General Test Questions
This section tests your understanding of standard, formal English.
What is the English Section.
This punctuation mark ends a complete thought when not in a direct quote or an interjection.
What is a period.
True of False: The ACT Math section requires and detailied knowledge of Trig and pre-Calc.
What is False.
The four types of stories you will be tested on
What are prose fiction, humanities, natural science and social sciences.
How many passages are in the Science section of the ACT.
What are 6 or 7 passages.
You should never do this with a question on the ACT, even when running out of time.
What is not answer the question.
There are seven of these which work together to connect independent clauses and they can be memorized with this mnemonic device.
What are FANBOYS.
True of False: The ACT Math section has no particular order of difficulty.
What is False. The math section goes from easy, medium, to difficult.
True or False a workable strategy is: You should start to answer questions before you have read the entire passage
What is "True".
What are the steps to the basic approach in the Science section?
What is 1. Work the Figures, 2. Work the Questions, 3. Work the answers
Which topic(s) in the Math section have the most questions?
What is pre-algebra and plane geometry
or
What is Algebra
The proper puctuation mark in the following example should be: "To cut through root vegetables like potatoes, rutagegas and parsnips, you should use a chef's knife( ) not a paring knife."
When your question in the Math section has a variable in it, you should.
What is Plugging In a number of your choice.
True or False: You should read EVERY passage fully in the Reading section at least twice.
What is False.
When looking at a graph in the Science section, where can you find your variables?
What are on the X and Y axis.
You should read the question, predict the answer and apply your choice in your test booklet on these sections.
What are the English, Reading and Science sections.
This punctuation mark should only be used after a complete sentence to introduce a list, quote or detailed explanation.
What is a colon.
From left to tright the order of operations to approach a problem known as PEMDAS?
What are: parenthesis, Exponents, multiply, divide, add and subtract.
FETCH questions are questions that include...
What are "According to the passage"; "states, indicates, offers"; short answers
How do you know if a passage is a "NOW" passage in the Science section. Name at least 2 reasons.
What are 1. It has relatively small tables and graphs, 2. mostly #s instead of words/symbols, 3. easy to spot relationships/trends, 4. short answers & they say "increase" or "decrease"
The items you should have on test day are:
What are a calculator, your ID, admission ticket, and pencils.
This punctuation mark should be used to separate two independent clauses and must also be used with a comma.
What is a semi-colon?
When you use numbers in the answer section of your Math problem to help solve the equation, that is called.
What is "Plugging in The Answer" (PITA).
8.5 minutes
What is the amount of time you have for each passage and its questions.
What do you do when you cannot find the answers in the tables or graphs of the science section?
What is read the paragraphs/passages.