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Title: ACT Introduction


1
ACT Introduction
  • The ACT is made up of 4 individual
  • tests that are multiple choice.

English
Mathematics
Reading
Science Reasoning
It takes 3 hours to complete the main 4 tests.
Students may also take an optional non
multiple choice 5th test.
Writing
2
Primary Focus of ACT
  • Colleges use the ACT to
  • Decide whether to accept an applicant.
  • Compare achievement and ability of applicants.
  • Place students into remedial, regular, or
    advanced courses.
  • To award scholarships and some campus jobs.
  • To answer ACT questions students must
  • It is not enough to be able to just
  • memorize and recall information.

Solve Problems
Draw Conclusions
Make Inferences
Think Analytically
3
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
4
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
5
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
6
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
7
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
8
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
9
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
10
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
11
Parts of the ACT
Test 1 English
  • 75 multiple choice questions 45 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers usage/mechanics and rhetorical skills
  • Decide whether underlined portions are correct,
    or if one of the answer
  • choices is better.
  • Uses Standard Written English

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
12
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
13
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
14
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
15
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
16
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
17
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
18
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
19
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
20
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
21
Parts of the ACT
Test 2 Mathematics
  • 60 multiple choice questions 60 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers pre-algebra, elementary algebra,
    intermediate algebra,
  • coordinate geometry, geometry, and trigonometry

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
22
Parts of the ACT
Test 3 Reading
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers recall and content reasoning.
  • Specifically details, main idea, comparison,
    cause/effect, generalization, vocabulary,
    inferences, and point of view.
  • Based on 4 types of passages prose fiction,
    social studies, humanities,
  • and natural sciences.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
23
Parts of the ACT
Test 3 Reading
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers recall and content reasoning.
  • Specifically details, main idea, comparison,
    cause/effect, generalization, vocabulary,
    inferences, and point of view.
  • Based on 4 types of passages prose fiction,
    social studies, humanities,
  • and natural sciences.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
24
Parts of the ACT
Test 3 Reading
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers recall and content reasoning.
  • Specifically details, main idea, comparison,
    cause/effect, generalization, vocabulary,
    inferences, and point of view.
  • Based on 4 types of passages prose fiction,
    social studies, humanities,
  • and natural sciences.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
25
Parts of the ACT
Test 3 Reading
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers recall and content reasoning.
  • Specifically details, main idea, comparison,
    cause/effect, generalization, vocabulary,
    inferences, and point of view.
  • Based on 4 types of passages prose fiction,
    social studies, humanities,
  • and natural sciences.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
26
Parts of the ACT
Test 3 Reading
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers recall and content reasoning.
  • Specifically details, main idea, comparison,
    cause/effect, generalization, vocabulary,
    inferences, and point of view.
  • Based on 4 types of passages prose fiction,
    social studies, humanities,
  • and natural sciences.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
27
Parts of the ACT
Test 4 Science Reasoning
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers interpreting and analysis of science data,
    graphs, and passages.
  • There are 7 sets of questions from the 3
    categories.

Data Representation
Research Summaries
Conflicting Viewpoints
  • Covers content areas of Biology, Earth/Space
    Sciences, Chemistry, and
  • Physics that are distributed over the different
    formats.
  • Does NOT necessarily cover Science Knowledge.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
28
Parts of the ACT
Test 4 Science Reasoning
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers interpreting and analysis of science data,
    graphs, and passages.
  • There are 7 sets of questions from the 3
    categories.

Data Representation
Research Summaries
Conflicting Viewpoints
  • Covers content areas of Biology, Earth/Space
    Sciences, Chemistry, and
  • Physics that are distributed over the different
    formats.
  • Does NOT necessarily cover Science Knowledge.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
29
Parts of the ACT
Test 4 Science Reasoning
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers interpreting and analysis of science data,
    graphs, and passages.
  • There are 7 sets of questions from the 3
    categories.

Data Representation
Research Summaries
Conflicting Viewpoints
  • Covers content areas of Biology, Earth/Space
    Sciences, Chemistry, and
  • Physics that are distributed over the different
    formats.
  • Does NOT necessarily cover Science Knowledge.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
30
Parts of the ACT
Test 4 Science Reasoning
  • 40 multiple choice questions 35 minutes to
    complete
  • Covers interpreting and analysis of science data,
    graphs, and passages.
  • There are 7 sets of questions from the 3
    categories.

Data Representation
Research Summaries
Conflicting Viewpoints
  • Covers content areas of Biology, Earth/Space
    Sciences, Chemistry, and
  • Physics that are distributed over the different
    formats.
  • Does NOT necessarily cover Science Knowledge.

Table from Getting Into the ACT, Harcourt Brace
Company, 1997
31
Parts of the ACT
Test 5 Writing
  • Optional Test
  • One essay 30 minutes to complete
  • Covers
  • Using rules of standard written English
  • Organizing ideas in a logical way
  • Using logical reasoning and supporting ideas
  • Expressing yourself
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