Today’s ACT question of the day is an English question from the baseball passage. We’re asked to choose a transition sentence that will fit between paragraphs 1 and 2.
Paragraph one provides an anecdote about a baseball-obsessed teacher. The next paragraph talks about the appeal of baseball. How can we link the two? Continue reading
Today’s ACT science question involves two steps: reading the provided text and reading charts. This is just slightly more complicated than the questions that ask us to read data out of charts.
In this experiment, a stick has been placed in the ground. The student who placed the stick then measures the stick’s shadow length and direction at various times over several days.
The question: When the Sun is at an altitude 45° above the horizon, a vertical object will cast a shadow with a length equal to the object’s height. Which of the following days included a measurement taken when the Sun was at an altitude of 45° ? Continue reading
Today’s ACT question of the day wants us to find the slope of the line described by this equation:
3x = 10 – 5y
Sadly, it’s not just pointing to a number – we have to convert this to y = mx + b format. Continue reading
Today’s ACT question of the day is a repeat of the question about trial by battle. Enjoy the review!
Today’s ACT question of the day is from the English passage about baseball. We need to fix the underlined part of the sentence below (so ignore the other, non-underlined error).
When Hank Aaron stretched out a sinewy arm to pull one down, striding up to a rack of ash-hewn bats, he became a modern-day knight selecting their lance.
Today’s ACT question of the day is an exciting science question about this graph:
Let’s pause to note the axes: concentration on the x-axis and sediment depth on y.
This graph corresponds to one of the elements in this chart:
| Depth (cm) |
Temperature (oC) |
pH | Concentration in sediment (ppm) | |||||
| SO42– | S2– | CO2 | Fe3+ | Fe2+ | O2 | |||
| 0 | 4 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 |
| 5 | 5 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| 10 | 7 | 6.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| 15 | 9 | 5.5 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 0.0 |
| 20 | 10 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 0.0 |
Today’s ACT question of the day comes from the reading passage about the medieval court system. This detail question asks us: who was the accuser in these medieval trials? Continue reading
Today’s ACT question of the day is a great ratio question to review no matter which test you’re taking.
In a shipment of 1,000 light bulbs, 
of the bulbs were defective.
What is the ratio of defective bulbs to nondefective bulbs?
When we are dealing with ratios, we have to consider the different types: part-to-part and part-to-whole. Continue reading
Who lives in a sediment under the…ocean?
Today’s ACT question of the day is a science question from the passage about sediment in the bottom of the ocean. This time, we need to find the depth that would be a good home for a creature that likes low concentrations of Fe2+, high concentrations of O2, and a neutral pH. Continue reading
Today’s ACT reading question is a flashback to January 27 – why do the children say “no” at the end of the passage about Mrs. Sennett?