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ACT Reading Test – What you Need to Know

22 January, 2010 (16:17) | ACT Reading Test, ACT Reading Tips | By: Scott

Surprisingly very little!  What I mean is that, unlike the ACT Math test, all the answers to the ACT Reading Test can be found in the accompanying passage.  The only thing you need to bring is your understanding of words and what they mean, and a willingness to think a little bit. The ACT Reading [...]

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 – 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 [...]