Posts from ArborBridge

Over the past two months, we’ve used this blog to detail a number of common weaknesses on the ACT and to discuss ways of addressing them. Today, we are going to take a wider view of multiple [...]

One of the more common question types on the ACT Reading section is that of “primary purpose” questions. There are two types of purpose questions on the ACT: those that reference the passage as a [...]

If you’re like most students, you’d prefer to do math with numbers than with variables. This first time you heard “x plus 3” in your pre-algebra class, you probably said “how exactly am I [...]

In last week’s blog, we discussed how to use colons properly. Today, we’ll look at another piece of punctuation that is infrequently used in everyday life but seems to show up all the time on the [...]

In the past two weeks, Jon has written excellent blog posts explaining the difference between independent clauses and dependent clauses and showing how you can link clauses using different [...]

This is Part 3 of the What to Expect on Test Day blog series. You can read Part 1 on how you should prepare the day before test day here and Part 2 on what you can expect upon arriving at the [...]

In our last entry, we talked about how to identify independent and dependent clauses. However, the ACT is a little more nuanced than that. Rather than test your ability to identify the types of [...]

The English section of the ACT loves to tinker around with sentence structure. Many questions revolve around finding the right punctuation piece to join two ideas together. Do you want a comma? [...]

We’ve talked about how to answer ACT Reading questions that deal in nitty gritty details, but the ACT tests more than your ability to find basic facts. The test makers have also crafted some [...]

This is Part 2 of the What to Expect on Test Day blog series. You can read Part 1 on how you should prepare the day before test day here. Last week, we looked at what to do the day before the [...]