To set up an ACT tutoring session, send me an email at gregory.faletto@marshall.usc.edu.
To learn more about the ACT, check out the Test Prep Information section of my blog.
I believe effective ACT prep is founded on three things–learning the material on the ACT, learning ACT test-taking strategies, and practicing with real ACT questions and practice tests.
- Learning the material: Of course, to do well on the ACT, you have to know the material that it tests you on. That includes all the math the test covers, basic grammar, vocabulary, scientific principles, and so on.
- Learning ACT test-taking strategies: Even if you know all the material cold, you still have to know test-taking strategies to maximize your score. This includes things like time management, knowing when and how to guess, and how to structure your essay.
- Practicing with real ACT questions and practice tests: Ultimately, this is the most important step. Practicing real ACT questions allows you to test your understanding of the material and the test-taking strategies. It also makes you familiar with the test format and style of questions, which will make you feel more comfortable on test day. Finally, it also gives you a yardstick to measure your progress on ACT prep.
A good resource for ACT prep is ACT Academy. ACT Academy is created by the people who make the ACT tests, so their resources reflect what will be covered on the real test very accurately. You can make a free account there for practice. Using your performance on any PreACT or ACT tests you’ve taken, as well as how you do on ACT Academy problem sets, ACT Academy will create custom-tailored problem sets for you based on what you need to work on. In our tutoring sessions we can work on some of these problem sets together, and you can also complete ACT Academy drills on your own between tutoring sessions.
I’ll bring an ACT prep book to all of our tutoring sessions that we’ll work out of. (The Princeton Review book is my favorite to work out of. I think it explains the concepts in an easy-to-understand way, and the strategies it includes for the reading section are especially good. The Official ACT Prep Guide is also good to have because it’s published by ACT Inc. It includes three actual old ACTs as practice tests, which are the best tests to use to prepare.) Lastly, I have some of my own ACT resources that I’ve collected over the years that I like to refer to.
During tutoring sessions we’ll go through problems, working on the sections where you have the most room for improvement first. You’ll do practice ACT questions during the tutoring session, so that I can help you out with any questions you have about applying the strategies. Then I’ll assign real practice ACT sections for you to work on for homework between sessions.
Click here to get some free ACT resources–strategies that I teach my students in tutoring sessions, and free resources from the official ACT website. Learn more about the ACT by reading the Test Prep Information section of my blog. For more information about my ACT tutoring, send me an email at gregory.faletto@marshall.usc.edu.