The amount of raw score points you lose for answering a question incorrectly
What is zero?
100
This is the amount of time students should take to complete each of the 5 passages on the ACT English section.
What is 9 minutes?
100
This is the total number of questions on the math section of the ACT
What is 60?
100
This is the number of questions on the Reading section of the ACT.
What is 40?
100
This is the number of questions on the Science section of the ACT.
What is 40?
200
The only section on which the questions are arranged in order of difficulty
What is the math section?
200
ACT English questions can be split up into these two major question types.
What are Usage questions and Rhetoric questions?
200
This is the math technique you can use any time you see variables in the answer choices.
What is plugging-in numbers?
200
This is the amount of time you're given on the Reading section of the ACT.
What is 35 minutes?
200
This is the amount of time you have to complete the Science section.
What is 40 minutes?
300
This strategy, whereby students can use logic and reasoning to whittle down their answer choices, is an excellent one to use when students don't know exactly what the correct answer is right off the bat.
What is process of elimination?
300
Of "its," "it's," and "its'," the one that doesn't exist in the English language and should be eliminated whenever you see it in an answer choice.
What is its' (I-T-S-apostrophe)?
300
Seven times this number is four more than 38
What is six?
300
This is the reading passage you should do first.
What is the one you're most comfortable with?
300
Though it can be intimidating, the Science section is actually the THIS section on the entire test.
What is the easiest?
400
Because rushing through a section just to get it done will usually result in a multitude of careless errors, students should instead try to do this.
What is get as many questions correct as possible (not just get as many questions done as possible)?
400
One acceptable way to join two independent clauses is with a comma immediately followed by one of these conjunctions.
What are FANBOYS conjunctions (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)?
400
This is the absolute value of negative three plus one.
What is two?
400
These are the reading questions you should do last
What are EXCEPT, LEAST, and NOT questions?
400
This is the Science passage you should do last.
What is the Conflicting Hypothesis passage?
500
This is the most important thing you should do when preparing for the ACT
What is apply yourself?
500
On the ACT, this punctuation mark is used in basically the same exact way as a period, so much so that whenever you see an answer choice with a period and another one with one of these punctuation marks, you can eliminate both of them because they're effectively the same thing.
What is a semicolon?
500
The smallest number in a set of five consecutive integers whose sum is 145 is this number.
What is 27?
500
This is the last step you should take before looking at the answer choices on any reading question.
What is come up with your own answer in your head?
500
This is one of the simple ways you can spot the Conflicting Hypothesis passage.
What is there will be two or more hypotheses in the passage OR two or more students/scientists OR no charts or graphs?