ACT Reading Test – It’s About the Words
Of course the ACT Reading Test is about the words. That’s what reading is. But so many ACT test takers forget that. Almost every question on the ACT Reading Test can be tied to specific words in the passage, the question, and the answers. You just have to find the specific words in the passage for the question you are answering and match them to the specific words in the answers.
There are several ways you can apply this. I’ll talk about one of them here.
Some questions are answered exactly from the passage. Some require you to do a little more thinking (see below). However, there are usually a number of questions that can be answered directly from the passage.
For example, question #37 (from Preparing for the ACT, 2009-2010. See Where to Find ACT Practice Tests for help in finding this booklet) has you find the one characteristic that is not represented by a yang condition. To answer, you need to find the part of the passage that talks about the yang condition. That is on lines 30-31. It says that the yang condition causes “red face, fever, fast pulse, agitation”. All of those are listed in the answers to #37 except one. The one answer that is not is listed as caused by the yang condition is “pale face”.
There’s nothing tricky here or even much to think about except finding the place in the passage that is being referred to. Find it and it should be pretty easy to find the answer.
Look at questions 17, 18, 19, 20, and 27 in Preparing for the ACT, 2009-2010 and see if you can find the location in the passage being referred to and then simply answer the question from the information you found in the passage.
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