Strategy questions are all about identifying this. The answer also happens to start with the same letter as Caitlin's favorite animal.
What is purpose.
100
These are the characteristics of "basic" science passages.
What are relatively few variables, few figures, and small amounts of text.
100
"Fighting Scientists" passages contain these key features.
What are two to five viewpoints, sometimes figures, always seven questions, and topics which are either obsolete or cutting edge.
100
Even the most seemingly complicated science passages are really only testing this.
What is common sense.
100
This is the "basic approach" for questions that test verbs.
What is (1) find the subject, (2) check the tense and past participle, and (3) make it concise (avoid "-ing" and passive voice!).
200
This is the "basic approach" for "EXCEPT/LEAST/NOT" questions.
What is mark each answer as true or false (correct or incorrect), and find the odd one out of the group.
200
This is the "basic approach" to "basic" science passages.
What is (1) work the figures, (2) work the questions, and (3) work the answers.
200
This is the "basic approach" to "Fighting Scientists" passages.
What is (1) read the introduction, (2) preview the questions, (3) do one hypothesis at a time, and (4) use your POOD, and do the questions on both or all hypotheses last.
200
These are three common sense rules that underlie the scientific method.
What is "have a baseline," "change only one variable at a time," and "make no assumptions."
200
The following sentence is in what type of voice:
"The villain was defeated by the hero."
What is the active voice.
300
Your ACT Manual describes "What?" questions as these.
What are questions that are a variation of a deletion question which ask what the passage will lose after the deletion.
300
These are the four Hogwarts houses listed in alphabetical order.
What is Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin.
300
These types of colleges tend to offer more substantial and helpful financial aid.
What are private colleges.
300
These are the only two situations on the Science test when you should or will have to read anything.
What is (1) when a question can't be answered by a figure alone and (2) when reading the introduction or sometimes entirety of a "Fighting Scientists" passage.
300
Pronouns can never be left as this on the ACT.
What is ambiguous.
400
Your ACT Manual describes "Where?" questions as these.
What are order questions or ones which test the correct, clear, and consistent placement of ideas.
400
This strategy proves time and again to be the most useful strategy for working the answers.
What is "process of elimination" or POE.
400
These are the two general rules for "Fighting Scientists" 2.0 passages.
What is "the longer the intro, the more important it is to all of the questions" and "the more scientists, the fewer questions on just one viewpoint."
400
These are three different summer enrichment programs we've discussed in session.
What are Wild River Academy, National Parks Teen Ambassador Program, and Discover Duluth at the College of St. Scholastica.
400
This pronoun replaces the subject in a sentence, is the correct answer the majority of the time, and also sounds like the noise a certain type of nocturnal bird makes.
What is "who."
500
In Caitlin's office, there are two posters, one with an astronaut on it and one with a raccoon on it. These posters say this.
What is "you don't fail until you quit" and "you never know what you can do until you try."
500
A bell curve graph represents data which does this.
What is increase and then decrease.
500
This is the college on which College Possible will host an overnight campus visit specifically for juniors this spring.
What is Central College.
500
This is what "direct opposites" means when working answers on the science test.
What is if two answers are opposites, the correct answer is most likely one of these.
500
This is the "basic approach" for questions which test apostrophe usage.
What is (1) expand it out if it's attached to a pronoun, (2) look at the next word if it's attached to a noun to ensure only a noun is being possessed, (3) use 's if it's attached to a singular noun, and (4) use s' if it's attached to a plural noun.