The only section on ACT with five multiple-choice answer choices.
What is the Math Test/Section?
100
The process of elimination will help you do this type of guessing to improve your raw score.
What is Educated Guessing?
100
This is a statement that two ratios are equivalent. Ex. a/b=c/d.
What is a proportion?
100
The middle value of a group of numbers when the numbers are arranged sequentially. (or the average of the two middle values if there is an even number of values in the group).
What is the Median?
100
A positive integer greater than 1 that can only be divided by 1 and itself. 1 and 0 are not this kind of numbers.
What are the content areas in the Math Test on the ACT?
200
With this kind of calculator, you can deal with exponents, work with fractions, graph various basic functions and convert linear equations into the form mx+b.
What is a graphing calculator?
200
This value represents the distance on the number line between a number and zero. It's always a positive value.
What is the absolute value of a number?
200
This way of writing quantities uses powers of 10 to express very large and very small numbers in a more concise form.
What is Scientific Notation?
200
These tests will give you great practice before the ACT: an advantage of coming to HS2!
What are ACT Diagnostic Tests?
300
The length of the ACT Math Test.
What is 60 minutes?
300
Don't waste time reading these on the day of the test. Memorize these as they will remain the same from one ACT to another.
What are Instructions?
300
This is the reverse of exponent and can be expressed using a radical sign or a fractional exponent.
What is the root of a number?
300
The value, or values, that appears most frequently in a given list of numbers.
What is Mode?
300
In this geometric figure, two sides out of three are equal and the two angles opposite those sides are equal.
What is an Isosceles Triangle?
400
Number of multiple-choice questions on the Math Test.
What is 60?
400
The absence of this enables to guess aggressively on the ACT if you are out of time or unable to figure out the solution.
What is Guessing Penalty?
400
For two triangles to be similar, their corresponding angles are equal and corresponding sides are proportional. Although the triangles will have the same shape, it is not necessary for similar triangles to have the same size.
What is the condition for similarity?
400
A sequence in which each successive number is a fixed amount more than the previous number.
What is an arithmetic sequence?
400
These are the three types of questions on the ACT Math Test.
What are basic problems, word problems and challenging problems?
500
You will score 36 as this score if your Math Raw Score is 60.
What is the Math Scale Score?
500
Get enough sleep, eat a good breakfast, be on time and come prepared with everything you will need.
What is "How to do your best on the day of the ACT?"
500
These triangles are equal in size and shape and their corresponding sides and angles are equal.
What are congruent triangles?
500
A sequence in which each successive number is some fixed multiple of the previous number.
What is a geometric sequence?
500
Number of ways an event can happen divided by the number of possible outcomes.