One Month ACT Study Schedule

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Kristin Fracchia

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Updated for the Enhanced ACT. This one month ACT study schedule was rebuilt for the shorter Enhanced ACT, where English, Math, and Reading make up your Composite score and Science and Writing are optional. Every lesson, quiz, and practice test it links to is current in your Magoosh ACT account.

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Who this one month ACT study schedule is for

One month is not a lot of time, so this is our intensive plan. It is built for students who can commit to about 90 minutes a day, five days a week, plus a practice test on most weekends. If you have two months or more, our two-month schedule covers more ground at about an hour a day. If 90 minutes is too much, the ACT Streaks plan asks for about 20.

How the month works

  • Kickoff weekend: take ACT Test 1 as a diagnostic so you know where your points are hiding before you start.
  • Days 1 to 4 each week: assigned lessons, quizzes, and practice sets, with a time listed for every item. Days run about 85 to 95 minutes, including time to read explanations.
  • Day 5 is Your Pick: review your latest test, run custom practice in your weakest area, and work through a module you choose. Each Your Pick day comes with a suggestion if you are not sure.
  • Weekends: full practice tests after Weeks 2 and 3, with the review built into the following Monday. The first weekend is your choice: an optional extra test or a catch-up weekend.
  • Science and Writing: clearly labeled optional blocks every week, timed separately, so you can skip them cleanly if you are not taking those sections.

What you will cover

The schedule is frequency-ranked, so the topics that show up most on the Enhanced ACT come first: writer’s goal, sentence structure, punctuation, transitions, and word choice in English; word problems, percents and ratios, lines and slope, quadratics, function notation, geometry, and probability in Math; and detail, line-reference, purpose, inference, and comparison-passage questions in Reading. Less common topics are listed as Your Pick suggestions for students chasing a top score.

Before you start

You will need a Magoosh ACT Premium account, since every assignment lives inside the course, and a notebook for your weak-spot list. Not sure where you stand yet? Take our free ACT practice test first. Looking for a different timeline? See all five Magoosh ACT study schedules.

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Author

  • Kristin Fracchia

    Dr. Kristin Fracchia has over fifteen years of expertise in college and graduate school admissions and with a variety of standardized tests, including the ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, and LSAT, with several 99% scores. She had a PhD from the University of California, Irvine, an MA degree from The Catholic University, and BA degrees in Secondary Education and English Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. She was the recipient of the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award and the Chancellor’s Club Fellowship from the University of California, Irvine. She’s worked as a high school teacher and university professor, as an independent college and graduate school admissions counselor, and as an expert tutor for standardized tests, helping hundreds of students gain acceptance into premier national and international institutions. She now develops accessible and effective edtech products for Magoosh. Her free online content and YouTube videos providing test prep and college admissions advice have received over 6 million views in over 125 countries. Kristin is an advocate for improving access to education: you can check out her TEDx talk on the topic. Follow Kristin on LinkedIn!

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