My daughter is very good at math, and has been scoring very high on the math portion of the ACT. Unfortunately, her English and Reading section scores are really bringing her down. I don't want her to retake the ACT, or possibly just try the SAT instead, until this summer. She is stressed about scores a lot.
I'm not sure what to do. Her natural strengths lie in math. She's worked a bit with ACT test prep books, but they don't seem to help. Beyond that, I just feel like the race for the top of the high school GPA has students just doing rote learning and not really learning or learning how to be critical thinkers. She feels it is unfair that students who are not good at math can still score pretty well on the ACT because so much of the test is not math. She is a junior, and thus far has ACT comp of 28. Her GPA is well above 4.0 and she has a heavy AP load in math and science.
Any parents deal with this? I want to a) calm her fears but b) also help her do something that will make her feel like she did what she could even if the outcome is not as good as she'd like. I need some tips.
Also, are there schools that weigh the math score more heavily than others?
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