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About the act writing test.

The ACT writing test is a 40-minute essay test that measures your writing skills. The test consists of one writing prompt that will describe a complex issue and present three different perspectives on that issue. It is a paper-and-pencil test. You will write your essay in pencil (no mechanical pencils or ink pens) on the lined pages of an answer folder that will be provided to you. The only exception is for approved students with diagnosed disabilities who cannot hand write the essay. (See Accommodations .)

The ACT writing test complements the English and reading tests. The combined information from these tests tells postsecondary institutions about students’ understanding of the conventions of standard written English and their ability to produce a direct sample of writing. The writing test cannot be taken without first taking all four multiple-choice tests in the same session.

You are asked to read the prompt and write an essay in which you develop your own perspective on the issue. Your essay should analyze the relationship between your perspective and one or more other perspectives. You may adopt a perspective from the prompt, partially or fully, or you may generate your own. Your score will not be affected by the point of view you take on the issue.

Some colleges require the ACT writing test. You should decide whether or not you should take it based on the requirements of the colleges you are applying to or considering.

Why the ACT Writing Test Is Optional

Because postsecondary institutions have varying needs, we offer the ACT writing test as an option.

Practice Your Writing Skills

Read. Write. Repeat.

There are many ways to prepare for the ACT writing test that don't even include writing at all. Reading newspapers and magazines, listening to news analyses on television or radio, and participating in discussions and debates about issues and problems all help you build a foundation for your writing skills. These activities help you become more familiar with current issues, with different perspectives on those issues, and with strategies that skilled writers and speakers use to present their points of view.

Of course, one of the best ways to prepare for the ACT writing test is to practice writing. But you don’t have to sit at a desk and fill a notebook with essays. Practice writing for different purposes, with different audiences in mind. The writing you do in your English classes will help you. Practice writing stories, poems, plays, editorials, reports, letters to the editor, a personal journal, or other kinds of writing that you do on your own—including, yes, essays.

The ACT writing test asks you to explain your perspective on an issue in a convincing way, so writing opportunities such as editorials or letters to the editor of a newspaper are especially helpful. Practicing various types of writing will help make you a versatile writer able to adjust to different writing assignments.

Finally, don’t forget you only have 40 minutes on test day. Get some practice writing within a time limit. This will not only give you an advantage on the test, but also will help you build skills that are important in college-level learning and in the world of work.

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Everyday ways to improve your writing

You can strengthen your writing skills just about anywhere, anytime. Read below for some ideas to make writing, responding, and organizing your thoughts part of your daily routine:

Tips for Taking the ACT Writing Test

Pace yourself.

The ACT writing test contains one question to be completed in 40 minutes. When asked to write a timed essay, most writers find it useful to do some planning before they write the essay and to do a final check of the essay when it is finished. It is unlikely that you will have time to draft, revise, and recopy your essay.

Before writing, carefully read and consider all prompt material. Be sure you understand the issue, its perspectives, and your essay task. The prewriting questions included with the prompt will help you analyze the perspectives and develop your own. Use these questions to think critically about the prompt and generate effective ideas in response. Ask yourself how your ideas and analysis can best be supported and organized in a written argument. Use the prewriting space in your test booklet to structure or outline your response.

Establish the focus of your essay by making clear your argument and its main ideas. Explain and illustrate your ideas with sound reasoning and meaningful examples. Discuss the significance of your ideas: what are the implications of what you have to say, and why is your argument important to consider? As you write, ask yourself if your logic is clear, you have supported your claims, and you have chosen precise words to communicate your ideas.

Review Your Essay

Take a few minutes before time is called to read over your essay. Correct any mistakes. If you find any words that are hard to read, recopy them. Make corrections and revisions neatly between the lines. Do not write in the margins. Your readers know you had only 40 minutes to compose and write your essay. Within that time limit, try to make your essay as polished as you can.

There are many ways to prepare for the ACT writing test. These include reading newspapers and magazines, listening to news analyses on television and radio, and participating in discussions and debates.

One of the best ways to prepare for the ACT writing test is to practice writing with different purposes for different audiences. The writing you do in your classes will help you. So will writing essays, stories, editorials, a personal journal, or other writing you do on your own.

It is also a good idea to practice writing within a time limit. Taking the practice ACT writing test will give you a sense of how much additional practice you may need. You might want to take the practice ACT writing test even if you do not plan to take the ACT with writing, because this will help build skills that are important in college-level learning and in the world of work.

