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How many questions are on the ACT science test? |
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How long is the science test? |
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How long do you have per passage of the science test? |
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The science portion is the most what of the ACT test? |
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The science portion of the ACT is based on what? |
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Logic and basic common sense |
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What four science subjects are on the science test? |
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Earth/Space, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics |
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What are the three sctions on the test? |
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- Data representation
- Research Summary
- Conflicting Viewpoints
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What do you do for data representation and research summary? |
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Look at and analyze charts and tables |
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What do you do for research summary questions? |
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Analyze information given on scientific research in passages and charts/tables |
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What do you do for conflicting viewpoint questions? |
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Analyze a package to compare and contrast the viewpoints of different scientific minds |
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Few questions will ask you about what? |
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Background scientific knowledge |
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Data representation packages have how many questions each? |
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There are how many questions for each conflicting viewpoints passage? |
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There are how many questions for each research and summary passage? |
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(Read/Skim) each passage? |
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For each question look and real it very....what? |
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What does extrapolate mean? |
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A piece of extra information, related to patterns |
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What does interpolate mean? |
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A piece of information inside of a body of information, related to patterns |
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What are the three steps to chart analysis? |
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- Determine what the table or graph represents
- Pay attention to units of measurement
- Detect trends in evidence a.k.a patterns
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How do you determine what a chart represents? |
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The title of the graph, the X + Y axis, components, and the key/legend |
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How many subscores are on science? |
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How many datarepresentation passages? |
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When charts look hard the questions are always what? |
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There are how many questions for each datarepresentation passage? |
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Datarepresentation questions get (harder/easier) over time? |
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What does the word "Note" do? |
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Give you a hint to how to answer the question |
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Research and summary questions ask you to analyze a what? |
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Explain the scientific method? |
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- Question/Problem
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Analyze
- Conclusion
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Experimental conclusions to ACT experiments will be displayed how? |
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How many research summary questions per passage? |
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How many research summary passages are there? |
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For research and summary questions you might have to what? |
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Procedure questions can only be answered by doing what? |
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Before trying to read a passage what should you do? |
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What is the Independent variable? |
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What is the dependent variable? |
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Hypothesis will tell you what? |
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Questions that ask you about procedure want you to identify what? |
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Something that is kept constant for comparison |
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What is the benchmark for the Science ACT Test? |
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