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ACT Reading Test – It’s About the Words

13 January, 2010 (21:27) | ACT Reading Test, ACT Reading Tips, ACT Test, ACT Test Tips | By: Scott

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 [...]

ACT Reading Test Overview

13 January, 2010 (06:41) | ACT Reading Test | By: Scott

Like each of the ACT test sections, the ACT Reading test has a very particular format.  That’s good for you, because the more you know about the test in advance, the better you can prepare. What do we know about the ACT Reading Test? You always get 35 minutes to take the test It always [...]

ACT Reading Test Tips

12 January, 2010 (23:39) | ACT Reading Test | By: Scott

I’ve been helping someone with tips on the reading test, so I’m kind of focused on that right now.  I’ll be posting some of those tips, along with other that I have, soon.  Be sure to check back in the next couple of days. Technorati Tags: ACT Reading Test, ACT Test, ACT Test Tips, reading, [...]

ACT Reading Test – Start with the Right Passage

7 January, 2010 (21:26) | ACT Reading Test, ACT Reading Tips, ACT Test Tips, ACT Tips | By: Scott

The ACT Reading Test always has four different types of passages with 10 questions on each passage. It always has one passage on Prose Fiction, one on Social Studies, one on Natural Sciences, and one on Humanities. You don’t have to go in the order that the appear in the test. Some of these subject [...]

ACT Reading Test – Use Only the Information in the Passage

2 January, 2010 (23:06) | ACT Reading Test | By: Scott

A quick tip for the ACT Reading Test: Only use information from the passage to answer the question. Don’t use any outside information that you might have relative to the question being asked. All answers are found either explicitly in the passage text or are inferred directly from information in the text. If you try [...]