Unfair testing?

Asked by Feta (930) December 14th, 2013 from iPhone

I’m taking the ACT later today and I just want an opinion.

The math section gives you 60 minutes to complete 60 questions.
Sounds easy if the problems are basic but some are complex like drawing a grid and plotting or reading an extensive word problem.

In taking the practice test last night, I had to guess on a lot of the problems because I didn’t have enough time to go through a 5-step process.

I made a 23 on the timed version and a 28 on the untimed, so I know how to do the majority of the problems, it’s just the time.

My dad is way better at math than me and helped me study the practice tests and said he can’t even do 60 problems in an hour.

Also the science portion is not science at al. It’s simply giving the test taker a run-around question about a series of graphs and tables. Like 50 of these wordy questions in 35 minutes.

I don’t understand how this test can give an accurate score. And to think that colleges refer to it…it doesn’t actually measure what you know and your performance, it’s how many you can do in 55 minutes and then how many you can get lucky and guess correctly on in the last 5 minutes.

What’s your opinion?