Tips and Tricks for ACT

The first thing you need to know is what the ACT is. The ACT is a test to mark your knowledge from kindergarten to your senior year. The test has four sections: English, reading, math, and science. The different sections have different amounts of questions and time to answer the questions. English has 75 questions in 45 minutes. It marks your readiness and proficiency going into the workforce. 

Schools and jobs use these results to their advantage and, most of the time, to your own advantage. Colleges can send you scholarships depending on your score. Jobs can use your score to determine where you will best excel. Now, what if you get a score you aren’t happy with or you don’t think it was your best? You can retake the ACT up to 12 times. After retaking it, you will be given something called a super score. The superscore takes your highest scores from each. 

The English portion checks your ability to read difficult text, grammar, organization, sentence structure, etc.; the math questions are everything you’ve learned from kindergarten to 12th; you will be provided with a calculator. Science aims to measure your ability to solve problems, read graphs, identify hypotheses, and analyze conflicting hypotheses within time constraints, then scientific reasoning with questions after, using biology, earth and space science, physics, and chemistry. Then the reading portion focuses on standards usually found in the first years of college. Reading a range of different books will help with the English and reading portions. You have to have certain scores to do college classes, and you have to get an ACT score of 17, and for math, you have to get a score of 23. You can also get your score sent to 4 colleges of your choice. 

The most important things to know are that you need to make an account and register on myACT.org, you test on March 11th, and the make-up date is March 25th. Good luck!