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ACT Prep Science Notes
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11th Grade
11/04/2013

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How many questions are on the ACT science test?
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40
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How long is the science test?
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35 minutes
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How long do you have per passage of the science test?
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5 minutes
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The science portion is the most what of the ACT test?
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Wrongfully feared
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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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Five
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There are how many questions for each conflicting viewpoints passage?
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Seven
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There are how many questions for each research and summary passage?
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Eighteen
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(Read/Skim) each passage?
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Skim
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For each question look and real it very....what?
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Carefully
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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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  1. Determine what the table or graph represents
  2. Pay attention to units of measurement
  3. 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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Zero
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How many datarepresentation passages?
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Three
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When charts look hard the questions are always what?
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Easy
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There are how many questions for each datarepresentation passage?
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Five
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Datarepresentation questions get (harder/easier) over time?
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Easier
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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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Experiment
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Explain the scientific method?
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  1. Question/Problem
  2. Hypothesis
  3. Experiment
  4. Analyze
  5. Conclusion
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Experimental conclusions to ACT experiments will be displayed how?
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Charts, Tables, Graphs
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How many research summary questions per passage?
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Six
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How many research summary passages are there?
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Three
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For research and summary questions you might have to what?
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Read the passage
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Procedure questions can only be answered by doing what?
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Reading the passage
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Before trying to read a passage what should you do?
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Check the time
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What is the Independent variable?
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Variable I control
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What is the dependent variable?
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What I am measuring
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Hypothesis will tell you what?
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What your variables are
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Questions that ask you about procedure want you to identify what?
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The variables
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What is a control?
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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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