West Virginia State Community & Technical College To
Offer ACT Review Classes

The West Virginia State Community and Technical College will offer ACT Review classes for students planning to take the ACT exam.

Actual sample test questions will be used and test-taking techniques will be covered. These classes are valuable for students (1) needing an intensive review program to meet entrance level requirements for colleges, (2) to meet entrance level requirements for special programs of study, (3) to meet scholarship eligibility levels, and (4) to meet eligibility for the Promise scholarship. There will be three subject matter sections.

An eight-hour ACT English Review program will be held from 5 to p.m. on the following Mondays: Jan. 12, Jan. 20, Jan. 26 and Feb.2. The registration fee for the English Review program is $45.00. This program provides a basic review of high school English skills including parts of speech, punctuation, grammar, usage, and sentence structure.

An eight-hour ACT Math Review program will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on the following Wednesdays: Jan. 14, Jan. 21, Jan. 28 and Feb. 4. The registration fee for the Math Review program is $45.00. This workshop includes computations with whole numbers, fractions, percentages, proportions, and decimals. Subjects covered include algebra, geometry, and elementary trigonometry.

A six-hour ACT Reading Comprehension and Science Reasoning Review program will be held from 5 to 7:40 p.m. on the following Fridays: Jan. 16, Jan. 17 and Jan. 30. The registration fee for the Reading and Science program is $ 45.00. The program includes strategies for pacing yourself and for answering questions from reading passages and sets of scientific information. Assorted techniques will be presented to answer questions that require explicit information and reasoning skills to draw conclusions from the passages, graphs, and tables.

All three programs will be held in Room 112 of the Cole Complex on the West Virginia State Community & Technical College campus in Institute, West Virginia.

Register online at www.wvsctc.edu/ContEd.htm. You also can call (304) 766-5113 or e-mail workshops@wvsctc.edu to register. Note that campus will be closed for the holidays and messages will not be answered until January 5, 2009. For information on other programs offered by the West Virginia State Community and Technical College, visit the Web site at http://www.wvsctc.edu/ContEd.htm.