Seniors Face Off Against the ACT

Seniors prepare for the ACT. Photos by Jin Yup Jung '14. Copyright Red Cloud Indian School.

Seniors Face Off Against the ACT

By Jin Yup Jung '14

Today most of the senior class is taking the ACT. It will be a great chance for some students, who have prepared for ACT for a long time, to score well to help get into a great college. On the other hand, it will a long four hours with some difficult questions and problems. 

The Class of 2014 also had an opportunity to take the ACT last year after a spring blizzard. Senior Jaycherie Little performed extremely well on her first ACT. “I’m shooting for 28 or 29,” Jaycherie said. “But the problem is the math. I’m weak in math.” Since most seniors have worked hard in not only English classes, but also Math and Science classes, it is expected that they will get a better score at this time.

The greatest thing was that students could perceive their strengths and weaknesses on ACT while they were working in classes, so they could work on their deficiencies, and they could improve their worst scores on ACT.  Many students have a fear of confronting the math. “In math, students need to not get slowed down by problems that they do not know. They need to get to all the questions, so they can answer all the questions that they do know and then go back to the questions they are not sure about,” said math teacher Clay Leonard. 

Also, in the science area, many students find it difficult understanding some science terms, which are unfamiliar to students, and they will confuse students while taking the test. “In science, remember the information is there already, you just need to find it. It’s about science reasoning, not science facts,” said science teacher Wendell Gehman.

Good luck to the seniors as they toil in the library today.