Can you have your ACT and SAT scores sent directly to you, THEN decide if you want to send them to colleges?
Also, will the college board SAT course prepare me for the ACT too?
Also, What’s the difference in the two tests? Should your mind-set be different during each separate test, or what?
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sweettart4852
09 Feb 2010
Before you take either test, they ask you what universities you want the scores sent to. You can leave these blank, but when you fill it out BEFORE the test, those 4 are free. If you have the college board send your scores after you get them, they charge about $9 per score sent.
The SAT is a reasoning test, and you don’t need to know anything special to take it, just practice answering the types of questions.
The ACT is more on things you have learned in school, so for math, there might be questions on trigonometry or algebra, nothing too specific, but you do need to know the formulas by heart.
I took an SAT practice course from the Princeton Review, and their method of eliminating answers helped me on the ACT, but not very much of the actual problem solving things helped me much.
I suggest you check the college board and ACT websites for some practice tests. Those above anything else can help you figure out which test is better for you.