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Should you set a Score Goal?
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在本课程中，我要告诉你，我会介绍你如何让你如何为这一行为设置你的第一个得分目标。
And the title is, Should you set a score goal? I'll tell you right of the bat, I'm gonna answer yes.
Although there might be some exception for instance if you're really still just learning, you're just getting the hang of the structure of the ACT.
And you feel like you really haven't had the chance to have a practice test where you've been in a good testing mode. 而且你已经理解了测试的结构。那么它可能太早设定了目标。 But overall I think setting a goal is motivating. And I do think it results in more studying and more effective studying.
Here at Magoosh we found that a lot of students want to raise their score by five to ten points. And that is a great goal, a great long-term goal to have. And it is absolutely do-able for a lot of students. However, I don't think it's the best initial goal to set. I think because the ACT has so few numbers, you know the top score's a 36, that's not really a big number.
学生们没有意识到三点实际上有多少差异为你的百分点等级。 因此，让我们看看我们在每一个分数中添加三个点时会发生什么，我们将假装这是综合分数。 I started at 11 because through 1 through 10 are pretty rare, less than a percent and just to be fair you'll see I knocked out 36 also.
所以我们正在寻找99点的学生百分之处要得分。 Okay, so let's pretend I'm a student, I've taken two practice exams maybe and my composite score so far looks like it's gonna be a 20. And adding 3 points to that, I decide that I want my first score goal to be 23. So the question I'm posing here is, is that going to lead to much of a percentile increase?
And I'll be showing that in the third column here. I'm not gonna be showing you the percentiles. 我将向您展示我们正在寻找的百分位数的攀登。分数为20是大约50岁，低于50岁，高40岁。 那么当它最多23岁时会发生什么？嗯，它爬上约18个百分点，这非常大。
如果我们说我们之前有第48个百分位数，现在我们正在寻找第66百分位数。 Only added 3 points, really put myself in a new strata of scores are pretty impressive accomplishment. It doesn't mean that I have to stop there. If I have time, I should keep setting higher and higher goals.
但是18百分位数的增加是没有打喷嚏的。另一件事我会指出，只是因为它很有意思。 部分是因为它可能与您中的一些人有关，他们在最高或最低的分数范围内。 这就是当你在低端或高端添加三个点到分数时，您会发现百分位数变化并不像大。
那么为什么？嗯，这是因为人口在中间聚集。 那些做得分非常高或非常低的人，那些人分开，但很多人都在高青少年和二十几岁的人中得分。 And so just taking a couple little steps in that range is going to move you past a bunch of people.
Whereas if you have a very high score, or very low score, moving a couple points you're not going to be crossing over that many more people. 那么一个好的目标是什么？好吧，我认为三点是一个好目标，只是保持简单。 But a couple other suggestions I have, and you might just do what sounds right for you is you could set goals for each subject.
如果是这样，我会说你应该瞄准每个受试者的三到五分。 这将是您的总数或综合评分的四分之一。这只是给你更多的目标， 更多的事情要努力。具体而言，我鼓励您瞄准弱势地区的更大收益 more modest gains in your strong areas.
Let's pretend that these are the initial score based on a pre-test or maybe a test that's already been taken in actually testing environment. The student's going to retake the ACT, once to raise their score. And you can see the stronger areas for this student, were English, and Reading. The weaker,were Math and Science. So a nice technique is to try and add three points, a three point goal, in your strong areas.
和一个5点目标,in your lower areas. And so that would be what this student would now be shooting for 32, 25, 30, 28. 如果你的得分不是不同的，如果他们都很相似？也许你可以添加四个，你可以为每个人添加四个。 但我鼓励你这样做的原因并在你的弱势区域设定更大的分数守纲领，这是两倍。
First, if you're weak in an area there's probably a lot more you can learn. You have more room to grow. For instance, maybe you're weak in math because you haven't seen geometry in two years. It won't take that much review to boost your test scores. So from that angle, it's just the realistic thing to do.
You have more room to improve. Second and probably more important schools and scholarship committees 倾向于倾向于在他们的部分之间有更多平衡的学生。不是很多，我的意思是它不是睡眠的东西 它看起来很好圆润。不幸的是，很多学生所做的，我们知道这一点 students after take the test, is they tend to over study their strong areas.
