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ACT or SAT?

ACT or SAT: WHICH IS A BETTER TEST FOR YOU?

ACT

SELF-ASSESSMENT OF MY BEST ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES

SAT

SELF-ASSESSMENT OF MY BEST ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES

ACT ENGLISH TEST:

 I can perform the following ACT standards…

SAT CRITICAL READING TEST:

 I can perform the following SAT standards…

Determine the development of a topic and purpose and focus in texts

 

Read and comprehend long and short reading passages about science, social studies, nonfiction, or humanities

 

Recognize organizations structure texts, use of conjunctive adverbs/phrases to make logical relationships among texts; revision techniques to improve or unify texts

 

Respond to questions about vocabulary in context, inferences, tone, main ideas analogous relationships

 

Correct wordiness, confusing words; delete redundant ideas or unrelated expressions

 

Synthesize and analyze information, evaluate assumptions

 

Create sentence structures and use punctuation and modifiers to revise them

 

Comprehend and compare points of view in two passages by synthesizing and valuating ideas and techniques in the texts

 

Apply conventions or grammar such as pronoun/antecedent agreement and comparative superlative adjectives, reflexive pronouns, present and past participles forms of verbs

 

Understand and select vocabulary words in context and their logical connections to the parts of the sentence

 

Apply conventions of punctuation such as the use of the comma in parenthetical phrases, apostrophes in possessives, & semi-colons between independent clauses

 

 

ACT MATH TEST:

 I can perform the following ACT standards…

SAT MATH TEST:

 I can perform the following SAT standards…

Complete basic operations (percents, ratios, proportions) and applications of operations

 

Solve arithmetic word problems (percent, ratios, proportions)

 

Determine data value, averages; compute probability of an event; manipulate data from tables and graphs; draw conclusions from data

 

Understand properties of integers (prime numbers, divisibility)

 

Recognize and apply elementary number theory (rounding, decimals, primes)

 

Understand the properties of parallel lines

 

Identify place value and patterns, geometric sequences and field axioms

 

Understand special properties of isosceles, equilateral & right triangles

 

Perform operations with complex number, logarithms, exponents

 

Understand rational numbers, exponents and exponential growth

 

Solve linear inequalities and absolute value equations

 

Understand geometric notation, points and lines, slope, angles

 

Write and manipulate linear and quadratic equations and inequalities

 

Substitute, simplify and evaluate algebraic expressions

 

Graph coordinates in a plane & linear equations and inequalities; graph inequalities

 

Solve quadratic, linear, & rational equations and inequalities

 

Use Pythagorean theorem an properties of triangles to solve problems

 

Determine area/perimeter of geometric figures

 

Compute area/perimeter of figures; estimate line segments

 

Identify and determine the diameter, radius, arc of circles

 

Evaluate polynomial/quadrative functions; apply trigonometric concepts

 

Understand function notation. Models, linear functions, equations/graphs

 

 

Complete multi-step problems and follow directions

 

ACT READING TEST:

 I can perform the following ACT standards…

 

SAT WRITING TEST:

 I can perform the following SAT standards…

 

Identify the main ideas and supporting details in texts

 

Understand the consistent use of tenses and pronouns

 

Identify order of events; evaluate comparative relationships, and understand implied or complex cause-effect relationships

 

Understand and apply coordination and subordination of ideas

 

Understand the meanings of words in context; clarify appropriate meanings and effects of language on perceptions; determine use and purpose of figurative/literal language

 

Identify errors in parallelism, noun agreement, and subject agreement

 

Synthesize information and make or disprove conclusions of generalizations about characters, ideas, concepts

 

Recognize effective sentences that follow the conventions of English

 

ACT SCIENCE TEST:

 I can perform the following ACT standards…

Develop a point of view on an issue by using a variety of sentence structures and appropriate supporting details

 

Interpret data from tables/graphs or combined sources of data

 

Complete essay prompt in 25 minutes

 

Understand how to design or modify experiments; form a hypothesis; evaluate data

 

 

Evaluate scientific methods; make inferences about readings & experimental results

 

 

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SAT Potential Score based on PSAT:

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