Philip Martin
"Illustrative figures are NOT necessarily drawn to scale..."
Hopefully, students have been taught or intuitively know that reading the directions prior to any ACT test is a waste of time. There is...
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Philip Martin
- Jan 31
- 2 min
English Out of Order
In ACT English, how you prepare matters.
Philip Martin
- Dec 11, 2020
- 2 min
Don't Be Redundant (and Don't Say the Same Thing Twice, Either)
As I've said before, the English test is not looking for your ability to find the one correct answer, but oftentimes, is looking for your...
Philip Martin
- Dec 10, 2020
- 3 min
Backsolving - The Math Multiple Choice Advantage
When I took Calculus I in college, I encountered something I had never seen: a multiple choice math test. The teacher gave us four answer...
Philip Martin
- Dec 9, 2020
- 2 min
Context is Key: ACT English
In my post about English strategy, which you can read here, I mentioned that you should not skip along merrily from one underlined...
Philip Martin
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
$32 + Effort = Improvement...about the ACT's TIR Program
TIR, or Test Information Release, is one of the ACT's most undervalued services. Three times a year (for takers of the December, April,...
Philip Martin
- Dec 3, 2020
- 2 min
Why (and What) High Schoolers Should Read
As a full time high school teacher I've come to expect the groans when I give a reading assignment and, though it's taken me a bit...
Philip Martin
- Dec 1, 2020
- 3 min
ACT Science Strategy: Know What You Don't Need to Know
6 science passages, 35 minutes, 5 minutes and 50 seconds per passage. There were two fields of high school science in which I thrived:...
Philip Martin
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
ACT Reading Strategy...Questions First?
When I took the ACT for the first time, I went in blind. However, at my second go, I had a plan that I thought would have guaranteed me a...
Philip Martin
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Myth (Excuse?) of Not Improving
In a somehow equal world, the playing fields would be the same; everyone would be given a fair shot. The ACT and similar standardized...
Philip Martin
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
ACT English Strategy...Only Read the Underlined?
You should know that the majority of ACT English questions require you to reference an underlined portion of a reading passage....
Philip Martin
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
ACT Math Strategy - Eliminate the 5-minute Panic!
If you’ve taken the ACT, you are probably familiar with the panic. You coast along through the first 20 to 30 problems thinking, “Not as...
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