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English
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Grammar/Punctuation
ACT Test-Taking Strategy
Mystery
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"Every winter, thousands of visitors, come to southern Florida." A. NO CHANGE B. thousands, of visitors C. thousands of visitors D. thousands of visitors'
What is: C
100
What is the formula for the area of a triangle?
What is: 1/2 (base x height)
100
Add in the missing commas: Ashley Smith a well-known defense attorney retired yesterday.
What is: Ashley Smith, a well-known defense attorney, retired yesterday.
100
How much time should you spend on each question, approximately ?
What is: One Minute
100
STRATEGY Do ACT questions in each section get progressively harder, or are they mixed/random?
What is: Progressively harder
200
What does it mean to "omit" a word from the phrase?
What is: Remove/Delete/Take it Out!
200
A bag contains 3 red balls and 2 purple balls, all identical except for color. The first ball drawn from the bag is red. What is the probability that the second ball drawn from the bag is red? a. 1/5 b. 1/4 c. 2/5 d. 1/2 e. 3/4
What is: d , 1/2
200
This separates two complete sentences that are, however, closely linked.
What is: Semi-colon
200
List the four items you MUST bring with you to the ACT test.
What is: -Pencil -Calculator -Photo ID -Registration Ticket (Also bring water, a snack, and DON'T TOUCH YOUR CELL PHONE!)
200
GRAMMAR This can be used to indicate that a list, quotation or summary is about to follow.
What is: Colon
300
I am unsure if this baking pan is (ours/our's) or (yours/your's)
What is: ours / yours
300
Of the 804 graduating seniors in a certain high school, approximately 2/5 are going to college and approximately 1/4 of those going to college are going to a state university. Which of the following is the closest estimate for how many of the graduating seniors are going to a state university? a) 80 b) 90 c) 160 d) 200 e) 320
What is: a / 80 1/4 OF 2/5 OF 804 students
300
This is used for contractions and also shows possession or ownership.
What is: Apostrophe
300
What two steps should you take if you don't know the answer to an ACT question?
What is: Process of elimination (narrow down your options) and then Guess!!!
300
MATH What is the formula for the volume of a cube?
What is: (length of the side) ^ 3
400
What punctuation is required in this sentence, and where? "Molly is always complaining about how cold her car is in the morning maybe she should purchase an electric car starter."
What is: Semi-colon (between morning & maybe)
400
3. If 4x+3 = 9x-4, then x=? A. 7/5 B. 5/7 C. 7/13 D. 1/5 E. -1/5
What is: a / X= 7/5
400
I wish the rain didn’t (affect/effect) my mood so much; I’ve felt sad for days.
What is: Affect
400
How many minutes is the math section of the ACT?
What is: 60 Minutes
400
MATH A marketing company expects 6% of people to return surveys sent to them in the mail. Of the surveys they actually get back, 1/3 are unreadable. If the company wants to receive 200 readable surveys, how many must they mail out? a) 900 b) 1200 c) 3300 d) 3333 e) 5000
What is: e / 5000
500
What is the most logical way to order these three sentences? " [1] Often, my brother and I joined our mother on her adventures into tidal lands. [2] At the very low tides of the full moon, when almost all the water was sucked away, we found the hideaways where crabs, snails, starfish, and sea urchins hid in order not to be seen. [3] Sometimes we would dig with shovels in the mud, where yellow and white worms lived in their leathery tunnels." a) NO CHANGE b) 2, 1, 3 c) 2, 3, 1 d, 3, 1, 2
What is: a / NO CHANGE The best answer is A because it is the only choice that places Sentence 1 as the introduction to the paragraph. There is no other logical placement for Sentence 1 because it provides information that the narrator and the brother are joining the mother on their "adventures into tidal lands." If either Sentence 2 or Sentence 3 introduced the paragraph, the reader would be confused.
500
What is the formula for the circumference of a circle?
What is: Pi x Diameter
500
My (mother and father's/mother's and father's) favorite vacation spot is Gulf Shores, Alabama.
What is: mother and father's
500
On the ACT Plus Writing, does your essay score affect your composite score, or get scored separately?
What is: Separately! "Taking the ACT Plus Writing will provide you and the schools to which you have ACT report scores with two additional scores. When you take both the English Test and the Writing Test, you'll receive a Writing subscore (out of 12) and a Combined English/Writing score (out of 36). You will also receive selected comments about your essay from one of the readers. An image of your essay will be available to your high school and the colleges to which you have ACT report your scores from that test date."
500
ENGLISH "Even as a child, Williams loved to prepare food, and as a young adult he refined his cooking skills at the (prestigiously acclaimed) Culinary Institute of America." a) NO CHANGE b) famed, renowned, and notable c) luscious d) prestigious
What is: d / prestigious