ACT Basics
This strategy works because there's no penalty for wrong answers.
What is Letter of the Day or fill in every bubble?
There are three steps in the English section's basic strategy:
What is 1) read through the underlined passage, 2) determine what's changing, and 3) do process of elimination.
Questions in this section are arranged by...
What is level of difficulty?
You should do all passages and questions in this order.
What is your personal order of difficulty?
What is true?
You would use this strategy to solve the following question:
What's the capital of Cyprus?
A) London
B) Tokyo
C) Nicosia
D) Wakanda
Process of Elimination (POE)
Generally, an idea must have these to be considered complete.
What is a subject and a verb?
You would use this strategy to solve this problem:
x3+3x2-4x-12 is equivalent to
A. (x+2)(x-2)(x+3)=
B. (x-2)2(x+3)=
C. (x+2)2(x-3)=
D. (x+2)(x-2)(x-3)=
E. (x+3)(x-12)=
What is plugging in?
The answers to these types of questions match the passage very closely. You should look for shorter questions with words like "According to the passage..." or "the passage states... "
What are fetch questions?
Roughly the amount of times you should allot to pre-writing, writing, and proofreading, respectively.
What is 10-12 minutes, 25-28 minutes, and 2-3 minutes, respectively?
Since all questions are worth a point, you should always do the easiest questions first.
What is your Personal Order of Difficulty (POOD)?
There are four reasons to use a comma on the ACT:
What is
1) before FANBOYS to link two complete ideas (as STOP punctuation)
2) to link anything except two complete ideas (or GO punctuation)
3) in a list of three or more
4) before and after unnecessay information
1. Identify the opportunity to use the strategy
2. Underline what the question is asking and label your answer choices.
3. Start with the middle choice and work through the steps of the problem.
4. When you find an answer that works, stop!
What is Plugging in the Answers (PITA)?
Question 5 on pg. 543
What is B?
Each of your body paragraphs should contain this information.
What is a topic sentence, example, analysis, and transition?
The amount of time allotted to the English, Math, Reading, Science, and Writing sections, respectively.
What is 45, 60, 35, 35, and 40 minutes?
Everywhere there was celebration, the war was over, and the troops would be coming home.
F. NO CHANGE
G. celebration; although
H. celebration:
J. celebration
What is H. celebration:
Paul takes a chemistry test with 30 questions. Correct answers are worth 5 points, incorrect answers are worth -3 points, and blank questions are worth 0 points. If he scores 63 on the test, which of the following could be the number of questions that he answers correctly?
A) 17
B) 18
C) 20
D) 22
E) 25
What is B). 18?
--infer, means, suggest, implies
-- longer answers
-- purpose or function of part or all of the passage
-- what the author or a person in the passage would agree or disagree with
--Characterize or describe all the passage
What is how to spot reasoning questions?
Roughly the outline your should follow for your essay.
What is an introduction, 2-3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion?
The items that you should have at your ACT exam are...
What is an ID, calculator, No. 2 pencils, and ACT registration ticket.
A correct answer in the English section of the ACT will be:
What is complete, consistent, clear, and concise?
F. 1/6
G. 0
H. 1
J. 2
K. 4
What is F). 1/6?
The basic strategies for both the science and reading sections are roughly the same. They both require you to...
What is work the questions and answers?
Reading basic strategy: 1) Read the blurb, 2) Work the passage, 3) with the questions, and 4) work the answers
Science basic strategy: 1) Work the figures, 2) work the questions, and 3) work the answers
You should strive to have this in your essay as it increases your argument/development.
What is a counterargument?