Tips For Taking The Science ACT

The variable that scientists change on purpose

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable(s):

• Constants

• Control Variable(s)

The parts of the experiment that the scientists keep the same

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable(s):

• Constants

• Control Variable(s)

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The variable(s) that the scientists are measuring

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable(s):

• Constants

• Control Variable(s)

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

As the independent variable increases or decreases, the dependent variable does the same

• Direct relationship

• Indirect relationship

• Constants

• Control Variable(s)

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

As the independent variable increases or decreases, the dependent variable does the opposite

• Direct relationship

• Indirect relationship

• Constants

• Control Variable(s)

List the four things the ACT Science score is based on.

List the four things the ACT Science score is based on.

What two things do you need to have done by the halfway mark?

Match the following

• 24

• Finish gridding in the answers for Passage 1

• 18

• •Finish gridding in the answers for Passage 3

• 00

• Finish gridding in the answers for Passage 2

• 06

• •Set the clock and begin!

• 12

• Finish gridding in the answers for Passage 4

If there are 7 passages in the section, you’ll want to spend about a ____________less on the shorter passages with fewer questions to bank time for the extra passage.