ACT
ACT English & Reading practice and prep course
Grammar, punctuation, organization, rhetorical choices, and reading comprehension. Start with 86 free questions. The full course adds the lessons, the study guide, and practice tests.
Course outline
- What ACT English and Reading Actually Ask You to DoSee each ACT English and Reading question as a decision with a specific source of evidence, and learn to identify the task before you compare the answer choices.31 questions
- Does This Sentence Actually Work?Learn to find the real subject and verb, tell fragments from complete clauses, fix splices and run-ons, and keep modifiers, tenses, pronouns, and series in order.45 questions
- What Is This Punctuation Doing?Name the job each comma, semicolon, colon, dash, and apostrophe must do, then choose pronouns, comparisons, and modifiers by their role in the sentence.59 questions
- Which Version Says It Best?Cut redundancy without losing meaning, pick the exact word, match the passage's tone, and name the logic before choosing a connector.36 questions
- Does This Sentence Help the Passage Do Its Job?Judge relevance, purpose, order, transitions, and argument support in ACT English: what a sentence is doing, where it belongs, and whether the evidence actually answers the claim.81 questions
- What Did the Passage Actually Tell Us?Master Key Ideas and Details on ACT Reading: state central ideas, match details, track causes and sequences, and make only the inferences the passage supports.60 questions
- Why Did the Writer Say It That Way?Learn to judge word choice, function, structure, purpose, and perspective so you can explain what a passage says, how it says it, and why.74 questions
- What Can the Evidence Really Prove?Identify who owns a claim, test whether evidence is enough for it, compare paired sources and literary passages, and connect charts and tables to the exact claim they support.75 questions
- When a Familiar Word Means Something Different HereBuild the working vocabulary of ACT prose: familiar words with academic senses, claim-strength words, research and argument terms, tone words, and transitions.50 questions
- Why Two Answers Can Both Look RightFind the one hidden dimension (scope, degree, source, relationship, or purpose) that separates two choices that both sound right, and learn the twelve ways wrong answers get built.98 questions
- Where the Time Actually GoesLearn to classify each question as one pass, one specific second look, or mark-and-return, and build a pacing system from your own data.Lesson
- ACT Test Day: What to Prepare and What to ExpectWhat to pack, what the morning looks like, how to handle imperfect rooms, and what to do when time or the administration goes wrong.Lesson
- English and Reading Quick ReferenceA compact set of decision tables for English and Reading: boundaries, punctuation, agreement, wording, evidence, paired texts, visuals, and vocabulary.Lesson
- Practice Test 1: EnglishFull-length ACT English practice test: five passages, 50 questions, 35 minutes, with an answer key and explanations.50 questions
- Practice Test 1: ReadingFull-length ACT Reading practice test: four passages, 36 questions, 40 minutes, with an answer key and explanations.36 questions
- Practice Test 2: EnglishFull-length timed ACT English section: five passages and fifty questions in thirty-five minutes, with full explanations.50 questions
- Practice Test 2: ReadingFull-length timed ACT Reading section: four passages and thirty-six questions in forty minutes, with full explanations.36 questions