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.
Six pages of ACT strategy — 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 strategies
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 strategies
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 strategies
ACT English strategies: the shortest grammatical answer, take DELETE seriously, NO CHANGE is right about a quarter of the time, the semicolon test, and two essays done by 14 min.
ACT Reading strategies
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.
ACT pacing and test-day strategies
ACT pacing: Enhanced clocks including optional Science, the halfway check, flag and move, the last-60-seconds rule, a silent watch, and the short break after Math.
Tips are free. The clock is $4.99.
Knowing the technique and doing it with 40 seconds on the clock are different skills. A timed Half-Pack is the second one.
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