Often that's because it's more enjoyable, it's less confusing. And so by setting a higher goal for your weaker areas, you're trying to attain a little bit more balance. And you're also trying to kind of discipline yourself to focus more on your weak areas. It's gonna be harder to blow off the science just knowing that you've set this pretty ambitious goal.
Now there are cases where sometimes students do this to a fault and it's not typical but I did have one student for instance. 她的数学很低。在所有的预测试中，她是数学的第11百分位数。 And she really wanted to get into some competitive schools. She was in the 70th percentile for reading.
I actually chose to have us pretty much ignore reading. We did a little bit of review. 我们专注于80％的数学努力。发生了什么，这真的很酷。 她实际上让她的数学高于50百分位数，从11百分位到第55百分位数。
所以这是伟大的，这很伟大，不幸的是她在阅读中失去了几个点。 所以如果我可以回去建议她，我会更加重视审查她的强大领域。 但我使用该示例，因为它实际上是一个非典型示例。我已经看到了过度研究他们的弱点的学生是非常罕见的 这是一个案例。
It totally paid off to go from 11 to 55 and I mean she was elated. And what she and I did it together and like encouraging you to do here is we just set small, incremental goals. We didn't initially set goals that would put her in the 55th percentile we just kept bumping up. Again, really push yourself in your weak areas.
并请记住，如果您需要指导，我们的学生帮助团队可以借给手。每当我们的书面解释或视频解释都没有这样做 you, let us know, for two reasons. Number one, for me as a teacher, I want to know so 无论是什么问题，我都可以回去解决问题。二号，我们希望能够直接帮助您。
Right now as I am recording this in 2018, we have over 40 student help specialists who are able to help ACT students. They enjoying helping students. We want you to have that experience. So anyway, I'm probably driving this point home more than I need to. But definitely reach out and ask for help if the video explanations aren't giving you as much information as you need.
教训外卖。设置缩写到综合评分约三到四个点的初始目标。 然后设置更雄心勃勃的目标，喜欢五分，为你的弱势地区。然后在你改善时， 继续碰撞你的目标，我会推荐两点增量。这可能是您的主题目标或您的综合。
You'll just have to gauge how quickly you're making progress and where you think you still have room to improve. 在您制作三到四点增益后保持两点递增。
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And you feel like you really haven't had the chance to have a practice test where you've been in a good testing mode. 而且你已经理解了测试的结构。那么它可能太早设定了目标。 But overall I think setting a goal is motivating. And I do think it results in more studying and more effective studying.
Here at Magoosh we found that a lot of students want to raise their score by five to ten points. And that is a great goal, a great long-term goal to have. And it is absolutely do-able for a lot of students. However, I don't think it's the best initial goal to set. I think because the ACT has so few numbers, you know the top score's a 36, that's not really a big number.
学生们没有意识到三点实际上有多少差异为你的百分点等级。 因此，让我们看看我们在每一个分数中添加三个点时会发生什么，我们将假装这是综合分数。 I started at 11 because through 1 through 10 are pretty rare, less than a percent and just to be fair you'll see I knocked out 36 also.
所以我们正在寻找99点的学生百分之处要得分。 Okay, so let's pretend I'm a student, I've taken two practice exams maybe and my composite score so far looks like it's gonna be a 20. And adding 3 points to that, I decide that I want my first score goal to be 23. So the question I'm posing here is, is that going to lead to much of a percentile increase?
And I'll be showing that in the third column here. I'm not gonna be showing you the percentiles. 我将向您展示我们正在寻找的百分位数的攀登。分数为20是大约50岁，低于50岁，高40岁。 那么当它最多23岁时会发生什么？嗯，它爬上约18个百分点，这非常大。
如果我们说我们之前有第48个百分位数，现在我们正在寻找第66百分位数。 Only added 3 points, really put myself in a new strata of scores are pretty impressive accomplishment. It doesn't mean that I have to stop there. If I have time, I should keep setting higher and higher goals.
但是18百分位数的增加是没有打喷嚏的。另一件事我会指出，只是因为它很有意思。 部分是因为它可能与您中的一些人有关，他们在最高或最低的分数范围内。 这就是当你在低端或高端添加三个点到分数时，您会发现百分位数变化并不像大。
那么为什么？嗯，这是因为人口在中间聚集。 那些做得分非常高或非常低的人，那些人分开，但很多人都在高青少年和二十几岁的人中得分。 And so just taking a couple little steps in that range is going to move you past a bunch of people.
