ACT PREPACT score goal
20–24
300 Lift Points
2 correct first tries on fresh checks in each core subject
ScoreLift · ACT prep
Prepare smarter for your next ACT, one 15-minute lesson at a time.
Get ACT practice tailored to your starting point and test date. Understand the questions you miss and strengthen your skills in Math, English, Reading, and more.
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Know your fundamentals? Try one of two free full timed practice tests.
Free Math lesson · Start with one question
Try a question, learn the strategy, practice with guidance, then take a fresh check. Choose English or Reading once the lesson loads.
Your next step after free practice
Turn “I missed it” into “I know what to practice.”
Free questions and timed practice tests show you where to start. Full ScoreLift access gives you guided lessons and fresh skill checks to work on what needs attention.
- A clear next lesson. Use your starting checks and practice-test review to focus your study time.
- Help that makes sense. Work through strategies, visual explanations, and why the other answers don’t work, with videos for selected skills.
- A fresh check. Try different questions without hints and review what you can apply on your own.
What could a week look like?
Session 1: Learn a strategy for a skill that needs work. Session 2: Practice it and review the tricky choices. Session 3: Take a fresh check and choose your next focus. Aim for about 15 minutes per session; adjust the pace to your schedule.
This is an example routine. Your first-week plan uses your focus and available sessions.
Two full timed practice tests · Free
Find your starting point for a stronger ACT.
Take a full-length ACT practice test with a clock you can show or hide. Get automatic section results, review missed answers, and see which skills to practice next.
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Prefer a smaller start? Try the question above.
See how we teach
Watch a harder problem become manageable
Follow a worked example about two ticket prices. See how one comparison leads to the answer, then try a different problem using the same skill.
Explore free Math and Reading explanationsRead the worked explanation
Build a comparison. A theater sells twenty-six tickets. Student tickets cost seven dollars, adult tickets cost twelve, and sales total two hundred thirty-seven dollars. How many adult tickets were sold?
Price every ticket as a student ticket. Imagine every ticket was a student ticket. That would bring in one hundred eighty-two dollars. The actual sales are fifty-five dollars higher.
Divide by the price difference. Each adult ticket explains five dollars of the difference. Divide fifty-five by five to get eleven adult tickets. Check it with fifteen student tickets.
Your next ACT goal starts here
Aim higher. Reach your next milestone.
Picture the ACT score you’re working toward. Turn short lessons and stronger answers into Lift Points, then build toward your next goal.
Lift Points track your practice milestones toward an ACT score goal; a timed practice test estimates your current score range.
ACT score goal
25–29
600 Lift Points
4 correct first tries on fresh checks in each core subject
ACT score goal
30–33
1,200 Lift Points
6 correct first tries on fresh checks in each core subject
ACT score goal
34–36
1,800 Lift Points
8 correct first tries on fresh checks in each core subject
Learn → earn → check your progress. Earn 60 points for your first lesson completion, plus 15 per correct first try without hints, up to 60 bonus points per skill. Fresh checks across English, Math, and Reading complete each milestone.
Reach a milestone, then take a timed practice test to see how your performance compares with your ACT goal.
What’s included
Build skills across the ACT
Targeted lessons, clear explanations, and fresh skill checks help you focus on what needs practice.
Math
Rates, algebra, functions, geometry, and data.
English
Punctuation, sentence structure, transitions, and concise writing.
Reading
Find evidence, draw inferences, and compare passages.
Science
Optional ACT section
Read graphs, interpret experiments, and compare explanations.
ScoreLift also has an optional Writing studio and timed ACT practice tests you can try for free.
Inside ScoreLift
See what you’ll use
Actual ScoreLift screens with sample practice data.
In 2024, a parent began looking for a better way to help his daughter after her first ACT score came back lower than expected. Months of reading learning research shaped ScoreLift’s short lessons, targeted practice, and clear answer explanations. Read the ScoreLift story.
Student stories
Finding a way forward with ACT prep
“Was stuck at 29 and just needed a few more points. ScoreLift let me skip what I already knew and focus on the weak spots. Short sessions for three weeks and I got a 33.”
“This was my first time taking the ACT. I’m busy with APs and sports so the 15-minute lessons worked perfect. Used the visual option a lot on Math. Ended with a 32 and didn’t feel burnt out.”
“Kept getting 28 or 29 and couldn’t break past it. The English lessons finally made the patterns clear. Skill checks showed me exactly what still needed work. Got a 34.”
“First time taking the ACT and Reading was my weakest. The short guided lessons broke it down one skill at a time. Did them between classes for about a month and finished with a 31. Yes! Here come the scholarships!”
“Only had five weeks before the test. Progress reports showed me what was still weak so I focused there. Short lessons plus the timed practice test helped a lot.”
“I took the ACT the first time in February and got a 22. I cried in the car on the way home. The free Math lesson was the first explanation that didn’t make me feel dumb. I did the short lessons almost every day after soccer. When I got the 29 in June I screamed so loud my little brother came running.”
“I’m not gonna lie, I hated studying. My first practice test was a 19. The explanations were short and didn’t talk down to me. I started doing one skill a night while waiting for dinner. After about six weeks I got a 25. It was the first time I walked out of a test without feeling like I completely bombed.”
“I was stuck at 24 for two official tests. Math was my weakest. ScoreLift’s lessons finally broke it down in a way that stuck. I used the 90-day pass and just followed whatever it told me to do next. When I got the 30 (Math went to 33) I was more relieved than excited.”
“My parents bought the monthly plan without asking me. I was annoyed at first. But the lessons were short enough that I actually did them. Reading was my nightmare. I did most of my work on my phone in bed. When I got the 27 my mom cried.”
“I was already in the mid-20s and most people told me that was fine. I just needed to clean up the sections holding me back. ScoreLift let me skip straight to the weak skills. Five weeks later I got a 31. Those five points opened up a lot more financial aid options.”
“First time taking the ACT I got a 17 and thought I was just bad at tests. The free Math lesson was the first time a practice question actually explained why the wrong answers were wrong. Going from 17 to 25 felt huge. I’m less scared of the next one now.”
Start free, then choose how to keep going
Try a free Math, English, or Reading lesson, take a timed practice test, or make a first-week plan. Paid plans open the guided curriculum, skill checks, Writing studio, and progress reports.