ACT Overview 

The ACT is a college entrance exam that many colleges and universities in the United States use as part of the college admissions process. The ACT is a standardized test that assesses students’ skills in five core areas: English, Math, Reading, Science, and Writing (optional). From the date of testing, ACT scores are valid for five years.

Smart Strategy for ACT preparation

  • Decide the target score goal.
  • Take the practice test.
  • Find the difference between the Test score and the Targeted score.
  • Analyze the practice test.
  • Identify the strengths and areas of improvement subject-wise and topic-wise.
  • Prepare first high-priority subjects and topics.
  • Take practice individual subject tests to check the improvement.
  • Take the full-length test before the actual test.

Strategy to answer the questions – 

  • Review all the questions first in each section. 
  • Mark the easy, difficult and unknown questions. 
  • In ACTs usually, easy questions are preceded by hard questions, answer all the easy questions first. 
  • Make sure you understand the hard questions at least two or three times.
  • Manage your time while test-taking, spend a few moments on easy questions, spend the rest time on hard questions.     
  • Eliminate the incorrect answers so you can narrow down the correct answer selection. 
  • All the questions will have only one right answer.   
  • There is no penalty for wrong answers, so Do NOT SKIP the questions guess the correct answers. 
  • Finally, the bonus tip is usually your first response is correct. 

To prepare for the ACT test in a month download the ACT free e-Book.  

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