Journal #36 - Preparing for the ACT

There are many preparations that one should do to prepare for the ACT exam. The night before the exam is a critical time to do a lot of preparing. You should always try to find and sharpen some number two pencils the night before. You should also go ahead and get your calculator ready as well as your admission ticket. The less stress that you have in the morning the better off you will be. Also make sure that you have a calculator that will be legal to use on the test. If your calculator is taken away from you before the test, this may fluster some people and will affect the performance that some may have on the test. Another good way to prepare for the test is to eat a well balanced breakfast in the morning that you take the test. If you do this, your brain will have enough food to do well on the test. I think that you should also make sure you have an alarm set to wake yourself up plenty early for the test. The longer you have to wake up before the test, the more alert you will be on the test thus making you a much more effective test taker. Also, arrive plenty early to your test site so that you are not walking in the room right before they take the test. Running late again will cause confusing and may also fluster a person on the test. The english test may be tough for someone like this because you might be unfocused. Focus is the key thing on the test. You have to put in your mind that the test is the most important thing at hand. Even if you had just had a family member died, if you want to do well you will have to drop that thought for the moment and focus on the test. Complete focus on the test will provide you with the minimal stupid mistakes that cost many people a score that they can be proud of.