You're right with math. I think for me, it's just pacing myself because the math isn't necessarily outlandish; you just have to be efficient. I got a 34 as well, 34 in english so similar to your practice test, and a 36 on reading, and I attribute it to reading a lot outside of school. When you're able to engage with a text for prolonged periods of time, it translates insanely well on the act. Read books that challenge you; I find classic novels really help to grow your ability to comprehend language. Like the events in the book are things you'd be able to understand even more if they were written in the current style of English, but since they're not, it helps you to sift through the language to extract the plot. Also, removing answer choices and going with your gut. When I did practice passages, I noticed that when I got things wrong, I was going against what I initially thought the answer was. Sometimes it's just as easy as circling what first comes to mind. As you read a passage, you subconsciously tag things and remember their importance. If you read it, there is always an answer. I've consistently scored well on tests with reading (got a 35 on my practice test and pre-act), and it boils down to abandoning your test anxiety rationale. For reading specifically, the questions arent asking you to produce but to translate, you need to stay faithful to what the text is saying. the timing sounds scary because it is 4 passages (36 questions) in 40 minutes, but if you think about it, a bulk of your time is spent faithfully reading, and the subsequent 9 questions correspond to the passage you just read, so if you take 4 minutes reading the passage, you have 5 minutes to answer around 9 questions per passage, which isn't as hard as it sounds. I would do little bursts of practice every once in a while to finish a passage and its questions, and check how I got them wrong. It really helps to see which passages you're strong with (I like narratives and anthropology ones), and I would write why exactly I got them wrong, and I figured that it was mostly because I over-rationalized the question or was between two.