Category Archives: ACT

ACT Question of the Day – October 4, 2014 – English, Verbs

Study hard, kids.I don’t often get to explain ACT questions anymore because they recycle so frequently!  Be sure to check the archives (using the links at the top or right) to find ACT tips and strategies.

Today’s question is about the underlined part of sentence 4:

[1] Then a vice president of Westinghouse,
looking for a way to make the transmission of radio
signals more profitable, decided on a two-fold
strategy. […] [4] The plan succeeded
beyond anyone’s expectations.

Is there anything wrong with this sentence?  Let’s take a look.

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ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 26, 2014 – English, Wordiness

Today’s ACT question of the day is an English question from the passage about baseball.  We’re asked to fix the underlined part of this sentence (only the first part of which is pasted below, because the final clause doesn’t affect us):

I was a freshman at a university that was located in the Midwest at the time,

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ACT Question of the Day Explained – March 9, 2014 – Science

Today’s ACT question of the day comes from the science passage about the stick.  We are asked to draw a conclusion based on Shadow A of experiment 1 (data below).  Shadow A was measured one hour after sunrise.

Table 1
Shadow Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Length
(m)		 Shadow
direction		 Length
(m)		 Shadow
direction		 Length
(m)		 Shadow
direction
A 5.0 SW 8.6 NW 6.8 W
B 1.2 W 2.9 NNW 1.7 NW
C 0.3 N 2.3 N 0.9 N
D 1.2 E 3.0 NNE 1.8 NE
E 5.0 SE 8.6 NE 6.9 E

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