Throughout the ACT prep class you have been learning several test-taking strategies and other useful information.  My caution to you is that if you don't practice using these strategies, and if you don't continue to review things now, you will be no better prepared when you take the ACT test.  Practice those skills now.

A review of general test-taking skills:

• Eliminate answers you know can't be correct.  Physically cross them out!
• None of these tests is a memory test.  Refer back to the passages as frequently as needed.
• This is not supposed to be an easy exam.  Don't fret if you don't feel like you are acing it.
• Reword or rephrase things so they make more sense to you.
• Each part of the test (except math) is broken into different passages.  Jump straight to the passages that you are more familiar and comfortable with.  For example, in the science reasoning section, there is always a physics passage, a chemistry passage, an earth science passage, etc.  Go to the one that you are most familiar with.
• If any one problem is taking a lot of time, guess and move on.  There is no penalty for getting an answer wrong.  If you have no idea what to do or you are running out of time, guess.

Science:

• Don't fret that you don't know half of the words they are using!  This test is about looking for patterns.
• Instead of worrying about what the funny words mean, look for where they show up on the data table and just focus on the data associated with those funny words.
• Quickly scan the data and graphs reading labels and looking for patterns.  (I like to draw arrows to show which direction the data increases, look for points that stick out as a lot higher or lower than the other data points, note if the pattern changes such as stops increasing, etc)
• The x-axis or key on a graph (or first column or two of a data table) is the independent variable, what was intentionally changed in an experiment.  The y-axis on a graph (or the last column or two on a data table) is the dependent variable, or something that depends on what was done to the independent variable.  Anything not listed on the graph or table is usually a controlled variable (kept the same in all trials).
• The questions usually tell you which graphs or tables you need to refer to.  If they don't, look for phrases they use in the question to show up in the lables on a graph or table.

Math:

• Use your calculator!  Take the calculator you are most used to using in school.  Check the batteries before you go, though.  It would be a shame if the batteries died as soon as you turned it on for the test.  Technically you can solve all the questions without a calculator, but it's not as nice.
• Some of the answers will have square roots, etc.  You can type these into your calculator, turn them into numbers, and estimate which answer looks most appropriate by looking at pictures, etc.
• Although you can't guarantee that the pictures are drawn to scale, they typically are.  Use this to your advantage and estimate angles or lengths.
• Work backwards if you get stuck.  Try plugging answers into given equations and see which one works.