how to get a 36 on the ACT science section

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​The science section has a lot of data interpretation—usually bio or chem related but sometimes physics as well.

I suggest that you read the prompt, make sure you understand what the data represents, and if there is more than one experiment w/ variable manipulations, make sure you can easily differentiate which is which.

One science passage provides 3 or 4 student perspectives on some topic, and you have to analyze their differences and similarities and their relation to the data, so highlight/annotate key points of each perspective in order to not have to read the entire perspective every time you get a question about it.

Sometimes though, they ask you about background knowledge that isn’t provided in the data, so you should know your basic bio concepts.

The science section also is mostly direct and you just have to look at the data to answer the questions.