A topic-by-topic breakdown of math questions on the ACT — July 2024 (US) sitting. Use this to find which study topic each question is testing, and re-drill the ones you missed.
ACT Math Summer 2024 8 featured questions
The ACT — July 2024 (US) paper covered every category in the ACT Math taxonomy. The featured questions below are the ones we found students struggling with most when we marked submitted attempts; we link each to the topic page so you can immediately drill the underlying skill.
Most students who stalled on this paper did 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 show up below, not just how many you missed.
Fractions, Decimals and Percents — Question 5 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Fractions, Decimals and Percents. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Midpoint and Distance — Question 11 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Midpoint and Distance. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Elementary Word Problems — Question 58 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Elementary Word Problems. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Basic Trig Identities — Question 10 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Basic Trig Identities. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Complex Numbers — Question 18 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Complex Numbers. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Logarithms — Question 13 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Logarithms. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Law of Cosines — Question 16 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Law of Cosines. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Parallel Lines and Transversals — Question 39 on the ACT — July 2024 (US) test draws on Parallel Lines and Transversals. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Pick your three weakest topics from the breakdown above and work through their dedicated pages. After you can confidently solve every practice question on each topic page, sit another paper and compare your improvement — most students see a clear bump within two cycles.
Browse the full past paper index for more recent sittings, or jump back to the ACT Math overview.