1. ACT SUCCESS

2. What Colleges Expect

3. 20 OR HIGHER Guarantees placement in a credit-bearing math course, but this may not meet requirements for many college majors.

4. 22 OR HIGHER Guarantees placement in college algebra, which is required for majors such as business, economics, and information technology.

5. 27 OR HIGHER Guarantees placement in college calculus, which is required for majors such as mathematics, physics, and engineering.

6. Barriers? What keeps students from being successful in entry level college courses

7. Strategies Course Work Class Openers Modeling Counseling

8. Openers It is not about the answer to the question!

9. Modeling How do successful problem solvers work?

10. Counseling What Course Work Prepares a Student to be Successful on the ACT?

11. Other Strategies Conceptual Understanding Curriculum Map Data Review Plan Test ACT Review Practice Tests

12. Using the Data Looking at Patterns Comparing Course Work

13. The Test Itself There are sixty multiple choice questions in sixty minutes It is the mathematics needed for college mathematics courses

14. Content Pre-Algebra Elementary Algebra Intermediate Algebra Coordinate Geometry Plane Geometry Trigonometry

15. Weighting Pre-Algebra/Elementary Algebra 24 questions Intermediate Algebra/Coordinate Geometry 18 questions Plane Geometry/Trigonometry 18 questions

16. Test Taking Strategies Pace yourself Answer the easy questions first Answer ALL questions Read each problem carefully Look for clues in the answer choices Use your number sense

17. Pacing Questions are arranged in order of difficulty

18. Answer the easy questions first Don’t forget to mark—in the test booklet—the questions you skip

19. Answer ALL the Questions There is no penalty for guessing and no penalty for wrong answers!

20. Read Each Problem Carefully You don’t necessarily have to use all the information you are given There are “Cannot be determined from the given information” problems

21. Look for clues in the answer choices Sometimes just substituting answer choices will yield a correct answer This strategy is time consuming!

22. Questions? Comments!