ACT is required to all the student who are going to College. Most of the college looks for ACT scores for scholarshop. ACT do not test intelligence, and they do not necessarily reflect high school grades. But they are used in the college admission process. There is four terms of ACT.
English
The ACT tests English grammar. You are expected to know the fundamentals of usage, diction, and rhetorical skills. For example, you must understand sentence construction -- what makes a run-on and what makes a fragment. You need to know how to distinguish between commonly confused words, like affect and effect or principal and principle. You must be able to use the proper forms of words, distinguishing between an adjective and an adverb.
On the ACT English test, you have 45 minutes to read five passages, or essays, and answer 75 multiple-choice question - an average of 15 questions per passage. The passages on the English test cover a variety of subjects. The English test measures your ability to accomplish the wide variety of decisions involved in revising and editing a given piece of writing.
Mathematic
The ACT requires basic skills in arithmetic, geometry,
algebra, and a little bit of trigonometry. If you have
had two semesters of algebra, two semesters of geometry,
and a general math background, you can answer probably
90 percent of the questions.
The ACT Mathematics Test asks you to answer 60 multiple-choice
questions in 60 minutes. The questions are designed to
measure your achievement of the mathematical knowledge,
skills, and reasoning techniques; they cover a full range
of math topics, from pre-algebra and elementary algebra
through intermediate algebra, coordinate geometry, plane
geometry, and even trigonometry. You are allowed to use
a calculator on the Mathematics Test. However, the questions
on the test are designed to emphasize your ability to
reason mathematically, not to test your computation ability
or your ability to recall definitions, theorems, or formulas
Reading
The ACT Reading Test asks you to answer 40 questions - 10 questions about each of four passages - in 35 minutes. The passages in the Reading Test come from published materials such as books and magazines. There are four categories of reading passages: Social Studies, Natural Sciences, Humanities, and Prose Fiction. You'll get one passage in each category. The passages are about 1,000 words long and are written at about the same difficulty level as college textbooks and readings.
Science
The ACT Science Reasoning Test asks you to answer 40 multiple-choice questions in 35 minutes. The questions test your interpretation, analysis, evaluation, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. The test is made up of seven test units, each of which consists of a passage containing scientific information of the following categories, followed by a number of multiple-choice questions.
Biology - cell biology, botany, zoology, microbiology,
ecology, genetics, evolution
Earth/Space Sciences - geology, meteorology, oceanography,
astronomy, environmental sciences
Chemistry - atomic theory, inorganic chemical reactions,
chemical bonding, reaction rates, solutions, equilibriums,
gas laws, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry,
properties and states of matter
Physics - mechanics, energy, thermodynamics, electromagnetism,
fluids, solids, light waves
