TOPS
Basic Strategies
Question Types
Genres
Miscellaneous
100
What is the minimum GPA you must have to get ANY LEVEL of TOPS?
2.5
100
This is a strategy in which you eliminate wrong answers to improve your chances of getting the right answer.
Process of Elimination
100
What kind of question is this: "The author would most likely agree with the statement..."
inference
100
You might find a passage about evolutionary biology or DNA in this passage.
What is natural science?
100
True or False: You lose points for selecting the wrong answer on the ACT.
False
200
This is the award you receive if you get TOPS Opportunity.
tuition at a public school
200
True or false: You are penalized for guessing on the ACT.
FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
200
What kind of question is this: In line 35, the word "horrible" most likely means...
What is vocabulary?
200
You might read an excerpt from a memoir or an essay about training to become a ballerina in this passage.
What is humanities?
200
This is how many minutes you have to take the Reading section of the ACT.
35
300
These are the awards you get if you achieve TOPS Performance.
tuition +$400
300
What do well call the strategy of ordering the passages in the order in which we want to read them?
Numbering the passages
300
What kind of question is this: The best title for this passage would be...
What is main idea?
300
You might read about criminal minds or how the Internet is affecting the lives of adults in this passage.
What is social science?
300
The test starts at this time.
8 am
400
This is the Act score you must have to get TOPS Honors.
27
400
This is the strategy where you make notes in the margins and on the passages to mark important details.
What is annotation?
400
What kind of question is this? The author would most likely agree with the following statement...
inference
400
You might read an excerpt from The Scarlet Letter or Brave New World in this passage.
What is prose fiction?
400
This is the order of the tests on the ACT.
English Math Reading Science
500
True or false: you can use TOPS at a private college or university in Louisiana.
TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
500
What does POOD stand for?
punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure
500
What kind of question is this: According to lines 77-99, the main reason so many seahorses are dying is...
detail
500
True or false: Selections of poetry could be included in the prose fiction passage.
FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!
500
ACT has this section on the test but the SAT doesn't have it.
What is science?
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