CrACT: Raise Your ACT Score

Identify that all answer choices say the same thing, then apply the trick of choosing the shortest option, which is the correct answer in this case.

Learn a practical ACT strategy for question 19: strip descriptive phrases, plug in answer choices, and compare remaining fragments to determine the correct phrase after 'consumer culture'.

Explore how like signals similarity or preference, apply comma placement and reading aloud to test sense in sentences like I appreciate the beauty of science more when I am alone.

Learn to edit a sentence for clarity by removing redundancy, inserting a comma before a clause, and choosing crisper wording.

Use the last word trick to locate the right answer and reduce redundancy by recognizing the city context, eliminating options not in Philadelphia.

Learn a time-saving trick for the math section: substitute a value for a to simplify the expression, then test answer choices to match the target -55, under 60 minutes.

Explore selecting the right transitional phrase by analyzing context before and after, using examples to illustrate contrast, continuation, and time, with practice on answer choices.

Compare two methods to compute the probability of a not great flavored candy: direct counting over ten versus the complement 1 minus the probability of grape equals 2/10, yielding 4/5.

Learn a smarter factoring strategy for x(x-36)=0 and use plug-in checks to verify the correct choice among five options, avoiding the weaker brute-force method.

Choose between building a right triangle with sine and cosine or using sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1, and use the method with a calculator to find the answer.

Apply conditional probability by analyzing a table: determine the probability a person likes to read given they play a musical instrument, using 50 of 90 as the ratio.

Explore how to verify answer choices by analyzing distinctions in the passage, such as home meaning embellishing versus facts, and identify support for the narrator and the writer’s role.

Compare two passages to identify similarities across time distances and how a blurb and dates affect credibility. Analyze portrayals of automobiles and traffic, noting how the author background influences interpretation.

Use elimination or direct selection to identify the right answer, then justify it; scan for quotes, note absence of quotes from people and rhetorical questions, and interpret the firefly simile.

Analyze a graph to compare two points by average relative brightness, determining which is darker or lighter, using coastal site references (zero kilometers away) to decide between options.

Evaluate how a mouse’s fur color affects camouflage and survival by matching soil and reducing predator detection. Explain that higher survival enables reproduction and that pigmentation traits pass to offspring.

Analyze question 12 to show how standard filtration excludes experiment 2 trials and count the six trials with reactions of at least three days, highlighting trial three.

Develop ratio and proportional reasoning to solve a cross-disciplinary ACT problem, turning two units into six units by forming and multiplying both sides of a simple equation.

Identify the independent variable and analyze how the direction and magnitude vary in study one.

Review the first official practice test with the book, using the score correspondence tables to translate wrong answers into a score and raise your ACT score.