Make Your Own Questions

A valuable approach to preparing students for the ACT lies in creating ACT-style questions for your own curriculum's content. Science reading passages for experiments conducted in class; reading passages for literature being studied; multiple-choice questions for math units being taught. This approach can make ACT preparation a seamless part of your class.

Try this


  1. Select a unit or concept you are teaching or have taught.
  2. Examine the style of questions ACT builds for your content area.
  3. Create questions based on that style for your unit or concept.

To the right, you will find a blog post from PrepScholar exploring the different question types for the ACT. Below, you will find two YouTube videos exploring strategies for building ACT-style questions for your class. Use both as resources for understanding those question types.