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Practice 80 Judging validity / evaluating hypotheses questions in the app
What this topic is
On the ACT Science test, judging validity / evaluating hypotheses covers whether a claim or experimental conclusion is actually supported by the studies shown.
A student has to compare a hypothesis with the data, spot weak controls or overreach, and decide which explanation holds. Questions usually follow a short experiment or paired studies and ask which statement is best supported, what would strengthen or weaken a hypothesis, or which conclusion is not justified.
Traps include answers that sound scientific but are not backed by the passage and treating correlation as cause. Choices tend to be brief claims or design tweaks that differ mainly in how far they stretch the evidence.
Every question is picked for where you are right now, wrong answers come back until they stick, and it all works offline.
Practice 80 Judging validity / evaluating hypotheses 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
- Formulating evidence-supported conclusions
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