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The ACT “Science” Test  \nACT Science is weird. Students who are dealing with it for the first time often find it to bethe scariest part of the test. And no wonder! There are strange graphs and charts unlike the ones you normally see in high school science classes. The passages are full of jargon that is probably new to you. And then there’s the time pressure: only 35 minutes to read 7 passages AND answer 40 questions. Coming near the end of an already epicly long test, the Science section may seem as if it were specifically designed to torture the teenage mind.  \nFortunately, the ACT Science section is like your crazy uncle Stan: a bit of an oddball, perhaps, but not that bad once you get to know him.  \nThe first thing you should know is that ACT misnamed the Science Test. It should have instead been called the “Science” Test, because you hardly have to know any science to do well on it. There are only 2 or 3 questions on the whole thing that require any kind of knowledge; therest of the questions are based entirely on the charts, graphs, and passages that are sitting right in front of you. Can you say “open book test”?  \nStudying for the ACT Science section, therefore, doesn’t involve memorizing the kinematic equations or the periodic table. It involves studying the ACT Science section itself, so that you know it like the back of your hand when the big day comes. Let’s get started.  \n2. 40 Questions, 35 Minutes, 7 Passages  \nThe ACT Science section is almost as predictable as the Reading section. It is always 35 minutes long. It always has 40 questions. It always has 7 passages. It even always has the same kinds of passages on each section--Data Representation, Research Summary, and Conflicting Viewpoints--and each kind of passage always has the same number of questions. There are only two unpredictable things on the Science test: the order of the passages and the order of the questions.  \nThe passages can go in any order. Sometimes you’ll get a short passage at the beginning and a long one at the end, sometimes it’s the other way round. Sometimes the easiest passage will be the first one, sometimes the last. Similarly, within each passage the questions seem to be randomly ordered (just as they are the Reading section) . The first question on a passage might be about the last graph or chart, and vice versa. The last question in a passage will often be a tricky one, but not always.  \nThe moral of the story is that you don’t have to do every passage and every question in the order they’re written. You should never do hard stuff when there’s still easy stuff left to do. This leads us to our first rule of ACT Science (which you may recognize from the Reading test) :  \nACT Science Rule \\#1: If a passage or a question seems hard, it probably is hard. Skip it for now and come back later if you have time.  \nIt goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that if you don’t have time to go back to a question, you should just guess on it. There’s no guessing penalty so you should never leave any question blank!  \n3. Three Kinds of Passages  \nThere are three different kinds of passages on the ACT Science section. You will use somewhat different strategies for each, so it’s important to be able to tell them apart. Fortunately, that’s easy to do. Each kind of passage has a different number of questions.  \nData Representation: 3 passages, 5 questions each. It’s easy to spot the Data Representation passages. They have the most pictures and the fewest words, and they always have five questions. Even though the charts and graphs may sometimes be confusing, the questions themselves tend to be relatively straightforward. As long as you don’t freak out when you see a weird diagram, you should eat these passages up.  \nResearch Summary: 3 passages, 6 questions each. Research Summary passages are also easy to identify. They have a balance between words and pictures, and they have exactly six questions. 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