About the ACT
What is the ACT?
According to the College Board, the ACT is "a measure of the critical thinking skills needed for college." We disagree. The only thing the ACT really tests is how good you are at taking the ACT. Students who do well do so not because they are better “critical thinkers” than their peers but because they understand the questions that the exam covers and employ specific strategies that make those questions easy to answer correctly.
What we teach
Our "ACT Game Theory" curriculum leverages the predictability of the ACT to raise your scores by 4 points or more. Rather than focusing on the broad content areas that the test-makers claim the ACT measures, we teach the skills, strategies, and tricks that have delivered real test day success for thousands of students.
| Test Section | Myth | Fact |
|---|---|---|
| Math | ACT Math tests all of the math you’ve learned in high school. | ACT Math tests only a small number of pre-selected concepts in the same way every time. |
| Critical Reading | Doing well on the ACT Critical Reading requires you to learn thousands of new words. | Only 19 of the 67 questions on the ACT Critical Reading test vocabulary. |
| Writing | It’s all about the essay. | The essay accounts for only 30% of your Writing grade. The other 70% is multiple-choice. |
| Overall | The ACT tests how smart you are. | The ACT is deceptively simple and highly predictable. By learning how to take the test, anyone can raise their score |