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ACT Scores for Scholarships
There is no single ACT score for scholarships: each college and state program sets its own cutoff on the 1-36 Composite scale, so...
Aug 07, 2026
ACT Guide for International Students
International students register for the ACT through a free MyACT account, and non-US test dates cover all countries outside the Un...
Aug 07, 2026
ACT Science Conflicting Viewpoints and Evaluating Models
The ACT Science Conflicting Viewpoints passage presents two or more explanations for one phenomenon. These explanations disagree b...
Aug 07, 2026
ACT Science Research Summaries and Experimental Design
Research Summaries passages make up 45-60% of the ACT Science Test, the largest share of any passage type. Each one describes one...
Aug 07, 2026
ACT Science Data Representation: Graphs and Trends
Data Representation questions on ACT Science hand you a table, graph, or figure and ask you to read it or reason one step beyond i...
Aug 06, 2026
ACT Reading Vocabulary in Context Questions
ACT Reading vocabulary-in-context questions ask you to name what a word or phrase means inside one specific sentence, not what it...
Aug 06, 2026
ACT Reading Main Idea, Craft and Comparative Passages
ACT Reading tests three related skills covered in this guide: finding the main idea, explaining an author’s structural or wo...
Aug 05, 2026
ACT Reading Detail, Inference and Sequence Questions
ACT Reading detail, inference and sequence questions sit inside the Key Ideas and Details reporting category, worth 44 to 52 perce...
Aug 05, 2026
ACT Math Probability, Counting and Statistics
Statistics and Probability questions make up 12 to 15 percent of the ACT Mathematics test, which has 45 questions in 50 minutes. T...
Aug 04, 2026
ACT Trigonometry Questions
ACT trigonometry questions sit inside the Geometry reporting category, worth 17 to 20 percent of the 41 scored Math questions, and...
Aug 04, 2026
ACT Plane Geometry Questions
Geometry questions make up 17 to 20 percent of the ACT Math test, covering angles, triangles, circles, polygons, area, and volume....
Aug 03, 2026
ACT Math Functions, Graphs and Coordinate Geometry
ACT Math tests functions and coordinate geometry inside two subcategories of Preparing for Higher Math, Functions and Geometry, ea...
Aug 03, 2026