A plan for the days you actually have
Not a twelve-week template pretending you have twelve weeks. Pick a test and a date and the phases below are cut to fit what is left — and if that is nine days, it says nine days.
8 days to go — 8 days, split five ways
Target: 19 September 2026 · registration closed
Sit one full official practice test, timed, in one go. You cannot plan around a score you have not measured.
Work the areas the diagnostic was weakest in, not the ones you enjoy. Untimed at first — accuracy before speed.
Sectional work under the real clock. The clock, not the content, is the ACT's difficulty. Practise at the real pace from the start.
Full-length official tests, at the same time of day as your sitting, no phone.
Light review, sleep, and logistics. Nothing new in the last few days.
The phases are proportioned to the window, allocated in order, and dropped from the end when the window is too short to hold all five — so a very short run keeps its diagnostic and loses its taper, which is the right way round. The days sum to 8, which is the number of days there actually are.