Due to low attendance and the proven increased performance from one-on-one ACT Prep sessions, we are no longer offering workshops. Please sign up for one-on-one sessions.
ACT Prep workshop focuses on giving students study skills and test-taking strategies that extend well beyond the topic of the workshop.
Our ACT workshops offer students an opportunity to learn in a collaborative, small group tutoring environment. They are ideal for students looking to refresh their current knowledge base or get a head start in a new subject.
The Learning Team’s workshops are effective as stand-alone courses. However, they also pair well with our one-on-one tutoring services. This combination allows students to learn essential strategies in the workshop and master the content in their tutoring sessions.
Find Academic Workshops
Below you will find a comprehensive list of all of the ACT workshops the Learning Team has to offer. You’ll be able to read through a brief description of each workshop and sign up for the workshops right for you.
ACT Prep Workshops
The Learning Team offers ACT Prep Workshops in math, science, English, and reading. We also offer a special course focused on mastering the preferred calculator of the ACT – the TI-84 calculator.
Students can sign up for one-on-one sessions, individual days, or the full, two-day workshop. Each workshop reviews valuable strategies catered to the ACT format and test questions.
The workshops are ideal for high school students preparing to take the ACT for the first time or hoping to improve their scores.
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Who should take this?
- A student hoping to refresh their skills and focus on how to master the first 30 questions on the test
- Students currently scoring below a 28 in math
- Those looking to master the easy and medium level difficulty problems on the test
- Any student looking for a leg up with ACT calculations in the math and science sections
Resources Needed:
TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator for Dummies, 2nd Ed.
Topics Covered:
- Taking control of the clock
- Process of elimination
- Back-solving and plugging in “test” numbers
- Drawing and labeling
- Identifying the essential question and avoiding traps
- When to use the TI-84 calculator
- What to write on the test to work through a problem and when to use mental math
- Guessing as a time-saving strategy
- Helpful TI-84 basics, including hidden menus and techniques for checking answers
- In-depth review of useful TI-84 functions and programs to use on the ACT including:
- Graphing polynomial and transcendental functions
- Using graphed functions for other calculations
- Calculus features
- Storing variables and basic programming
Math and Science Workshop Fee: $350
Upcoming Dates:
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Who should take this?
Any student who wants to demystify the science section.
Science is one of the best sections of the test to help improve your score, yet often overlooked and feared.
Topics Covered:
- Three types of passages and how to approach each one
- Taking control of the clock
- How to read graphs, data tables, figures, and experimental design set up and diagrams
- Interpreting the trends in data and finding patterns
- What to read and when to skim
- Process of elimination
- Identifying the essential question and avoiding traps
- How to mark on the test to help quickly find essential information
- Beating the clock with guessing as a time-saving strategy
- How to save one passage for guessing to giving yourself more time for the other sections.
- How should you approach the “conflicting viewpoints” passage?
Math and Science Workshop Fee: $350
Upcoming Dates:
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Who should take this?
- Students hoping to refresh skills and focus on how to master the eight most tested areas in the English section
- Those currently scoring below a 28 in English OR looking to master easy and medium level difficulty problems
- A student interested in the most important STRATEGIES for handling different question types
Topics Covered:
- Taking control of the clock
- Process of elimination
- Top five grammar areas
- Top three rhetoric areas
- Plug and test
- Identifying the essential question and avoiding traps
- When and how to re-read
- What to write on the test to work through a problem
- Guessing as a time-saving strategy
- How often “no change” is actually the answer
- How to incorporate the overall passage into an understanding of the individual questions
English and Reading Workshop Fee: $400
Upcoming Dates:
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Who should take this?
- Those who want to demystify the ACT reading section. Reading is one of the most challenging sections of the test to improve scores
- A student who wants to take on this section without feeling overwhelmed by the amount of reading
- Students who want to improve their confidence in reading
Topics Covered:
- Determining reading speed and which strategies work best for each speed
- Taking control of the clock
- How to determine which passages to read and in which order to read them
- Interpreting the trends in data and looking for performance patterns
- How to read a passage purposefully
- Process of elimination
- Identifying the essential question and avoiding traps
- How to mark on the test to help quickly find essential information
- Guessing as a time-saving strategy
- How to reserve one passage for guessing to give yourself more time on remaining sections
- Reading the passage first versus reading the questions first
- Wrong answer patterns and how to use them
- What to expect from different passage types
- The underlying skills that the questions are targeting
English and Reading Workshop Fee: $300
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