Spend your minutes where the points are cheap
Enhanced ACT (2025+). English 50 Q / 35 min. Math 45 Q / 50 min, four choices. Reading 36 Q / 40 min. Science (optional) 40 Q / 40 min. Short break after Math.
Eight pages of ACT tips — what changed on the Enhanced ACT, whether to sit optional Science, Science figures, Math with four choices, English DELETE, Reading you can point to, and the halfway check. Written plainly, one technique at a time. Then practice it on the clock.
ACT Science tips
ACT Science strategies: go to the questions first on the five figure passages, match units to the axis, read the trend, save the argument passage for last. Science is optional on the Enhanced ACT.
ACT Math tips
ACT Math strategies: read the last sentence first, backsolve from the second of four choices, pick a number that fits the rules, and the formulas the test does not give you. Calculator allowed on all of Math.
ACT English tips
Five rules for faster picks on Enhanced ACT English: the shortest answer that still works, take DELETE seriously, the semicolon test, cut the repeated word.
ACT Reading tips
ACT Reading strategies: choose your own passage order, read the window around a line number, only pick an answer you can point to, and do paired passages one at a time.
How to pace the Enhanced ACT
How to pace the Enhanced ACT: know the clocks, look once at halfway, keep a silent watch in the corner of your eye, flag and move, fill every blank because there is no guessing penalty.
What changed on the Enhanced ACT (2025 and later)
What changed on the Enhanced ACT: shorter sections, Math with four choices, Science optional and outside the Composite, a short break after Math. Format and timing only.
Should you take optional ACT Science?
Optional ACT Science does not go into the Composite. Sit it if a college on the list wants it. Skip it if none do. If you are not sure, sit it.
Tips are free. Try them under a clock — also free.
Ten minutes, eight questions, Science first. No account. Then, if you want more timed practice, a Half-Pack is $4.99.
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