1) To improve your score.  This part is obvious.  We have the best track record in the area, with students averaging +7 point gains on the ACT.  Some students see improvements well into the double digits.  We’ve cracked the code and love every minute we spend helping you crack it too. 

2) To improve your score efficiently. The last thing you need is to waste 18 months reinventing the wheel or relearning slant asymptotes and Boyle’s Law when the ACT tests you on neither. Our systems and strategies help you isolate what’s actually on the test so you can make gains quickly and sustainably.  Quickly enough that ACT prep won’t interfere with schoolwork, activities, or the adventure of adolescence. Sustainably enough that you can take your skills to high school, college, and life. Your ACT Reading strategies will be invaluable when you have to read and distill 400 pages in your literature class and before a big final exam. Your ACT English skills will be priceless when you’re applying for a big job and can demonstrate to your employer that you know how to use FANBOYS commas.

3)To improve your score efficiently while holding onto your peace of mind. At the Krupnick Approach, we turn this test into a game.  It is a game.  In many ways, it’s more like learning how to play chess or basketball than a traditional academic course.  We want to help you get a 35 on the ACT without it turning you into a withered husk.  We want you to get a 35 and soar into the next phase of life. 

Our Philosophy of the ACT:

1)The ACT reflects neither your intelligence nor what you learned in school.  It’s coachable, rule-governed, and just like learning a new skill; we make it fun and competitive.  Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind, but the race is long… and only with yourself. 

2) The ACT has much more to do with attention than thinking or reasoning.  It’s about recognizing question types and applying systematic approaches—not reasoning your way through abstract questions. ACT questions depend on our formulas and rules to test for the right and wrong answers; abstract questions may not have any answers.  

3) The ACT is a measure of how quickly you can move under pressure. Science is an 80-minute test that you have 35 minutes to complete. Reading is a 70-minute test that you also have 35 minutes to complete. Even if you’re a literary critic for The New York Review of Books, you’re not going to be able to sit back and put your feet up for this.  True story: we once had a tenured professor of physics come in to take the ACT Science.  He didn’t finish two of the passages and got a 22.   Our strategies are designed to help you with both accuracy and speed.

4) Unlike your teachers in school, who like you and want you to do well, the ACT is trying to psych you out, trap you, and make you feel inadequate.  ACT test makers are evil geniuses sitting around a round table trying to make you doubt everything you thought you knew.  

5)This is actually a good thing.  It means that there are algorithms, formulas, and rules to neutralize the evil geniuses and outsmart them. We’ve analyzed and categorized 18,000 official ACT questions and over 75,000 answers. There are two types of answers on the ACT: the right answer and the traps. Sometimes the best way to the answer is to go through the trap. Often there is more than one trap. 

6) The vast majority of ACT questions are simply variations of other ACT questions that you’ve already gotten right.  There are 75 questions on the English ACT. Only 21 of those are distinct questions.  There are 60 questions on the Math ACT. Only 30 are distinct questions.  

7) Every official ACT is exactly the same. This is true, by definition, because it’s a standardized test, and if they weren’t the same it would be impossible to compare scores. The only difference from test to test is the language, and that’s where the traps are.  

8) Customized rules vary from student to student and are just as important as the algorithms and formulas we’ve discovered.  Each student has a different orientation to this test.  Some of you may read the passages carefully; others will go directly to the line number questions. Some will use the standard “elimination” method for systems of equations questions.  Others will plug in numbers or use our calculator hack that does systems for you. Our personalized and customized approach is designed to fit you, your strengths, and your weaknesses.