Conic Sections — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
ACT — February 2025 (US)
A guide to high-yield math topics worth drilling ahead of tests like the ACT — February 2025 (US) sitting. Use it to find the study topic behind the kinds of questions you miss, and re-drill them.
ACT Math Spring 2025 8 featured topics
Every ACT Math sitting draws on the same published ACT Math skill taxonomy. The featured topics below are high-yield skills from that taxonomy; each links to its study page so you can immediately drill the underlying skill.
Most students who stall on a test do so because of a small handful of weak topics — typically two or three categories. The pattern in your wrong answers is more important than your raw score, so look at which topics trip you up, not just how many you miss.
Featured topics to drill
Area and Perimeter — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Solving Trig Equations — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Complex Numbers — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Elementary Word Problems — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Slope-Intercept Form — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Exponent Rules — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Basic Trig Identities — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Next steps
Pick your three weakest topics from the list above and work through their dedicated pages. After you can confidently solve every practice question on each topic page, sit another official practice test and compare your improvement.
Browse the full topic guide index for more test dates, or jump back to the ACT Math overview.