NAC005 - ACT Prep

Course Overview

Prepare for the ACT® with UNC Charlotte's Youth Programs. Learn strategies to improve your score through our intensive ACT preparation program. Our ACT Prep Course includes expert instruction, a proven format, all required course materials, access to diagnostic exams, and online support resources in one convenient, affordable package.

ACT Prep Courses Offer:

• Expert Instructors: Our test prep instructors are highly trained professionals. Our experienced instructors know the ACT and care about helping you achieve your goal.
• Proven Strategies: UNC Charlotte’s Youth Programs curriculum was developed by test-prep experts, who have years of experience writing test questions and preparing students for success.
• Online Support: Our online support package for both in-person and live-online ACT courses includes access to recordings of all class modules, an instructor-monitored question forum, and online office hours. Access to the student portal which contains these online resources continues through 120 days after your last scheduled day of class, so you will still have support for your independent practice after your course is over.
• Convenient Schedule Options: Live-Online courses provide alternative schedules and the added benefit of taking the course from anywhere in the world.
• Value: The course fee includes all student course materials, access to online resources, and instruction from a trained professional who cares about your success.

Course Benefits

• Expert classroom instruction
• Experienced, dedicated instructors
• Official preparation guide which includes practice tests from ACT
• Course workbook
• Thorough presentations and explanations
• Review of frequently tested topics
• Access to online support resources

Course Topics

The ACT Prep Course covers:

Test Taking Strategies

• Use the process of elimination
• Master time-management skills
• Minimize test anxiety
• Identify common distractors

Quantitative Topics

• Practice solution techniques for problems containing variables
• Learn efficient approaches to complicated multi-step problems
• Discover tactics for translating difficult word problems into equations

Verbal Topics

• Identify correct idiomatic speech in sentence correction problems
• Understand the basic concepts of rhetorical construction
• Learn which grammar errors are most frequently tested
• Understand which part of the passage to read for reading comprehension questions
• Recognize the difference between global and local test items
• Identify passages written from the journalistic and engaged perspectives

Science Reasoning Topics

• Identify parameters for test items involving graphs and charts
• Interpolate or extrapolate answers from data given in tables
• Recognize the point of an experiment in research summary items

Additional Information

Live-Online Office Hours:

Weekly live-online office hours provide a convenient way for students to get individualized help with specific questions or concerns. The live-online office hours are free-form meetings open to all participants from both the on-campus and live-online ACT Prep Courses. The sessions are “drop-in” and student-directed, so there will not be a planned presentation for each session. Instead, our instructors will answer questions and work through problems in the order that they are received.

System Requirements:

ACT Live-Online Prep Courses and Live-Online Office Hours require Adobe Connect, a free application. All you need to participate in live-online courses or office hours are a high-speed internet connection and speakers or headphones.

About Our Program:

UNC Charlotte’s Youth Programs Test Prep is partnered with Educational Testing Consultants, a leader in higher education test preparation. Each year, Educational Testing Consultants helps thousands of students prepare for the important pre-college standardized tests at major colleges and universities across the United States. Educational Testing Consultants provides a proven program with a record of success and highly trained, top-quality instructors. 

Request a Custom ACT Prep Course or Presentation:

UNC Charlotte’s Youth Programs Test Prep also offers customized ACT Prep programs for schools, nonprofit organizations, and community groups. If you are a high school principal, guidance counselor, admissions department staff member, or community leader and would like details about our custom programs or would like to request a presentation, please call (704)-687-8900 or email us at youthprograms@charlotte.edu.