited to take the ACT,” junior Michaela Von Lintel said

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