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Review of The Official Beginner’s Guide for ACT 2020-2021

December 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

 

Here is a quick summary of what is new about The Official Beginner’s Guide for ACT 2020-2021 1st Edition that was released in February 2020.

  • PreACT Diagnostic Test: The guide provides online access to one full length PreACT diagnostic test that can be used by 9th to 12th graders(highly recommended for 10th graders) to predict student performance on the ACT test. This PreACT diagnostic test was originally administered as PreACT Form 16A in October of 2016.

  • ACT Practice Test (Form 20MC7): The guide contains one full length ACT practice test and this test is identical to the 2018 April ACT Test Form A09. The book also provides access to this same test in an online format.

My recommendation is to not buy this guide, and instead practice with the two original official tests that are included in this guide: PreACT Form 16A and 2018 April ACT Test Form A09.

Circles and intersections with x-axis: ACT Math Practice Question

December 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

 

Try this ACT math practice question that tests your ability to find the x-intercepts of circles.

The circle $(x+1)^2+(y-2)^2=29$ intersects the $x-$axis in two points, one of which is $(4,0)$. What are the coordinates of the other point where the circle intersects the $x-$axis?

  1. $\quad (-7, 0)$
  2. $\quad (-6, 0)$
  3. $\quad (-\sqrt{29}, 0)$
  4. $\quad (-5, 0)$
  5. $\quad (-4, 0)$

Choice B


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Simplifying a hard trigonometric expression: ACT Math Practice Question

December 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

 

Try this ACT math practice question that tests your ability to algebraically simplify a trigonometric expression using trigonometric identities.

$$\dfrac{\cos \theta}{1 – \sin \theta} \quad – \quad \dfrac{\sin \theta}{\cos \theta}$$

When $\cos \theta \neq 0$ and $\sin \theta \neq 1$, which of the following is equivalent to the expression above?

  1. $\quad \sec \theta$
  2. $\quad \csc \theta$
  3. $\quad \cos \theta$
  4. $\quad \cos^{2} \theta$
  5. $\quad \dfrac{\cos \theta – \sin \theta}{(\cos \theta)(1 – \sin \theta)}$

Choice A

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2020 July ACT Form C01: Video Explanations

August 21, 2020 1 Comment

 
Here is a link to the playlist of video explanations to all of the math questions in the 2020 July ACT (Form C01) Test.

2020 June ACT Form C02: Video Explanations

July 29, 2020 Leave a Comment

 
Here is a link to the playlist of video explanations to all of the math questions in the 2020 June ACT (Form C02) Test.

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