Overview
The length of the ACT Science section.
What is 35 minutes?
What are 3 steps?
Don't overthink the questions: You should use this to stay on the surface and answer the questions.
What is your instinct?
Synthesis questions focus on the process of science, also known as this, and experimental design.
What is scientific method?
Genes, alleles, and offspring are key vocabulary concepts in these type of science questions.
What is Biology?
The amount of questions on the Science section.
What is 40 questions?
The ACT Science is primarily a test of speed. You should spend about this amount of time per passage.
What is 5-6 minutes?
When reading these, you should "stay on the surface," consider that the question is asking, look at the groups being compared, look at what is being measured, and note the trends you see in the data.
What is graphs?
A variable that the experimenter sets is called this.
What is INDEPENDENT variable?
What is chemistry?
There are this many passages on the Science section.
What is 6 passages?
This is the first step to answering each question in the Science section. It involves picking out the key words in the question that will point you to the correct area of the figures or supporting paragraphs.
What is "jump to the questions?"
When analyzing data in Science questions, it is suggested to match words and draw these, in order to get to the point and answer the question.
What is arrows?
This is the variable that the experimenter measures but does not directly control.
What is DEPENDENT variable?
Force diagrams, kinetic & potential energy, electric charges, and circuits are key vocabulary concepts in this type of science question.
What is physics?
Most questions on the science test focus on the results in these.
What are tables and graphs?
This is the second step to answering each question in the Science section. When you hunt for key words in the passage or figures for clues, is called this.
What is "match with the passage or figure?"
On a multi-step problem, when you learn something new from a passage or figure, it is suggested that you do this.
What is take notes?
This type of variable is one that the experimenter keeps constant so that changes in it can't affect the outcome of the trial.
What is control variable?
These three states of matter are dependent on temperature.
What are gas, liquid, and solid?
These should guide you to the answer.
What are the questions?
This is the third step to answering each question in the Science section. When you match words in the passage that are relevant to the question, and cross out some answers that do not match, is called this.
What is "eliminate & choose?"
When looking for relationships in data on figures, you should use this to spot patterns.
What is a pencil?
This type of passage asks you to read, compare, and contrast different explanations for a phenomenon. They are clearly labeled Scientist 1, Scientist 2, etc.
What is Dueling Scientists?
This is a push or pull on an object.
What is force?