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ACCUPLACER Writing Practice Test

The ACCUPLACER Writing test is a computer-adaptive test comprised of 25 questions that assess your English and writing skills. To help you prepare for this section of the ACCUPLACER, this page contains everything you need to know, including what topics are covered, how many questions there are, and how you can study effectively.

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How many questions are on the test?

There are 25 questions in total on the ACCUPLACER Writing subtest.

How do you pass the ACCUPLACER Writing test?

There is no “pass/fail” scoring system for this subtest. Your score will be placed on a score range of 200-300. Your placement on that range will indicate your English and writing knowledge and abilities.

To achieve a high score, you will need to spend an adequate amount of time studying for the test.

What is a good score on the ACCUPLACER Writing test?

Your test score will be placed on a score range of 200-300. Within that range are five score bands:

A good score to aim for is the 263-275 score band.

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ALTA's Writing Practice Test (English)

You have been registered to take ALTA’s Online Writing Test. This test is designed to assess your ability to write in a given language. The evaluation is done online with pre-selected questions.

Here are some important things to remember when taking the test:

You will be evaluated on the following :

Computer Requirements :

Also, for languages with non-roman characters, character encoding needs to be set up at Unicode. It’s usually done per default. In case it’s not: in the Firefox task bar, go to view, to character encoding and make sure that Unicode (UTF-8) is selected.

(If “view” does not appear, go to web developer)

It is your responsibility to use the appropriate settings on your keyboard for the language being tested. You will not be able to insert characters with diacritical marks. Note also that the copy and paste functions are disabled within the test. If you do not know how to set up your keyboard to type those marks, please use the character codes (ALT codes). Click here to see those codes and the options based on the device you are using to take the test.

Practice Writing Test – Prompts and Responses

1. Describe a time when you provided assistance to a colleague. Discuss why you took on that role, what you did, and how it made you feel .

Sample answers:

Level 6 Response

I provided assistance to a colleague at work. I work in feild of insurence. We make quots for people about there cars and houses. Quots are for when there is accident or other problem. And they need to get money for the problem. We estemat the money they need to fix the problem. This is when I help people. I like my job. I am happy to help people. One time last week I spok to a man who had a snow storm at his house. The part of his roof of his house fell down. I went to his house. I looked at the problem and made a quot. He got the money and fixxed the house.

Level 10 Response

Last week I helped a colleague finish a project. She was running behind on the project, which had a tight deadline. I saw her notes about the project on our Slack group (workplace chat), and I told her I could work on some of the charts and graphs for the project report. She was extremely thankful. Since I was familiar with the style of the report, it was easy for me to jump in. All I needed to do was ask her where the project data was. Once I had the data spread sheets, I created the tables she needed. We create and market software and apps at my workplace. And our reports show the usage stats for apps over time. We also look at user ratings for apps. The charts I created showed this data. Once they were finished, I sent them to my colleague, and we put them into the report.

The important thing about helping a colleague is finding a role where you can give immediate help. If my colleague had to give me a lot of backround information about the data, or teach me a new skill, it would of taken a lot of her time. Because I found a way to be helpful without needing a lot of instruction, it was beneficial to her. I was glad that I had been able to help her, and proud of myself for being able to identify a situation where I could provide assistance.

2. In the past five years, how has technology affected people’s health? .

With technology such as TVs phones and computers we sit more. We do not excersize. We look at skreens all the time. It is importent to stop watching TV and move around. Help is in apps. There is an app on my phone for counting my foot steps every day. This app teeshes me health and the hours I sleep also. This is good informasion. But is it nessesery? Maybe its better when we excersize without an app. It is also not good so much technology using all the time like reading a phone and watching a TV.

In the past five years, I have noticed more and more people looking at their cell phones any time of the day. People are on their phones at the supermarket, in their cars, or at a restaurant. I noticed that people use to talk on their phones at these places, but now they are looking at the screen instead. Sometimes they are reading the news, or texting, or even watching a television show. It is amazing all the things we can do with our phones. But there are many problematic side effects of using a phone all the time! For one thing, the light from the screen can cause damage to the skin of your face over many years. For another thing, we become disconnected from our families and friends when we are always staring at a phone. Even though we may use them to keep in touch with people who do not live near by, we still need to keep track of the time we spend texting with people on a phone instead of talking to people in the room with us. Lastly, the mental effect of having so much information near us all the time could be damaging. There is no reason we need to know everything instantly. Having a constant “feed” of news headlines, messaging from friends, and other various updates is so much for our brains to process.

