Based on your student's 9/13/2026 PreACT 9 · 50 questions missed or skipped out of 143
I read every missed question and its official explanation, then grouped them by the mistake, not by the report's topic labels. Topic labels like "Inferences" or "Analyze Data" describe the question; what we can coach is the habit that caused the miss. The ranking below is points at stake × how fast the habit can be fixed.
| Lesson | Why it's ranked here | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finish every section, never leave a blank | Every section says "Used all time allotted." He missed all of the last 5 Reading questions and 3 of the last 5 in Science, some after 11–18 seconds, while spending 2½–3 minutes on single earlier questions. One Math question was left blank. There's no penalty for guessing. A 10-minute fix that touches every section. | ~6 |
| 2 | Reading: spot the trap answer | Reading is his weakest section. 11 of 14 misses were answers that were mostly right with one bad part: too strong ("requires", "disproved"), too narrow, or about the wrong paragraph. Two more were vocabulary-in-context. One method covers nearly all of them. | ~13 |
| 3 | Science: read the data exactly | 8 Science misses were reading slips, not science: wrong row, "change in" vs "final" temperature, a unit conversion, using a different variable than the one the passage defined. Pure care and method, no new knowledge. | ~8 |
| 4 | English: four grammar rules Follow-ups: Extra info comes in pairs · Who, which, that |
Four misses, each fixed by one rule (subject–verb agreement, no commas before a name, matching dash pairs, semicolons). The fastest points on the list. | 4 |
| 5 | Science: conflicting viewpoints | He missed 5 questions on a single "four students disagree" passage. This passage type appears on every test, and a note-taking habit (one line per student) is what the ACT itself recommends. | 5 |
| 6 | English: what's the question's job? | 7 of his 11 English misses: add/delete, best conclusion, transitions, sentence placement. Worth the most English points, but it's a judgment skill that takes more practice, so it comes after the quick wins. | 7 |
| ✓ | Math: the missing-letter rule · SOH CAH TOA | Math was already worked through three re-tests. By Version 3 only triangle ordering and SOH CAH TOA were left, and those have their own lessons. | 4 |
| → | Math: full 34-question practice test | A full timed Math section built on ACT's free practice form: the same skills in the same order, with new numbers. Its results table shows which skills to work on next, and its timer shows whether pacing is still costing points. | 34 |
"Points" counts questions on the 9/13 test that each lesson targets. The pacing count overlaps with the others: some rushed end-of-section misses would also be fixed by the Reading and Science lessons.