Whereas if you have a very high score, or very low score, moving a couple points you're not going to be crossing over that many more people. 那么一个好的目标是什么？好吧，我认为三点是一个好目标，只是保持简单。 But a couple other suggestions I have, and you might just do what sounds right for you is you could set goals for each subject.
如果是这样，我会说你应该瞄准每个受试者的三到五分。 这将是您的总数或综合评分的四分之一。这只是给你更多的目标， 更多的事情要努力。具体而言，我鼓励您瞄准弱势地区的更大收益 more modest gains in your strong areas.
Let's pretend that these are the initial score based on a pre-test or maybe a test that's already been taken in actually testing environment. The student's going to retake the ACT, once to raise their score. And you can see the stronger areas for this student, were English, and Reading. The weaker,were Math and Science. So a nice technique is to try and add three points, a three point goal, in your strong areas.
和一个5点目标,in your lower areas. And so that would be what this student would now be shooting for 32, 25, 30, 28. 如果你的得分不是不同的，如果他们都很相似？也许你可以添加四个，你可以为每个人添加四个。 但我鼓励你这样做的原因并在你的弱势区域设定更大的分数守纲领，这是两倍。
First, if you're weak in an area there's probably a lot more you can learn. You have more room to grow. For instance, maybe you're weak in math because you haven't seen geometry in two years. It won't take that much review to boost your test scores. So from that angle, it's just the realistic thing to do.
You have more room to improve. Second and probably more important schools and scholarship committees 倾向于倾向于在他们的部分之间有更多平衡的学生。不是很多，我的意思是它不是睡眠的东西 它看起来很好圆润。不幸的是，很多学生所做的，我们知道这一点 students after take the test, is they tend to over study their strong areas.
Often that's because it's more enjoyable, it's less confusing. And so by setting a higher goal for your weaker areas, you're trying to attain a little bit more balance. And you're also trying to kind of discipline yourself to focus more on your weak areas. It's gonna be harder to blow off the science just knowing that you've set this pretty ambitious goal.
Now there are cases where sometimes students do this to a fault and it's not typical but I did have one student for instance. 她的数学很低。在所有的预测试中，她是数学的第11百分位数。 And she really wanted to get into some competitive schools. She was in the 70th percentile for reading.
I actually chose to have us pretty much ignore reading. We did a little bit of review. 我们专注于80％的数学努力。发生了什么，这真的很酷。 她实际上让她的数学高于50百分位数，从11百分位到第55百分位数。
所以这是伟大的，这很伟大，不幸的是她在阅读中失去了几个点。 所以如果我可以回去建议她，我会更加重视审查她的强大领域。 但我使用该示例，因为它实际上是一个非典型示例。我已经看到了过度研究他们的弱点的学生是非常罕见的 这是一个案例。
It totally paid off to go from 11 to 55 and I mean she was elated. And what she and I did it together and like encouraging you to do here is we just set small, incremental goals. We didn't initially set goals that would put her in the 55th percentile we just kept bumping up. Again, really push yourself in your weak areas.
并请记住，如果您需要指导，我们的学生帮助团队可以借给手。每当我们的书面解释或视频解释都没有这样做 you, let us know, for two reasons. Number one, for me as a teacher, I want to know so 无论是什么问题，我都可以回去解决问题。二号，我们希望能够直接帮助您。
Right now as I am recording this in 2018, we have over 40 student help specialists who are able to help ACT students. They enjoying helping students. We want you to have that experience. So anyway, I'm probably driving this point home more than I need to. But definitely reach out and ask for help if the video explanations aren't giving you as much information as you need.
教训外卖。设置缩写到综合评分约三到四个点的初始目标。 然后设置更雄心勃勃的目标，喜欢五分，为你的弱势地区。然后在你改善时， 继续碰撞你的目标，我会推荐两点增量。这可能是您的主题目标或您的综合。
You'll just have to gauge how quickly you're making progress and where you think you still have room to improve. 在您制作三到四点增益后保持两点递增。
