Skills and Strategies
What is the name of the strategy where you cross off incorrect answers to narrow down your choices?
Process of Elimination
When you are answering a question that asks, "what is the passage primarily about," you are answering a ______ ________ question.
Main Idea
In prose fiction you pay attention to who in order to find the lesson in the story?
characters
Every question should be answered even if you have to ________!
Guess
How many minutes should be spent on the remaining 3 passages?
11 minutes
What should you do if you get stuck on a tricky or complicated question?
Guess and Move on!
When you are answering a question based on why the author wrote the passage, you are answering an ________ _________ question.
authors purpose
This passage usually includes history, political science, economics, social studies.
Social Science
How many questions are in the Reading portion of the ACT?
40
True or False: You lose points for incorrect answers.
False: You only ear points for correct answers.
If you are someone who often runs out of time on the reading section, what should you do first in order to make sure you are work through each passage?
Read the questions first.
When you have to find specific bits of information from the passage you are looking for what?
Details
You are likely to be asked about the narrators tone in what type of passage?
Prose Fiction
What score do the ACT test makers consider "College Ready" reading.
21
What is the name of the strategy when you make notes on the passage to refer back to?
Annotating
What questions should you answer first?
The easy ones!
The type of question that asks you to identify unknown words.
Vocabulary
Which passage of the ACT Reading would most likely talk about giraffe populations in South Africa?
Natural Science
Do colleges see all your ACT scores?
No, only the set of scores that you send them.
On vocabulary questions, you can often come to the correct word meaning by what?
Reading the words around it or substituting all the answer choices.
You should begin with what passage on the ACT Reading section?
The one you find most difficult.
Questions that require background knowledge in order to answer correctly are what types of questions?
Inference
What type of passage would discuss writing from a personal memoir or essay?
Humanities
Your composite or overall score is made up of what 4 sections?
Reading, Science, Math, English.
The best way to prepare for the ACT Reading section is to what?
Read everyday!