ACT 2022 For Dummies with Online Practice, 8th Edition

https://etxflooring.com/2025/04/jpplts2na Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here Figuring Out How Long All This Studying Will Take Part 1 Coming to Terms with Reality: An Overview of the ACT Chapter 1 Getting Your ACT Together: ACT What to Take to the ACT What Not to Take to the ACT What to Do If You Have Special Circumstances Guessing for Points to Maximize Your Score Your Number’s Up: Scoring on the ACT What the ACT Expects You to Know Repeating the Test for a Better Score Chapter 2 Succeeding on the ACT Surviving the ACT with Four Stress-Busters Inhaling deeply Stretching a little Thinking positive thoughts Practicing POE Avoiding a Few Dumb Mistakes That Can Mess Up Your ACT Losing concentration Panicking over time Messing up on the answer grid Rubbernecking Cheating Worrying about previous sections Worrying about the hard problems Forgetting to double-check Chapter 3 Surviving the College Admissions Process What’s the Main Thing Colleges Look For? How Do Higher ACT Scores Increase My Scholarship Chances? Do Schools Care Whether I Repeat the ACT? What Classes Should I Take in High School? How Helpful Are Sports and Charity? What Should I Say on the College Essay? What Will They Ask Me in the Interview and What Should I Say? How Do I Decide Which School Is Best for Me? What’s the Biggest Mistake Most Students Make in College Planning? How Do I Make My Final Decision? Part 2 Serving Your “Sentence”: The English Test Chapter 4 Mastering the English Test Figuring Out What the English Questions Want You to Know Seeing Is Believing: The Test’s Format The passages The question types Their Pain, Your Gain: Looking Out for Traps That Others Fall into Chapter 5 Getting a Grip on Grammar and Usage Reviewing the Parts of Speech Getting in the action with verbs Identifying the culprit with nouns Avoiding repeating yourself with pronouns Defining nouns with adjectives Clarifying the questions with adverbs Joining together with conjunctions and prepositions Piecing Together the Parts of a Sentence Subjects and predicates Phrases and clauses Keeping Track of Punctuation Rules for Every Occasion Periods and question marks Semicolons Colons Commas Dashes Apostrophes Chapter 6 Spotting Usage Errors and Ripping through Rhetorical Questions Spotting Questions That Test Standard English Conventions Properly placing punctuation marks Picking up on pronoun errors Forming possessives Evaluating verbs Calling out sentence fragments Identifying problems with parallelism Recognizing misplaced modifiers Checking for Proper Production of Writing Eliminating superfluous words Completing the mission Determining the function of a deletion Pondering an addition Creating smooth transitions Organizing and positioning elements Seeing the big picture Sticking to appropriate vocabulary and standard expressions Chapter 7 It’s Not What You Say but How You Say It: English Practice Questions Part 3 Don’t Count Yourself Out: The Math Test Chapter 8 Number Nuts and Bolts The Wonderful World of Numbers Keeping it real: Types of numbers Lining things up along the number line Understanding absolute value Getting familiar with prime numbers and factorization Minor Surgery: Basic Math Operations Adding and subtracting Multiplying and dividing Working with odds/evens and positives/ negatives Focusing on Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages Converting fractions, decimals, and percentages Working with fractions Pondering percentages Eyeing Ratios and Proportions Ratios Proportions Covering Your Bases: Exponents Smooth Operator: Order of Operations Dealing with Average, Median, Mode, and More Doing better than average on averages Weighing in on weighted averages Mastering medians Managing modes Getting ready for range Abracadabra: Elementary Algebra Variables Solving simple equations Adding and subtracting expressions Multiplying and dividing expressions Curses! FOILed again Extracting by factoring Solving a system of equations Chapter 9 Getting into Shapes: Geometry and Trig Review Toeing the Line Analyzing Angles Triangle Trauma Classifying triangles Sizing up triangles Zeroing in on similar triangles Figuring out area and perimeter Taking the shortcut: Pythagorean triples and other common side ratios Thanks 4 Nothing: A Quick Look at Quadrilaterals Missing Parrots and Other Polly-Gones (Or Should We Say “Polygons”?) Measuring up polygons Solving for volume Running Around in Circles Trying Your Hand at Trigonometry Introducing trigonometric functions Circumventing the unit circle Measuring in radians Graphing trig functions on a coordinate plane Applying the Law of Sines and Law of Cosines Chapter 10 Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids Suffering Inequalities Using Your Imagination: Complex Numbers Too Hip to Be Square: Roots and Radicals Adding and subtracting radicals Multiplying and dividing radicals Working from the inside out Thinking Exponentially: Logarithms Log rules Natural logarithms Barely Functioning with Functions Taking a Flight on the Coordinate Plane Defining the coordinate plane Knowing which formulas you need to guide your flight Graphing more functions Evaluating graphs of functions Picking Your Way through Percent Increase, Probability, Permutations, and Combinations Managing the ups and downs Practicing probability Finding the probability of one event Finding the probability of multiple events Calculating outcomes and orderings Combinations Permutations