Don’t get too excited, ACT science has little to do with your knowledge of biology, chemistry, natural science, or physics. In fact, you don’t need any knowledge of science to ace this section. ACT science should be renamed to “reading with charts and graphs.” You are given seven passages full of diagrams, data, tables, examples, [...]
Reading is a deceptive section on the ACT. It looks so simple—no vocabulary laden sentence completions like the SAT, just basic reading passages with questions. Yet the reading part of the ACT isn’t as simple as it first appears. In order to be an effective college admissions test, the ACT has to structure questions to [...]
Albert Einstein said, “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.” While Einstein’s mathematical woes were weighty, the challenge of accurately completing 60 ACT math questions in 60 minutes appears equally serious to most test takers. The ACT math section covers fundamental skills, algebra, geometry, and basic trigonometry. [...]
Section one of every ACT is a 45-minute English section with 75 questions testing students’ knowledge of grammar and usage. This part of the test is divided into five passages of 15 questions each. The idea is that each passage represents a piece of student writing and the questions help test takers make peer review [...]
Don’t you hate how confusing it is to figure out SAT or ACT scores? I deal with admissions tests every day and still have to think to convert from the SAT system (200 to 800 points on three sections – reading, math, and writing) to the ACT (a single score of 0-36). Today I’m going [...]
