The prohibited use of devices is in effect from the time you are admitted to your testing room until you are dismissed at the end of the test, including break times. The ACT calculator policy is designed to ensure fairness for all examinees, avoid disturbances in the testing room, and protect the security of the test materials. Bring a permitted calculator to be used on the mathematics test only.
It is your responsibility to know whether your calculator is permitted. This document must be fully completed by a school official or notary public; neither may be a relative. You will not be admitted to test if you present any forms of ID other than those listed as acceptable. The following are examples of unacceptable identification:. The full ACT consists of four multiple-choice sections—in English, mathematics, reading, and science—with an optional writing section.
Your scores will be based only on the number of questions that you answer correctly; there is no penalty for guessing. Try to answer every question within the time allowed for each section.
Once you have submitted your registration to ACT, by any method, it cannot be canceled. For more information see Registration Changes. Occasionally, a test center must cancel a test administration due to bad weather or other unforeseen circumstances.
When this occurs, the test will be rescheduled for a future date. Visit Rescheduled Test Centers to find out if your test center has been rescheduled and for more information about procedures. ACT sends out communications to examinees when a change at their test center impacts their registration and is sent when ACT makes the change to the registration.
If you believe that your test center is closed, and it is not available on our test center cancellations page, please direct test center staff to contact ACT immediately. Examinees are currently required to bring and wear masks and are welcome to bring their own personal hand sanitizer, and other PPE. You will be prohibited from entering the testing facility without a face covering.
No personal protective equipment PPE will be provided by the test center. No specific type of mask is required, however, because some types of masks are not recommended by the U. Center for Disease Control, they will not be allowed. Visit the CDC website for more information about correct mask usage. You are required to bring your own mask. If you forget to bring one, you will be prohibited from entering the testing facility.
You are always required to wear your mask while in the facility, but there are limited exceptions. You may also briefly remove your mask to consume food or a drink during the break. Exceptions will be granted for those who cannot wear a mask due to a medical condition, mental health condition, or disability.
On the day of the test, please alert staff at the test center of your need for an exception. You do not need to call ACT prior to the test event. Examinees will be asked the following health and wellness questions during check-in. If the examinee does not pass the screening question, they will not be admitted, and may make a test date change at no cost. If you did not test, you can go into your MyACT account and make a test date change.
If you are unable to make the change through your account, please contact ACT. This skipping strategy requires practice since you will need to learn a new test pace. If you had been attempting to complete all questions, you were likely going at a much faster pace. You will need to slow it down and give yourself more time per question.
Also, you will need to figure out exactly what number of skipped questions will give you your target score. For example, while you can skip about one full passage in English 14 out of 15 questions and get a 26, you may answer 10 questions incorrectly in the 4 passages you do complete, bringing your score below If this happens, try to skip only half a passage 7 questions on your next English practice test.
Try to skip the maximum allowed during your first practice test then change the amount based on whether your score goes up or down. Plan to spend the entire time allocated except for the last minute on those questions. That way, you get more time per question and do not rush to answer more questions and make more mistakes. If you do have extra time, I would recommend reviewing the answers you were unsure of and NOT attempting any new questions. However, if you felt confident about your answers and have extra time, you should attempt a few more.
You should choose two corresponding letters, for example, A and F, to bubble in. As I said, there is no penalty for guessing on the ACT. Could you theoretically skip more questions? While it would be possible to skip more, bubble in, and get a composite score of 26, I would not risk it. Stick to the outlined plan. Need help preparing for the ACT? Taking the ACT very soon? Read our guide to cramming for the test. Not sure where you want to go to college? Check out our guide to finding your target school.
You can also hunt down older editions of The Real Guide or practice with released official tests you can get from friends or tutors who have used the Test Information Release service.
The reason many, many practice tests are particularly helpful for the ACT is because the ACT is very repetitive and predictable—it uses the same question types over and over and over. The rationales behind the correct answer choices are often equally as predictable.
But a certain oddball question type might not repeat itself for a few tests, so you want to make sure you have as much exposure to ACT questions as possible. Make eliminations, take your best guess and focus on the rest of the questions. It also means that for a perfect score, you want to make sure you are really focusing on your strengths. I am sure you are very strong across the board if you are shooting for a 36, but you might feel more comfortable with English instead of Science, for example.
Because if you want a perfect composite score, you are going to want to make sure you get a perfect section score in your strongest subjects. This means considering where they are expecting you to trip up and also how they create answer choices that can be defended as irrefutably correct.
Instead, go back through the entire test and look at the answer choices for each question. Check to see if there is a smarter strategy you could have employed to get the answer faster. Finally, remember that getting a perfect score is really, really hard, and really, really rare. And it seriously requires a stroke of good luck—you need the stars to perfectly align on your particular administration of the test. Prior to March , the SAT did have a guessing penalty; a quarter of a point was subtracted from your raw score for every wrong answer.
Since right answers were worth one point each, random guessing was likeliest to result in a score of zero. Many students and their parents remember the old guessing penalty, and they are afraid to take a chance on a question. That fear of guessing incorrectly can prevent students from picking up a few extra points. All you need is a solid guessing strategy. Over the course of the test, some of those are bound to be the right answer. We call this your Letter of the Day, and having one saves time.
When you need to guess, just pick your favorite letter s and go for it. You may have heard that the correct answer is most often C. Correct Answer Percent A This pattern of roughly equal frequency among the answer choices holds true for the ACT as well, and it is by design. If the correct answer really were most likely to be C , some students would pick up on the pattern, and it would give them an unfair advantage.
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