The ACT test is a college admission test, taken in high school. The ACT has four multiple choice questions sections: English, mathematics, reading comprehension, and science reasoning.

English

This part consists of 75 questions; each question has an underlined part the examinee needs to correct. The correction could be in the organization of the sentence, its grammar or the punctuation of the sentence, but it could also be its style. To complete this part in the ACT.

you have 45 minutes.

Math

The math part of the ACT test consists of 60 mathematical questions including: 14 pre-algebra, 10 elementary algebra, 9 intermediate algebra, 14 plane geometry, 9 coordinate geometry and 4 elementary trigonometry. This is the only part that has 5 optional answers and not four. To complete this part in the ACT.

you have 60 minutes.

Reading comprehension

The reading comprehension part in the ACT is divided in to four passages with a total of 40 questions. One representing prose fiction (novels stories and short stories), another representing social science (history, economics, psychology, political science and anthropology), a third representing humanities (art, music, architecture, dance) and the last representing natural science (biology, chemistry, physics and the physical sciences), in that order.

To complete this part in the ACT, you have 35 minutes.

Science reasoning

In this part of the ACT, There are seven passages, each followed by five to seven questions. There are three Data Representation passages with 5 questions following each passage, 3 Research Summary passages with six questions each and one Conflicting Viewpoints passage with 7 questions. a total of 40 questions.

To complete this part in the ACT, you have 35 minutes.

Writing

The optional writing section in the ACT is always administered at the end of the test. The assay written is with context of a prompt given .no essay structure is needed. Although the writing section is optional, several schools do require an essay score and will factor it in the admissions decision.

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