• Study of the ACT’s alignment to the Common Core State Standards, by Achieve, 2018: Less than half of the questions in English/language arts, and less than half of the items in math, were ...

The study, Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam, by Eric P. Bettinger, Brent J. Evans, and Devin G. Pope, suggests that two of the four sub tests of the ...

ACT and SAT reading passages often bombard test takers with much more text than they need to answer the questions. Cutting through the clutter to find the important information is a key testing skill.