The ACT is a standardized test designed to measure your critical thinking skills and to assess your ability to apply knowledge and logic when solving problems. Every year, more than 2 million students take the ACT in order to get admissions to the colleges in the United States. The ACT test is divided into four multiple choice subject tests: English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science.
August 18, 2021
NATURAL SCIENCE: This passage is adapted from the article "Worlds Apart: Seeking New Earths" by Timothy Ferris (2009 by National Geographic Society).
August 11, 2021
HUMANITIES: This passage is adapted from the article "Winslow Homer: His Melancholy Truth" by John A. Parks (2006 by VNU Business Media).
August 04, 2021
SOCIAL SCIENCE: Passage A is adapted from the book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001). Passage B is adapted from the article "The Flop Heard Round the World" by Peter Carlson (2007 by The Washington Post).
July 28, 2021
LITERARY NARRATIVE: This passage is adapted from the novel - A Map of Home, by Randa Jarrar (2008).
July 21, 2021
[1] "I have been taken prisoner for the liberties of my country, and never will prove a traitor to her interests." [A] Before entering a British-run prison during the American Revolution prisoner of war, James Forten, (61) said these words as a patriotic rejection of his British captor's offer to free him and educate him in England.
July 13, 2021
[1] Rome, founded on the banks of the Tiber River, boasts two ancient walls that, when they were built, surrounded the city. [A] Although both were built as walls intended to defend the city protectively (46) and stood ten meters tall they (47) were erected under different historical circumstances.
May 13, 2021
The probability distribution of the discrete random variable X is shown in the table below. What is the expected value of X ?
May 11, 2021
The lengths of the triangle shown below are rounded to the nearest 0.1 cm. What is the area, to the nearest 1 cm2, of this triangle?
(Note: The area of any triangle with sides of length a, b, and c opposite angles of measure A, B, and C, respectively, is given by 1/2 ab sin C.)
May 09, 2021
In the circle with center D shown below, the length of radius CD is 4 cm, the length of BC is 1 cm, and BC is perpendicular to radius AD at B. When ∠ADC is measured in degrees, which of the following expressions represents the length, in centimeters, of arc AC ?
May 07, 2021
A finite arithmetic sequence has 7 terms, and the first term is 3/4. What is the difference between the mean and the median of the 7 terms?
May 05, 2021
Whenever j and k are positive integers such that (√3)j = 27k, what is the value of j/k?
F. 1/6
G. 3/2
H. 3
J. 4
K. 6
May 03, 2021
Mario was riding a bicycle with wheels 26 inches in diameter. During 1 minute of Mario's ride, the wheels made exactly 200 revolutions. At what average speed, in feet per second, was Mario riding during that minute?