ACT
ACT Math preparation.
The ACT is the second of the two big US admissions tests. The Math section is famously tight on time: sixty questions in sixty minutes, spanning everything from pre-algebra to early trigonometry. We tutor the content and the pacing.
About the exam
What the ACT Math section looks like.
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Sixty questions in sixty minutes
A minute a question, on average. The first half is meant to feel quick so that time is left for the harder questions later. Pace is the most common reason students lose marks.
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Scored 1 to 36
ACT Math is scored on the 1 to 36 scale. Selective US universities typically expect 32 and above; the top engineering and business programmes look for 34 or 35.
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Pre-algebra to trigonometry
Content runs from pre-algebra, elementary and intermediate algebra, and coordinate and plane geometry, through to a small amount of trigonometry. Calculator allowed throughout, within the published list.
How we work
Our approach.
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Pacing as a skill
We treat ACT pace the same way we treat any other technique: explicitly taught, practised in isolation, then reintegrated into full timed sections.
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Calculator strategy
Knowing which questions to do on the calculator and which to do by hand is half the section. Sessions cover that decision as carefully as the maths itself.
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Diagnostic-led
We start from a diagnostic and prioritise the topics actually losing the student marks, rather than working through the full syllabus by default.
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Tell us the score the student is targeting and where they are now, and we will match them with a tutor and plan.
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