Reading Strategy
Science Strategy
Reading
Science
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The 2nd step in the Reading Strategy.

what is reading the 1st and Last sentences of a paragraph.

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This is the amount of questions on the science portion that relate to Graph Reading.
What is 16?
100
In order to receive an 18 for a Scale Score, a scholar would need this Raw Score
What is a 21?
100
These are the 3 genres covered in the science portion of the ACT
What is data representation, research summary, and conflicting viewpoints?
100
For the English portion of the ACT, this number of questions are based on Sentence Structure
What is 18?
200
Number of questions and passages, as well as the amount of time, on the reading section.
What is 40 questions, 4 passages, 35 minutes?
200
Prior scientific knowledge makes up this percent of the Science portion of the ACT
What is 10 percent?
200
The 4 passage categories of the reading section
What is Prose fiction/literary narrative, social science, humanities, natural science?
200
The science portion is most similar to this other section of the ACT test
What is the reading section?
200
The math portion of the ACT test consist of this many questions to be answered in this amount of time.
What is 60 questions and 60 minutes?
300
The amount of question that are "meaning oriented"
What is about 12?
300
When a question tells which graph, table or figure will be needed, this is an example of ______.
What is a road signs?
300
The reading portion of the ACT can be considered this type of test.
What is open book?
300
These are the science versions of SKIM and SCAN
What is "Preview the Passage" and "Follow the Road Signs"?
300
True or False: A scholar needs to have a great deal of prior scientific knowledge. Why?
What is FALSE. Only 10% of the test involves prior scientific knowledge.
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This strategy trades comprehension of the text for speed
What is Skimming?
400
The number of questions and passages, as well as the amount of time, for the science portion of the ACT.
What is 40 questions, 6-7 passages, and 35 minutes
400
The reading portion of the ACT is most similar to this other portion of the test.
What is science?
400
The science questions focus more on these than the actual passage
What are figures, such as charts, graphs or tables?
400
Another term for Previewing the Passage is _______
What is SKIMMING?
500

When a question does NOT give a line reference, this strategy can be used instead.

What is scan for the important or highlighted words.

500
Any text that comes before these can be ignored
What are italicized headers?
500
These are the TWO key features of every correct answer on the reading test.
What is Scope and Support?
500
If one part of the answer is ______, then the entire answer is _______.
What is wrong and wrong?
500
This is the amount of passages used in the English portion of the ACT test.
What is 5 passages?
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