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ACT · 2026–2027 enhanced ACT

ACT: learn the skills.

Choose a section, learn its methods, and work from guided practice to independent and application tasks.

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80 original lessons291 explained practice tasks0 missing teaching/practice links in this map

Match your examination and format

English: 50 questions / 35 minutes; Math: 45 / 50; Reading: 36 / 40. Optional Science: 40 / 40. Optional Writing: one essay / 40 minutes. Embedded field-test items mean not every administered item is scored.

Science availability for state/district testing depends on the contract. International enhanced content applies from February 2026. Original practice accuracy is not an official 1–36 score; form-specific official keys and conversion tables must stay paired with their own papers.

Your curriculum map

Each linked lesson includes original teaching and Guided, Independent and Application exercises with explained self-check answers. A topic map is not a measure of your mastery.

English6 mapped requirement groups
Production of Writing

Topic development, purpose and focus

Production of Writing

Organization, unity and cohesion

Knowledge of Language

Precision, concision, style and tone

Conventions of Standard English

Sentence structure and formation

Conventions of Standard English

Punctuation

Conventions of Standard English

Usage

Math7 mapped requirement groups
Preparing for Higher Math

Number and Quantity

Preparing for Higher Math

Algebra

Preparing for Higher Math

Functions

Preparing for Higher Math

Geometry

Preparing for Higher Math

Statistics and Probability

Integrating Essential Skills

Number representations, rates, percentages, measures and multistep reasoning

Modeling (overlapping category)

Produce, interpret, evaluate and improve models

Reading3 mapped requirement groups
Key Ideas and Details

Central ideas/themes, summary, details, inference, sequence, comparison and cause/effect

Craft and Structure

Contextual meanings, rhetorical choices, purpose, perspective and structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Claims, fact/opinion, reasoning, paired sources and graphics

Science4 mapped requirement groups · optional / contract-dependent
Interpretation of Data

Tables, graphs, diagrams, trends and representation translation

Scientific Investigation

Tools, procedures, design and comparing investigations

Evaluating Scientific Arguments and Models with Evidence

Assumptions, predictions, evidence and conflicting viewpoints

Scientific contexts and passage formats

Biology, chemistry, physics, geology, meteorology and astronomy

Writing4 mapped requirement groups · optional / contract-dependent
Optional Writing

Ideas and Analysis

Optional Writing

Development and Support

Optional Writing

Organization

Optional Writing

Language Use and Conventions

Coverage, review and assessment limitations

Coverage follows the named requirements and examples in the 2026–2027 ACT test guide and subject descriptions. That guide explicitly does not list every possible topic. The broader coded College and Career Readiness Standards are also mapped to conceptual teaching and practice; this does not calibrate a learner to a score band. The separate scientific-background context list and reading-complexity rubric have their own stated limits.

Original teaching and explained self-check practice are available. Specialist review and difficulty calibration remain pending. Essays require self-check or teacher review and are not automatically marked or awarded official scores.

The map checks requirement-to-lesson links and the presence of the three practice roles. Multipart tasks develop the listed subskills collectively; they are not separate calibrated assessments of every fine testing point. No course-completion or examination-readiness claim follows from reading the lessons.

Current source checked 2026-10-17. Official specification / test guide · Official content catalogue

Broader College and Career Readiness Standards: see the 492-code conceptual map and all 45 scientific contexts. Score-band calibration and reading-complexity validation remain pending.

Qualification and availability status

ACT National · enhanced format · Active

English, Math and Reading form the core. Science and Writing are optional components; check admission requirements. Official source

ACT State and District · Active · Science determined by contract

Enhanced testing applies from spring 2026; Science optionality is decided at contract level, not necessarily by each student. Official source

ACT International · Active · enhanced content from February 2026

Science optionality and the English/Math/Reading Composite began in September 2025; fewer-question enhanced content followed in February 2026. Official source

Legacy paper SAT and pre-enhancement ACT · Historical format

Older material may support selected skills, but its section lengths, timing and scoring must not be presented as the current format. Official source