Setting Up Sequences Managing Matrices Chapter 11 Numb and Number: Acing the Mathematics Test What You See Is What You Get: The Format and Breakdown of the Math Test Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: What Isn’t on the Math Test Getting into the Grind: The Approach Translating English into Math Time Flies When You’re Having Fun: Timing Tips Skim for your favorite questions Backsolve when the answers are actual values Plug in values for variables Kindly refrain from showing off everything you know Put aside two minutes to fill in the remaining ovals Do’s, Don’ts, and Darns: What to Do and Not Do on the Math Test Do get the lead out Don’t start working until you’ve read the entire problem Do reread the problem with your answer inserted Don’t strike out over a difficult question early on Chapter 12 More Fun than a Root Canal: Mathematics Practice Questions Part 4 Time to Read the Riot ACT: The Reading Test Chapter 13 This, Too, Shall Pass(age): Sailing through the Reading Test Facing 40 Questions: The Reading Test Timing Scoring Getting Prepared: Reading Strategies Preview the passages Decide on an approach Skim the passage effectively Identifying Reading Question Types Big picture questions Direct statement questions Inference questions Figuring Out Reading Question Formats Vocabulary in context Most nearly means Exception questions Approaching Comparative Passages Chapter 14 Where Are SparkNotes When You Need Them? Reading Practice Questions Part 5 Studying Brain Defects in Laboratory Rats: The Science Test Chapter 15 From Frankenstein to Einstein: Excelling on the Science Test Examining the Science Test’s Format Classifying Passage Format Data-representation passages Research summaries Conflicting viewpoints Analyzing Tables, Graphs, and Diagrams Tackling tables Grappling with graphs Dissecting diagrams Examining Experimental Procedures Independent and dependent variables The control Immersing Yourself in Answer Choices Considering Question Types Questions about results Questions about procedure Questions about viewpoints Chapter 16 Faking Atomic Ache Won’t Get You out of This: Science Practice Questions Passage Initial Analysis Questions Part 6 Writing Rightly: The Optional Writing Test Chapter 17 Excelling on Your Essay: The Writing Test Review What to Expect From the ACT Writing Test Making the Grade: How the ACT Folks Score Your Essay Examining the Prompt and Creating a Thesis Putting Up Your Dukes: Defending Your Perspective Throwing a Good First Punch: The Hook The Proof Is in the Pudding: Defending Yourself Using specific examples Mixing things up with a variety of examples Forming logical arguments Hamburger Writing: Organizing Your Essay The top bun: Introduction The three meats: Example paragraphs The lettuce, tomato, and special sauce: Transitions The bottom bun: Conclusion Wielding the Red Pen: Editing and Proofing Using the touch method to look for spelling mistakes and ghost words Calling all action verbs: Be descriptive Avoiding problems with punk-tu-a-tion: Punctuate properly Handwriting check: Write legibly Writing Don’ts Writing before you think Panicking about time Referring to the perspectives by number Sticking to the status quo Using words you don’t know Being overly critical of yourself Writing like you speak Repeating yourself over and over again Failing to edit your essay Reviewing Some Example Essays and Their Scores 1 — 1 is the loneliest number: How not to be a 2 — 2 little 2 late: Steering clear of coming in second 3 — Still finding yourself on the wrong side of the tracks 4 — Reaching 4 a better score 5 — Shining brightly: A 5-star winner 6 — Unlocking the code to a perfect score Chapter 18 Practicing Promptly with Practice Prompts: Essay Practice Questions Writing Prompt Writing Prompt Part 7 Putting It All Together with Three Full-Length Practice ACTs Chapter 19 Practice Exam Answer Sheet English Test Mathematics Test Reading Test Science Test Writing Test Chapter 20 Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations English Test Mathematics Test Reading Test Science Test Writing Test Sample response Score One for Your Side: The Scoring Guide Answer Key for Practice Exam Chapter 21 Practice Exam Answer Sheet English Test Mathematics Test Reading Test Science Test Writing Test Chapter 22 Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations English Test Mathematics Test Reading Test Science Test Writing Test Sample response Answer Key for Practice Exam Chapter 23 Practice Exam Answer Sheet English Test Mathematics Test Reading Test Science Test Writing Test Chapter 24 Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations English Test Mathematics Test Reading Test Science Test Writing Test Sample response Answer Key for Practice Exam Part 8 The Part of Tens Chapter 25 Ten Wrong Rumors about the ACT You Can’t Study for the ACT Different States Have Different ACTs The ACT Has a Passing Score The ACT Tests IQ You Can’t Use a Calculator on the ACT You Should Never Guess on the ACT The ACT Is Easier Than the SAT Selective Colleges Prefer the SAT to the ACT You Have to Write an Essay You Shouldn’t Take Both the SAT and the ACT Chapter 26 Attention, Parents! Ten Ways You Can Help Your Child Succeed on the ACT Give Awesome Test-Prep Materials Encourage Studying Supply a Good Study Environment Take Practice Tests Together Model Good Grammar Help Memorize Math Formulas Encourage Reading Explore Colleges Together Arrive at the Test Site on Time Help Keep a Proper Perspective Index EULA