ACT General Tips
Watch this video and be ready to answer 2 questions!
List 3 things to bring to your ACT test and 2 things to not bring.
Explain the math pacing strategy discussed in the video.
This is the pace recommended for this section.
What is 9 minutes per passage?
There are 5 total passages, for a total of 45 minutes for this section.
The Science test will ask you questions mostly about these topics.
What is analyzing graphs and data, synthesizing information, and reading charts?
This is the pace recommended for the 4 passages in this section.
What is 8 minutes, 8 minutes, 9 minutes, and 10 minutes?
Alvin the Chipmunk wants this for Christmas.
This is the name of Rudolph's dad.
Donner
These are the kinds of answers you should look for when you use POE.
What are the wrong answers?
What is Plug In The Answer and choose an answer choice from the middle to use when working out the question first?
What are the four punctuation marks you should especially review as mentioned in the video?
Watch this video and be ready to answer 1 question about the science test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZq-p8EH-g
What are the 2 tips mentioned to help you on the science test?
This is what a window is.
What is the specific line reference plus the 5 lines before and the 5 lines after it?
This is Ebenezer's last name.
Scrooge
The rabbit's name in Frosty the Snowman.
This is what LOTD means AND this is 1 example of when you should use it.
What is Letter Of The Day and you should use it whenever you absolutely do not know an answer OR when you are short on time and need to finish filling in every answer.
These 3 things are what you should do if you get to a Math problem that you are having a difficult time working out the answer.
What is skip it, come back to it later, and LOTD if you still cannot answer it?
The STOP punctuations include these 5 examples.
What are a period, semicolon, question mark, exclamation mark, and comma plus a FANBOYS conjunction?
Explain direct and indirect proportion.
What is
direct--the X and Y axises increase or decrease together
indirect--if X increases, Y decreases and vice versa?
These type of questions should be answered first in the Reading section.
What is Specific?
This reindeer's name starts with the letter B.
Blitzen
Jovie sings this song in Elf to help spread Christmas cheer.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
This is what POOD means and these two sections include passages that you should utilize this strategy.
What is Personal Order Of Difficulty and the Reading and Science sections?
These 4 numbers are good to use when you have to plug in your own choices for a question.
What are 2, 5, 10, and 100?
These are the 2 HALF-STOP punctuation examples.
What are colons and a single dash?
This is the approximate number of minutes you should spend on each science passage.
What is 5 minutes?
This section is 35 total minutes. You can expect to have from 6 - 7 total passages.
These type of questions should be answered last in the Reading section AND these are examples.
What are General questions and these include main idea, purpose, and theme type of questions?
Frosty the Snowman's nose is made out of this.
A button
The McAllister Family travels to this city in the first Home Alone movie.
Paris
True or False:
You have to answer all the questions on the ACT but you do not have to work out all the questions.
If false, provide the correct answer.
What is True?
Explain MADSPM when working with exponents.
What is when you multiply common bases, add the exponents; when you divide common bases, subtract the exponents; and when you raise the base to a power, you multiply exponents?
The 4 C's for the English section.
What are Consistent, Complete, Clear, and Concise?
Explain the plan for the Fighting Scientists.
What is work the questions for scientist 1 first, work the questions for scientist 1 and 2 next (how they compare and contrast), and so on?
What does passage mapping mean
AND
How can passage mapping help you answer questions?
Christmas Island is located in this ocean.
The Indian Ocean
Ralphie's little brother is this in A Christmas Story.
Randy