Tips and Tricks
Read through the passage first
Theater, music, art, television, film, architecture, etc. are included in _____________ passages.
Humanities
What strategy is based on your opinion?
Detail questions
This type of trap includes extra details from the text that are not what the question is actually looking for...
Misused details
What type of guesses should you make?
Educated guesses, or process of elimination
Sciences of society, or anthropology, archaeology, geography, political science, etc. are included in __________ passages.
Social sciences
What strategy is based on trends / research?
Easiest passage to hardest passage
What questions require you to understand the implied meaning of a phrase?
Inference questions
This type of trap changes part of an actual detail from the text to trick you...
Distortion
What questions do you answer first?
Biology, chemistry, meteorology, physiology, etc. are included in ________ passages.
Natural science
Which passage is deemed the easiest?
Prose fiction passage
What types of questions have you focus on a whole passage or a whole paragraph?
Big picture questions
This type of trap uses words like absolute, always, never, best, worst...
Extreme
How many questions do you have to get correct to make a 19 on the ACT Reading?
19
What type of passage contains lots of details, technical descriptions, and are linear in organization?
Natural science passages
Which passage is deemed the hardest?
Natural science
What types of questions have you focus on the meaning of a word/phrase in context to the sentence it is used in?
Vocabulary, or vocabulary in-context questions
This type of trap is when the text says the opposite of what the answer choice says...
Contradictions
How do you get better at taking the ACT?
PRACTICE
What type of passage has questions that are about setting, atmosphere, and relationships between characters?
Prose fiction passages
If you do either of the strategies, how many passages will you fill in guess bubbles for?
2
What is a crucial part of doing good on the ACT?
Understanding what a questions is asking
This type of trap is when the answer choice is outside the topic covered in the passage...
out-of-scope