Is there a new ACT science format?
YES. I don’t know if it makes it easier or harder - I guess I get to wait until the scores come back to see - but it certainly confused the heck out of me! I had a whole system worked out of what order to do the passages…
Seems like the ACT Science will be 6 passages instead of 7 moving forward
Not a big deal. It’s just a reorganization of the 40 Sci questions. Instead of 7 passages, now there are 6.
Don’t stress:-)
Yeah probably just good to know so that you can budget your time accordingly (i.e., roughly 6mins per passage instead of 5mins per passage).
Here are the distributions for the science test. These changes went into effect last summer (2014).
Data Representation (30-40%). 12-16 questions. Old distribution was 15 questions/3 passages.
Research Summaries (45-55%). 18-22 questions. Old distribution was 18 questions in 3 passages
Conflicting Viewpoints (15-20%). 6-8 questions. Old distribution was 7 questions.
http://www.actstudent.org/testprep/descriptions/scicontent.html