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Upload your ACT prep notes, a review book chapter, class handouts or the practice sets your tutor gave you, and the AI writes unlimited ACT-style practice questions with an answer key and explanations in seconds. Drill English, Math, Reading and the optional Science on the material you are actually studying, not a booklet you have already worked through twice.
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In short: to build ACT practice questions, upload your prep notes, review book pages or practice materials and the AI writes questions with an answer key and explanations in seconds. The Enhanced ACT that students take in 2026 has three required sections, English, Math and Reading, with 131 questions across about 2 hours and 5 minutes, plus an optional Science section (40 questions) and an optional Writing essay. Each section is scored 1 to 36 and the Composite is the average of English, Math and Reading only, since Science no longer counts toward it. Math now has four answer choices instead of five, and the recent national average Composite is about 19.4.
Last updated July 2026
Test yourself on your own prep material, not a booklet you have memorized
Most ACT prep runs out of fresh questions fast. You buy one review book, work the practice sets once, and on the second pass you start recognizing the answers instead of solving the problems. Your score on that booklet climbs while your real skill sits still. This tool changes where the questions come from. Upload the notes and material you are actually studying, a grammar rules sheet for English, a page of algebra worked examples, a reading passage with your annotations, and the AI works as a generate practice questions from a PDF tool that writes new items every time. A miss points straight back at the skill to review, and the next set is one upload away.
Upload a grammar and punctuation summary, algebra and geometry worked examples, reading passages you have marked up, or science data-interpretation notes. If the file explains the material, the generator can build questions on it.
Losing points on ACT Math or the fast Reading section? Upload the notes for that section alone and drill it, instead of grinding full mixed tests that keep re-testing the parts you already have down.
Generate a new set each time so you are testing the skill, not recall of a specific question. Repeated retrieval on unseen items is what actually raises an ACT score, and it is the one thing a re-worked practice book cannot give you.
The Enhanced ACT has three required sections plus two optional add-ons. The table below shows how each part is built so you can plan your prep. Confirm the details for your test date on act.org.
The biggest change to plan around is that Science is now optional and no longer counts toward your Composite, which is the average of English, Math and Reading. If the colleges you are applying to want a STEM score, or you are strong in science and want to show it, take it; otherwise you can focus your prep on the three core sections. Math also dropped from five answer choices to four, which slightly changes how you eliminate wrong options. The core test is shorter than the old ACT, about 44 fewer questions, so pacing per question is a little more generous but the fast Reading section still rewards practice. Drilling short, timed sets that mirror one section at a time is the most efficient way to build that speed.
How to make ACT practice questions in 4 steps
The ACT is a speed and pattern test as much as a knowledge test. The content is high school English, math and reading, but the pressure comes from the clock: 45 math questions in 50 minutes, 36 reading questions in 40. You do not raise a score by learning brand new material so much as by getting faster and more accurate on the question types that keep costing you points. That only happens through reps, and reps run out when you have one book of practice questions and have already seen them all.
Generating questions from your own notes solves the supply problem. Your prep notes are the compressed version of what you have decided is worth reviewing: the comma rules you keep missing, the exponent laws, the strategy for a data-interpretation passage. Turning those pages into fresh questions forces you to retrieve the skill instead of rereading it, and retrieval is what actually moves the number. Get one wrong and you do not go searching for an explanation; the source is the file you just uploaded, so the review is immediate and specific.
The loop fits a busy junior or senior year: upload a section's notes, drill a short timed set, miss a few, read the two lines that explain the miss, then generate again on the same weak spot tomorrow. Work English grammar one week and math word problems the next, and the soft spots close in the order you choose. It will not replace full-length official practice tests, which you still need for endurance and timing, but it turns the notes you already wrote into an endless, self-scoring question bank, which is exactly what steady score gains require.
Juniors and seniors prepping on their own schedule. Upload your review notes for a section and drill a short set tonight, without waiting for a tutor or burning through a limited practice book.
Already sat the ACT and want a few more points? Upload the notes for the section that held your score back and drill it until the misses stop, instead of re-taking full tests you have already seen.
Turn a student's own class notes or a textbook chapter into targeted question sets in seconds, with an answer key and explanations, so every session works on exactly what that student needs.
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Upload your prep notes, a review book chapter or a practice set and generate ACT-style questions in under a minute. Keep generating fresh sets until the misses stop clustering and your pacing holds up on questions you have never seen.