ACT POD #5

Way to be here !

Warm-Up JetPunk

This website has played a large role in Lizzie’s love for learning.

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https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/2054725/english-act-prep

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https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/analogies-13

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Discussion Question

• Have you registered to take the ACT?
• If not, register with me or your coach during your next coaching session!
• Are you taking the ACT with your school in April?
• Ask your college guidance counselor and report back to your coach

Reminders from last semester!

• Target ACCURACY! Do not target your score
• Accuracy thinking: I want to get as many questions right as I can!
• English: Aim to read each passage in 9 minutes
• Math: Cross out the questions that you do not know how to do, spend all your times on questions that are worth attempting
• Use AppleRouth to prepare independently </3
• Immediate feedback is IMPORTANT to learning

Registering for the ACT

• Step by step guide
• Goal setting

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“For each test, you need to instill a sense of timing in your students.”

-Craig Hannick, local ACT master

Q: What is “stamina”?

Why might stamina be important to the ACT?

Q: What is “urgency”?

Why might urgency be important in preparing for the ACT?

45 minutes. 75 questions. 5 passages

Timing Breakdown of English Section (reminder)

This means: You have 9 minutes per passage

which means you are on track if you finished those sections in 18 minutes or less

What should you do if you are not going fast enough?

• Read 20 minutes of non-fiction per day
• Complete practice tests
• Practice substitution answers

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60 minutes. 60 problems.

Timing Breakdown of Math Section

30 minutes. 30 problems.

This means: You have 1 minutes per question

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BUT – not all questions should take you one minute, some should take more, and some should take less

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Lizzie’s recommendation:

• Read through the ENTIRE test
• Circle questions that look familiar
• X out ones that do not
• Complete the ones that you have seen, use your guess letter on the rest

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Reading Video

35 minutes. 40 questions

Timing Breakdown of Reading Section

This means: You have less than one minute per question

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Lizzie will give her recommendations for the reading section AFTER the practice test.

Lizzie will hand out the tests.

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When she says go, she will start her timer.

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Complete all 4 sections to the best of your availability. You will have 35 minutes!

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35 minutes. 40 questions

Timing Breakdown of Reading Section

This means: You have less than one minute per question

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Lizzie’s Recommendations:

• Which of the tests was your least favorite? Cross it out.
• The genres always come in the same order, so you can choose to eliminate the #1, #2, #3, or #4 test, and they should be a similar passage each time.
• Go and put your guess letter for all questions on the one you are skipping

Timing Breakdown of Reading Section

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Lizzie’s Recommendations Continued:

• Be strategic about which questions you answer. There are a lot of reading questions that say, for example, “In lines 30-35 the author shows…” They POINT you to the information

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• If you cross out a passage and finish the other 3 early, you could look for the questions that say this in the passage you crossed out for some bonus points.

Quizlets Available for You

https://sites.google.com/d/1anvejmnHiah5bcWfx2nhhW1OdCXozv5B/p/1Vz147dsKjO67uQ-llsGDLKdk1AjLlUoJ/edit

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https://www.esmprep.com/articles/creativity-in-standardized-testing

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SNAPSHOT OF APPLEROUTH

Key Takeaways on AppleRouth

• It is a reflection to me of the intensity of practice that you want.
• If you are completing your AppleRouth lessons, I will give you many more paper practice sheets to help you continue to grow as a learner!

And now…

Independent time for AppleRouth!

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Get into a rhythm

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If you have headphones, use them!

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