ACT English
Question:
How many questions are on the ACT English test?
50 questions.
Question:
How many questions are on the ACT Math test?
45
Question:
How many questions are on the ACT Reading test?
36
How many questions are on the ACT Science test?
40
How many writing prompts are on the ACT Writing test?
One prompt.
DAILY DOUBLE! Read this sentence:
Maya wanted to join the club, however she was already committed to another activity.
What skill is being tested when a student must determine the correct punctuation or sentence structure?
Conventions of Standard English, specifically punctuation and sentence structure.
Question:
What is the largest overall content category on ACT Math?
Answer:
Preparing for Higher Math, which makes up about 80% of the test.
Question:
What are the three major Reading reporting categories?
Answer:
Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, and Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Name the three main types of scientific information or passage formats students may encounter.
Data Representation, Research Summaries, and Conflicting Viewpoints.
How much time do students have to complete the ACT Writing test?
40 minutes.
What are the three major areas tested on ACT English?
Production of Writing, Knowledge of Language, and Conventions of Standard English.
Question:
Name two of the five areas included in Preparing for Higher Math.
Number & Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, Statistics & Probability.
DAILY DOUBLE!
Read this short passage:
Maya had planned to leave before sunset, but when she saw the storm approaching, she decided to stay another night.
Why does Maya decide to stay?
What type of Reading skill is primarily being tested?
Answer: She saw the storm.
Key Ideas and Details. The student must use information from the passage to understand a cause-and-effect relationship.
What three major skills are measured on the ACT Science test?
Interpretation of Data, Scientific Investigation, and Evaluating Scientific Arguments and Models with Evidence.
DAILY DOUBLE!
Your ACT Writing prompt presents this issue:
Should schools require students to take a financial literacy course?
Your task is to:
A. Choose one perspective and only summarize it
B. Develop your own position and analyze its relationship to at least one other perspective
C. Explain both sides without taking a position
D. Write a five-paragraph essay regardless of what the prompt asks
B. Develop your own position and analyze its relationship to at least one other perspective.
Question:
Which two English categories make up the largest portions of the test?
Answer:
Production of Writing and Conventions of Standard English, each about 38–43% of the test.
Question:
About what percentage of ACT Math focuses on Integrating Essential Skills?
Answer:
About 20%.
Question:
A Reading question asks you to determine why an author used a particular word or phrase and how it affects the passage. Which category is this?
Answer:
Craft and Structure.
A student looks at a graph showing plant growth at different temperatures and must identify a trend. What ACT Science skill is being tested?
Interpretation of Data.
Name the four areas used to score the ACT Writing essay.
Ideas and Analysis; Development and Support; Organization; Language Use and Conventions.
Question:
A question asks whether a sentence should be moved, deleted, or revised to make a passage clearer and better organized. What type of ACT English skill is being tested?
Answer:
Production of Writing.
DAILY DOUBLE!
Question:
A movie theater charges $8 for a ticket plus $2 for each snack. Which equation represents the total cost for buying 3 snacks?
Bonus: What Math skills could this involve?
Answer:
C = 8 + 2(3)
Bonus - Algebra and modeling.
Some ACT Reading questions require you to connect information from two related texts. What skill is being tested?
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Daily Double
TemperaturePlant Growth
10°C 2 cm
20°C 5 cm
30°C 8 cm
40°C 7 cm
Based only on the data, at which temperature did the plant show the greatest growth?
Bonus: What ACT Science skill is being tested?
30°C
Bonus: Interpretation of Data.
A student chooses one of the three perspectives given in the prompt as their own position. Can they do that?
Yes. A student may adopt one of the provided perspectives or develop a different perspective. The essay must develop the student's position and analyze its relationship to at least one other perspective.
Question:
The Enhanced ACT English test contains 50 questions. How many are scored questions and how many are field-test questions that do not count toward the student's score?
Answer:
40 scored questions and 10 field-test questions.
The Enhanced ACT Math test has 45 total questions. How many are scored and how many are field-test questions?
Answer:
41 scored questions and 4 field-test questions.
The Enhanced ACT Reading test has 36 total questions. How many are scored questions and how many are field-test questions?
27 scored questions and 9 field-test questions.
The Enhanced ACT Science test has 40 total questions. How many are scored questions and how many are field-test questions?
34 scored questions and 6 field-test questions.
A student receives an ACT Writing prompt with a complex issue and three perspectives. The student disagrees with all three perspectives. Can the student create an entirely different perspective?
Yes. The student may adopt one of the provided perspectives or develop a completely different one.