when do you take your SAT/ACT tests in high school?

Of course, just work hard and have some good habits. It's good that you want to study, but you don't have to study constantly 24/7! Just make sure you focus in class when you are listening to the teacher. Take good notes. Do all of your homework. Get a good nights rest every school night and just study for a few hours if needed. Plus, have a good breakfast before school to help with your focus! A good diet can help you a lot! Of course, you can do better! Sure you messed up freshman year, but it's really good that you realize now that you need to do much better. Just keep your eye on the goal and aim for that wonderful college that you want to go to! :)

Yes, you can improve; you just have to be determined enough to make the change. Apply yourself; you can do it. Your sophomore and junior years are the most important years for you academically. As for taking your SAT and ACT tests, you take those your Junior and Senior years. I advise that you take it as many times as you can because the more you take it and become familiar with the questions, the better you'll do on those tests. If your school offers the PSAT (half of an SAT) for you to take your sophomore year and junior year, I would take that too so you can get a sense of the questions. Being accepted into a good college or university, I would have to say most likely. Just stay active in school and keep up those grades. It will be tough, but it is attainable. Good things come from hard work. :)

Hope I've helped and good luck! You can do it! :)

First of all, it is recommended that you take the SAT/ACT in your junior year. This is because by then you would have obtained all the knowledge and skills from classes to do well on the test. For example, on the math section, it tests Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II. Plus, the writing section includes an essay. If you're working really hard in your classes and giving it your all, then you will develop good reading, writing, and math skills by the time the test comes.

The biggest advice that I can give you is your study habits in general. For classes, study everyday and do all of the work. Also, write down any questions you have from homework and ask questions in class as soon as you don't understand something. Go in for tutoring because it shows your teachers you're trying and you'll get more help that you can't get in a class full of other students. Smart kids go to tutoring too.

For the SAT/ACT, the key is to TAKE PRACTICE TESTS!!! I suggest buying or checking out from the library a book called: 11 practice SAT tests by the Princeton Review. You can take 11 full length practice SAT tests and 1 practice PSAT test. Then, they give you an explanation for each question. It's awesome!

Most importantly, know what your weaknesses are from the test and focus on those! If it's critical reading, read more often. Try reading literature books or adult level books. Read a variety of things such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Science textbooks, literature, etc. If it's vocabulary, go to sparknotes 1000 most common SAT words and memorize the words with flashcards--this seriously helped me. If it's math, review concepts you don't get and take even more math practice sections. If it's writing, review all grammar rules from the beginning, and ask your english teachers to help you with essay writing.

You can definitely still get accepted to a good college if you seriously want this and use your resources. Don't forget about extracurricular activities! They want to see something you actually care about, stay committed to each year, and show leadership roles in. Start looking at the colleges you're interested in and contact them for more info.

My freshman year, I messed up too. But in tenth grade I made a complete 360 change in academics, leadership, earning teachers' respect, and working hard. I wanted to do good more than anything in the world. If you can make a great change over the next 3 years and you want it, colleges will see that. You can even write them a note with your application, explaining how you've matured and become a better student and you're serious now. I'm now at one of the top schools in the country and about to start college. You can do it!!!

Most students take the PSAT in 10th or sometimes 11th grade. (That's the pre-SAT and if you do well on it, colleges will start contacting you and you might be eligible for scholarships.) If you've messed up, you might want to wait until early 11th grade to take it.

The SAT and ACT can be taken at various times throughout the school year. Most students take them as juniors, but some people take them in 12th grade. Most college applications are due sometime between early December and mid-Spring, so taking the tests early enough to get the results back before the application deadline will make things easier. But people apply for college all the time without having the test results yet. They just notify the college or university that the test results will be coming. (And you can take those tests more than once, so if you mess up, you can take them again. If you really want to do well on them, not only do you need to study hard for your classes, but you should get test practice books to work through--most bookstores and libraries carry a variety of test practice books.)

And, yes, you can make up for one bad year, but it will take a lot of determination....

Good luck

SAT and ACT are both for people who want to get into undergraduate school, you have to take one of them. Some people take both because they might be better at the ACT than the SAT or vice versa, (for example the SAT focuses more on vocab while the ACT focuses more on grammar). You have to take the GMAT, LSAT, IT, MCAT for graduate school (if you choose to go to graduate school) and you only have to take the one you majoring in. So if you're planning on being a lawyer you would take the LSAT, and you wouldn't take the MCAT. I think you can take the SAT and ACT at any grade but most do it in their eleventh year. And they are seperate from your gpa.

You are going to sending in your transcripts from the end of your junior year to colleges. So you have two years to get your grades up. You take the ACT/SAT exam your second semester junior year. plan on taking it twice. most students score higher the second time.

The point isn't to study all the time. The point is to study efficiently for you. to use study skills and organizational skills. to get help before your grade go down. To study with other students from the same classes.