Bessie Coleman
Today’s ACT question of the day also comes from the English passage about Bessie Coleman. Our given sentence begins:
After both semesters of the two-semester year
at Langston Industrial College….
If she studied for both semesters of a two semester year, how long did she study? Continue reading
Today’s ACT question of the day is a repeat of the science question we discussed on January 20.
Since there’s nothing new today, here are some general tips for the ACT science section:
My February 8 test takers: you are officially less than a week away! Time to review all ACT tips to make sure you’ve got your strategies down and start assembling the items from your test day checklist, either. Make sure next Thursday and Friday nights are blocked out for sleeping!
Today’s ACT question of the day is the same detail question about a hat we saw about a week ago.
If you’re ready to review for next week’s test, you can take a look over all ACT tips to make sure you’ve got your strategies down! Don’t forget your test day checklist, either.
Today’s ACT question of the day is a math question about absolute value and number properties. Remember the basic fact about absolute value: everything that comes out of the bars is either positive or 0. Kind of like coming out of prison?
Anyhow. If we have that fact with us, we can answer this question. Continue reading
Bessie Coleman
Today’s ACT question of the day is an English question from the passage we saw just over a week ago about Bessie Coleman. Today we are looking at underlined portion 5 to see how best to revise it.
Portion 5 comes between a sentence about when she was born and where she would end up and a sentence about life in Oklahoma. The underlined sentence gives us information about how long ago 1893 was, and there’s nothing grammatically wrong with the sentence as it’s written. Continue reading
Today’s ACT science question of the day brings us back to the stick we met four days ago. This time, instead of looking for data in the charts, we are asked about something relating to the scientific method.
They would like to know what remains constant in all of the experiments – in other words, we are looking for something that is part of the setup, definitely not one of the variables that is being measured. Continue reading
Today’s ACT question of the day comes from a fiction passage – the same passage we saw last week, in fact, in the question about the hat. Our question asks us to consider evidence given throughout the passage as support for why the children are saying “no” at the end of the text.
Today’s ACT question of the day is a repeat of the question we just saw on January 22 about applying the Pythagorean theorem and simplifying radical expressions.
Instead of going over it again, let’s take a moment to remember at least one Pythagorean triplet (3, 4, 5 – a great time save on test day if you know how to apply it).
And, for practice, simplifying another radical expression:
√108 = √(9 * 12 ) = (9 * 4 * 3) = 3√(4 * 3) = 6√3
Check:
6^2 = 36
36 * 3 = 108
Mickey Mantle (credit: flickr user brokentaco)
Today’s ACT question of the day is an English question designed to prove me right when I say that verbs are the most frequently tested subject on the ACT English section (as well as on the SAT writing section).
The passage about Mickey Mantle is written in past tense and, indeed, the very sentence we are asked to fix is in the past tense (“…when glints of the afternoon sun shone…”). We need to put “there will have to be seen for one brief, stirring moment the glimmer of jewels…” into a tense that is compatible with the past tense. Continue reading
Today’s ACT question of the day involves a sort of homemade sundial. A student (who must not have internet access or who has broken his iPhone) has placed a stick in the ground and measured the length of its shadow at certain times of the day.