ACT Practice Tests & Incentives

Students, the ACT is less than a month away and the time to get very serious about preparing for it is upon us.

I have created an ACT dropbox containing 6 publicly released tests:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r5ddcnv6o91dd1x/AABrCBqkzKY2yThGeVr4-2dTa?dl=0

For every practice test a student completes over Spring Break, I am going to give them 3 bonus points on their final Fourth Nine Weeks Grade. This means a student who completes all 6 tests (which would be very time-consuming but extremely helpful to them) will receive nearly 20 points and will almost certainly not have to take the final exam.

The students must not only take an entire practice test to get the points, but they must score them so they can learn from their mistakes (the answers are at the end of each test). Then, for each section of each test, they must provide a one-sentence written explanation as to why they got ten of the questions wrong. For example, an explanation of a wrong answer on the English test could be “The answer was D because two independent clauses must be joined by a comma and coordinating conjunction.”

You do not have to print out the tests to take them, but you can if you want. If you take them on the computer, you should write your answers and explanations on a piece of paper. I will collect all the practice tests and explanations when we return from Spring Break.

Moreover, I am going to put up a $50 gift card to be raffled off to a student who completes at least one practice test.

My hope is that these incentives will motivate students to independently prepare for the ACT, which is less than a month away. Please let me know if you have any questions.