Data Representation, Research Summaries, or Conflicting Viewpoints
General ACT Tips
Frequently Used Words
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What are the two main components of the Science Reasoning Test?
PASSAGES and QUESTIONS
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What is the best way to get correct answers on this portion of the test?
Understand the passage!
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Read the passage, but don't spend all your time on it. The CHARTS are the main focus of the questions in this section.
Data Representation
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True or False: Answer ALL questions on the ACT, even if you have to guess.
True. You are much better off guessing than leaving an answer blank because there is no penalty for wrong answers on the ACT.
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What is COMPARE?
Show how things are the same
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How much time do you have to read 7 passages and answer 40 questions?
35 minutes?
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After you receive a data representation passage what should you do FIRST?
Analyze trends
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You will have to read and understand 2 or 3 experiments and their results. The questions in this section will ask you to compare data across the experiments.
Research Summaries
200
How long is too long to spend on any one question on the ACT?
A minute and a half. If you have spent that long on one question and still don't have an answer, move on.
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What does INFER mean?
think beyond the information given in a text and make links with 'unstated' ideas or information
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Name 2 of the 3 types of passages on the Science Reasoning Test
Data Representation, Research Summaries, Conflicting Viewpoints
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After reading a question you should ask yourself, "What is the ____________ _______________ asking?"
"What is the question asking?"
300
What three identifying words will be found in a Research Summary Passage?
Study, Experiment, Acitvity
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True or False: If a question looks complicated, it probably is. Don't even waste time skimming the material.
False. Some complicated questions ARE complicated, but many just LOOK complicated.
300
What does CONVEY mean?
to make something known; to pass on information
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Why is it important to memorize the instructions to the Science Reasoning Test and the other sections BEFORE the tes?
Because time is valuable on the ACT and knowing the instructions in advance will save you time.
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When it's time to answer the questions in the passage, it's important use strategies, what is a possible strategy to use?
Process of Elimination
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Questions on Data Rep passages and Research Summaries come from ____________________you can draw based on the trends.
Conclusions
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When you are unsure of how to answer a question, you may want to use the _______________ method, where you look at the answer choices and get rid of wrong answers until there is only one answer left.
Process of elimination
400
What does IDENTIFY mean?
to give the name or identifying characteristics of something
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True or False: You'll probably need a calculator to answer some of the questions on this portion of the test (but you won't have access to one)
False: You will not need a calculator to answer any of the questions on this portion of the test.
500
Why should you be able to answer the first questions after a passage easier than the last questions? (MOST OF THE TIME)
Because questions are ordered by increasing difficulty within each passage.
500
These tend to be the most straightforward, least complicated passages on the Science Reasoning Test.
Data Representation
500
____________ guessing means you work to eliminate answers, always getting rid of two choices for each question. You then guesses between the remaining choices and have a 50 percent chance of getting the correct answer.