ACT Jeopardy

ACT English

100

How many questions are on the ACT English test?

75 Questions

200

How long do you have to complete the ACT English section?

45 minutes

300

What is an example of end stop punctuation? What is an example of half-stop punctuation?

End stop: Period, exclamation point, question mark

Half stop: Comma, semi-colon, colon, dash

400

What does FANBOYS stand for? 

For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

500

Insert commas and other punctuation as necessary:

She went to school on Thursday the doctor on Friday and work on Saturday

She went to school on Thursday, the doctor on Friday, and work on Saturday. 

ACT Math

100

How many questions are on the ACT math section?

60 questions

200

How many minutes do you have to complete the ACT math section?

60 minutes

300

A bag contains 10 pieces of flavored candy; 4 lemon, 3 strawberry, 2 grape, and 1 cherry. One piece of candy will be randomly picked from the bag. What is the probability the candy picked is not grape flavored? 

4/5 

400

Factor x²+8x-48

(x+12)(x-4) 

500

A 5-inch-by 7-inch photograph was cut to fix exactly into a 4-inch-by 6-inch frame. What is the area, in square inches, of the part of the photograph that was cut off?

11 in²

ACT Reading

100

How many questions are there on the ACT Reading section?

40 questions

200

How many minutes do you have to complete the ACT Reading section?

35 minutes

300

What are the four types of passages on the ACT Reading section?

Prose Fiction, Social Science, Humanities, Natural Science

400

How do you skim correctly?

Read the entire first paragraph, the first and last sentence of the body paragraphs, and the entire last paragraph

500

How many passages on the test are fiction? How many passages are nonfiction? 

Only prose fiction is fiction; the other three (social science, humanities, natural science) are nonfiction.

ACT Science

100

How many questions are there on the ACT Science section?

40 questions

200

How many minutes do you have to complete the ACT Science section?

35 minutes

300

Which science passage is generally the easiest?

Data representation

400

What are the 3 types of science passages?

Data representation, research summaries, conflicting viewpoints

500

True or false: the questions go in order of difficulty following each passage?

True

Wildcard

100

What is the highest score you can get on the ACT?

36

200

What is the average ACT score in Ohio?

21.8

300

What is the highest you can score on the ACT writing section?

12; it is scored from 2-12

400

What is one difference between the ACT and the SAT?

ACT only has one math section; SAT has two.

SAT has a calculator and non-calculator math section. 

ACT has a science section; SAT does not. 

500

What is one benefit of doing well on the ACT? 

Scholarships (free money), admission into more selective colleges, ability to start in college level classes when you begin college