Basic Strategies
You should do this the night before the ACT
What is get a good night's sleep?
In the spring of 1999, a university student--also an avid hunter--stalked wild turkeys in the woods.
A. NO CHANGE
B. spring, of 1999, a university
C. spring of 1999 a university
D. spring of 1999; a university
What is A. NO CHANGE ?
Giving non- human things human characteristics
What is personification?
The amount of questions in the reading test
What is 40?
The required version of your name on the ACT
What is your legal name?
The only evidence of the species survival before its rediscovery at the end of the century was an unconfirmed recording of its distinctive call in 1967.
A. NO CHANGE
B. species' survival
C. survival of the species
D. surviving species
What is B. species' survival ?
Making a reference to an outside piece of literature or event
What is an allusion?
The amount of questions in the English test
What is 75?
Questions that are meant to take up time and slow you down.
What are time-wasters?
As a member of the University of Rome faculty, she was assigned to the city's insane asylums to experiment with the patients' capacity to learn: a task considered menial by medical professionals at the time.
A. NO CHANGE
B. learn, a
C. learn a
D. learn
What is B. learn, a ?
Comparison of two things, stating that one thing is the other, without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The amount of time on the reading test
What is 35 minutes?
The strategy in which you choose one letter to mark last-minute answers on the test.
What is 'the letter of the day'?
In the children's house, Montessori realized how ready children learn from their environment.
A. NO CHANGE
B. children, readily
C. children ready
D. readily children
What is D. readily children ?
A line reference question
A. What seems to be the author's main objective?
B. What best supports the claim that the protagonist is foolish?
C. What piece of evidence best supports the author's claim?
D. In lines 67-87 the author most likely means:
What is D. In lines 67-87 the author most likely means ?
The amount of time on the English test
What is 45 minutes?
The test-taking strategy in which you narrow down your choices of answer by removing less likely answers
What is process of elimination?
Comparison of a child's development to universal standards and norms is discouraged.
A. NO CHANGE
B. childs' development
C. developing child
D. child that is developing
What is A. NO CHANGE?
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperpole?
The amount of time you should spend on an English question if you want to answer them all
What is 35 seconds?