ACT Preparation Camp American College Testing
July 8-20, 2007
GOALS
The ACT Preparation Camp is aimed at helping students increase their performance on the nation's most widely used pre-college standardized test.
OBJECTIVES
The ACT Preparation Camp focus on the content areas of the test. Applicants should have completed a minimum of the academic units listed below by the end of their junior year in high school:
- 3 units/years of English
- 2 units/years of Math (algebra and geometry)
- 2 units/years of natural science
ACTIVITIES
Workshops in personal and professional development
CULTURAL & CAREER ACTIVITIES
College visits to UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, and Univeristy of Illinois-Chicago
OBJECTIVES
- Multiple-choice test taking strategies
- Focused instruction on subject areas included on the ACT, such as mathematics, English, reading comprehension and science reasoning
- Taking the ACT under "test-like" conditions
- Vocabulary, reading and comprehension techniques
- Coping with stress prior to and while taking the ACT
- Pacing and skimming techniques
- Implementing critical thinking models
- Sharpening skills in the areas of: antonym, analogies, sentence completion questions and questions based on reading passages
*PLEASE NOTE : This is a two week residential program. Student must be entering the 10, 11, 12 grade to be eligible.