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Formulating evidence-supported conclusions — ACT practice questions
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What this topic is
Formulating evidence-supported conclusions on the ACT Science test means deciding what a passage's experiments and data actually show.
A student must choose the conclusion backed by the tables, figures, or procedures rather than by outside knowledge. Items often present a claim or two competing interpretations and ask which statement the evidence supports, or which result would confirm or weaken a given conclusion.
Common traps are answers that go beyond what was measured, mix up variables, or apply a trend from one figure to a different condition. Answer choices are usually complete sentences that sound scientific until they are checked against the data.
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Practice 72 Formulating evidence-supported conclusions questions in the app
More ACT topics
Science
- Reading values from tables, graphs, and diagrams
- Recognizing relationships and trends in data
- Interpolation and extrapolation
- Translating between tables and graphs
- Experimental design, tools, and procedures
- Identifying controls, variables, and hypotheses
- Comparing and interpreting results across experiments
- Predicting and extending experiments
- Summarizing competing hypotheses/theories
- Comparing and contrasting alternative viewpoints
- Evaluating support for each viewpoint
- Reasoning mathematically about data
- Judging validity / evaluating hypotheses
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