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Hurricane Harvey is expected to make landfall late tonight or early tomorrow morning along the Gulf coast of Texas. The looming storm has forced the College Board to preemptively cancel the [...]

In an e-mail sent to test takers and through an FAQ posted on its website, the ACT announced on Tuesday a change in its policy related to students receiving time and a half.  Starting with the [...]

Today we move to the Math section of the ACT and look at a more specific problem type: percentage questions. While most students probably think that they have a pretty good feel for percentage [...]

After last week’s blog about content-based questions on the ACT English section, we return today to a more traditional, grammar-based question type. One of the most frequently tested topics on [...]

As we’ve seen throughout our Student Weakness blog series, most of the questions on the ACT English section center on grammar rules and conventions of style. There are, however, certain questions [...]

In today’s edition of our ACT student weakness series, we turn our attention back to the Reading section of the ACT, looking at a particular type of question that poses some unique difficulties.  [...]

Continuing in our discussion of common student weaknesses on the ACT Math section, today we turn our attention to trigonometry questions. Trigonometry questions can span any difficulty level on [...]

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After a brief hiatus during the beginning of summer, we are back to our blog series about common student weaknesses on the ACT. Today, we’ll take a look at statistics questions. Statistics [...]

Note: This is the last of a 4-part series from our Manager of Instruction, Jodie Westerman, on overcoming common barriers to learning.  Last week we discussed how to overcome biases against [...]