3. You recently had a positive experience at a new local restaurant, and you want to let the manager know about it. Write an email to the manager that addresses the following points :

Dear Manager, I love your restaurant! The food was so good. I ate chiken roasted and potatos and these were very different to other restaurants. Also the ppl help us were so nice. The waiter got water and soda very fast. Then food was very fast. This was the best service.

I think the ppl in our town will like the restaurant! Make an ad for the restaurant is my recommend. Thank you!! I will come back and eat the chiken again and I will try the other foods and drinks on the menu. Thank you very much.

Anna Kalmar

Dear Mr. Gilbert: I visited Spring Café last night and I thought it was an excellent experience. My husband and me both had the catfish special and it was delicious. It was also so different from the fish we had at other restaurants in town. Our server’s name was Karen and she was very pleasant. She recommended the catfish and was helpful throughout the meal.

I realized I had not seen anything about Spring Café in local magazines or websites. The only way I knew about the restaurant was because I drive by that corner everyday. My request is you advertise in local publications to let people know about Spring Café! I think people will really love the food and service and become repeat customers.

Frances Young

4. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? Discuss, with specifics, why you would choose this location .

Australia is nice place. Citys like Sydney, Melborn, Brisben, Perth, Canbra, Ares rock, Bondi beach, & the great barrer reef.I went to these places. I liked them all very much. Good wether, intresting buildings & houses, nice people. We had a good meal in all places. We had a good beer in all places. I will go back take my family. We will be near ocein and stores and animals. We will have nice wether in every day. We will have store to sell cloths and juwlry on beach. The friends at home will love to make a visit.

If I could live anywhere in the world, I would choose the island of Mallorca. Mallorca is an island off the coast of Spain. It has become very popular with tourists over the last few decades, however it remains a beautiful place, full of nature and history. I visited Mallorca with my family several years ago and I have lovely photos and memories from our time there. We were there for a week and we got to see some of the stone villages and Roman ruins, as well as the gorgeous beaches. Still, it was not enough time to take in everything about the culture of Mallorca. When I was there, I said I wished I had more time to spend.

5. You are training a new employee at your company. Write a brief list of instructions telling them how to set up a signature for their email. .

1. He must have computer

2. he must have email account

3. he must have internet

4. He must open email program,

5. He must write name and company name

6. He must write contacting info like number and email account and street name

7. He must check the work

8. He must click OK button and save

9. He must open new email. To test the signature.

10. He must set signature. To be on all emails.

An email signature is important to be sure that other people know your work title and your contact information. Here is how you can make an email signature:

-Login to your computer using your login name and password

-Go to your email program. It is probably MS Outlook.

-Go to the “settings” page in Outlook

-There should be a box for your signature. Type your signature in the box. It should have your full name, your work title, your address and your other contact information such as office phone number and mobile number.

-Then click”save” or “OK” to be sure that the signature is saved.

-Make sure you check the box that says you want the signature on all emails (default)

Then open “new message” screen. Your signature should be at the bottom of your email.:

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Sample Writing Test

In the passage that follows, certain words and phrases are bolded, placed in brackets, [ ], and numbered. In the right-hand column, you will find alternatives for each bolded part. You are to choose the one that best expresses the idea, makes the statement appropriate for standard written English or is worded most consistently with the style and tone of the passage as a whole.

For each question in the test, choose the alternative you consider best and blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet. Read each passage through once before you begin to answer the questions that accompany it. You cannot determine some answers with out reading several sentences beyond the phrase in question. Be sure that you have read far enough ahead each time you choose an alternative.

The following paragraphs may or may not be in the most logical order. Each paragraph is numbered in braces, { }, and item 11 will ask you to choose the sequence of paragraph numbers that is in the most logical order.

After you have checked one for each question, click the "Check Your Answers" button.

Items 11 and 12 pose questions about the essay as a whole.

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The ACCUPLACER Writing test is a computer-adaptive test comprised of 25 questions that assess your English and writing skills. To help you prepare for this section of the ACCUPLACER, this page contains everything you need to know, including what topics are covered, how many questions there are, and how you can study effectively.
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ALTA's Writing Practice Test (English)
ALTA's Writing Practice Test (English) You have been registered to take ALTA’s Online Writing Test. This test is designed to assess your ability to write in a given language. The evaluation is done online with pre-selected questions. Here are some important things to remember when taking the test: ALTA’s Writing Test is a 5-question test.
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Sample Writing Test Directions In the passage that follows, certain words and phrases are bolded, placed in brackets, [ ], and numbered. In the right-hand column, you will find alternatives for each bolded part.