/01
“Practice sections are finished comfortably with no clock running.”
A timed diagnostic
A full test under real conditions, because on the ACT the gap between an untimed score and a timed one is the whole plan.
ACT tutors
171
ACT tutors on Saal
$45/hr
Lowest rate anyone charges
Scored 1 to 36. Next national date April 11.
The same college admissions job as the SAT, decided almost entirely by pace. Students who know the content and run out of time are the ones this test punishes hardest.
High
What you’ll work on
Five things people say before they book.
One of them is usually the reason. The topic underneath is what a tutor would put the first month into.
/02
“The last passage in every section gets two minutes.”
English and reading pace
Nine minutes a reading passage, drilled until it is a rhythm rather than a panic, plus the grammar rules the test repeats.
/03
“Questions 1 to 40 are fine and 51 to 60 are blank.”
The last ten math questions
Where the difficulty lives and where the time has usually gone. Worked as a set rather than as part of a section.
/04
“The passages are being read before the questions are.”
The science section
Not a science test — a data-reading test with a clock on it, and the strategy for it is a specific, teachable thing.
/05
“Scores are tracked and the wrong answers are not looked at again.”
Reviewing a practice test
Every wrong answer sorted into content, careless, or ran out of time, because those three need entirely different work.
None of them quite it?
Bring the syllabus, the textbook or the last score report to a first lesson. Every ACT tutor here plans against what you actually have, not against a standard course.
How a first lesson is runWho teaches it
ACT, taught by 2 of these 171.
In whichever order you find useful. Thirty minutes with any of them is free, so meeting two before you choose costs nothing but the evening.
What it costs
Priced by level, not by subject.
Tutors set their own rate and Saal adds nothing on top of it. These are the bands they set it inside, the same in every subject, and the lowest anyone charges to teach ACT is $45/hr.
Move or cancel any lesson up to twelve hours ahead at no charge, and the card is charged the morning after a lesson happens. Packages and refunds.
Your first thirty minutes
Thirty free minutes, and this is what they are for.
01
Bring a timed score
By section, if you have it. On this test the section breakdown is more useful than the composite.
The terms, in full
- Free
- 30 minutes
- No card asked for
02
Try one science passage
Timed, in the session. It is the section most students have never been taught to approach.
It will be one of these five
- A timed diagnostic
- English and reading pace
- The last ten math questions
- The science section
- Reviewing a practice test
Questions
What people ask before they book.
Nearby
Where people go next.
The rest of Test prep first, then whatever else is taught at the same levels.
All sixteen subjects