A topic-by-topic breakdown of math questions on the ACT — October 2024 (US) sitting. Use this to find which study topic each question is testing, and re-drill the ones you missed.
ACT Math Fall 2024 8 featured questions
The ACT — October 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.
Parallel Lines and Transversals — Question 54 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Parallel Lines and Transversals. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Volume and Surface Area — Question 12 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Volume and Surface Area. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Arithmetic Operations — Question 52 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Arithmetic Operations. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Properties of Triangles — Question 41 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Properties of Triangles. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Graphing Parabolas — Question 46 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Graphing Parabolas. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Graph Transformations — Question 42 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Graph Transformations. Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Matrices (Basic) — Question 37 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Matrices (Basic). Most students who missed it confused the setup; review the topic page and re-attempt.
Pythagorean Theorem — Question 46 on the ACT — October 2024 (US) test draws on Pythagorean Theorem. 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.