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Skills and Strategies
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Stump the ACT creators
Tips and Tidbits
100
What is the name of the strategy where you cross off incorrect answers to narrow down your choices? A. Reread the passage for understanding B. Skipping the question and returning to it C. Process of Elimination D. Locate details within a passage and interpret them.
C. Process of Elimination
100
When you are answering a question that asks, "what is the passage primarily about," you are answering a ______________ question. A. Main Idea B. Supporting Details C. Cause-Effect Relationship D. Make Comparison Question
A. Main Idea
100
While reading the prose fiction section, you need to pay attention to these A. Characters B. Historical Events C. Science Terms and graphs D. Vocabulary
A. Characters
100
The ACT creators do not expect you to answer all of the questions on each passage, but you know you should answer every question even if you have to______....
guess
100
About how much time do you have on the reading section?
Depends! Standard time - 35 minutes. Double time - 70 minutes. Audio - 105 minutes
200
What should you do when you are stuck on a tricky or complicated question? A. Skip the question and leave it blank B. Guess and pray that it is correct C. Try to use process of elimination and move on to the next question as quickly as possible. D. Spend as much time as you need on the question. You must get it correct.
C. Try to use process of elimination and move on to the next question as quickly as possible.
200
When you are asked to answer a question based on why the author wrote the passage, you are answering an _________________ question. A.Understand cause-effect relationship B. Informative Passage C. Author's Purpose D. Narrator's tone
C. Author's Purpose
200
This passage usually includes history, political science, or economics. A. Prose Fiction B. Humanities C. Social Science D. Natural Science
C. Social Science
200
The _____ your initial ACT Composite score, the more likely your second score will be higher than the first score. A. Lower B. Higher
A. Lower
200
True or False: You lose points for incorrect answers
False: You only earn points for questions answered correctly
300
If you are someone who often runs out of time on this section, what should you do to make sure you are reading the passages strategically? A. Read the Questions first before reading the passage and choose the questions that would be easiest to answer. B. Read the most interesting passage first and then answer all the questions C. Only answer 2 of the passages and bubble one letter for the remaining 2 passages
A. Read the Questions First before reading the passage
300
When you have to find specific bits of information from a passage you are looking for_______. A. Cause-effect relationships B. Supporting Details C. Narrator's Tone D. Main Idea
B. Supporting Details
300
This question would most likely be found on what passage? It may reasonably be inferred from lines 10–17 that James Merrill respected Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry A. Prose Fiction B. Humanities C. Social Science D. Natural Science
B. Humanities
300
What score do the ACT test makers consider "college ready" reading? A. 17 B. 19 C. 21 D. 23
C. 21
300
What is the name of the strategy where you make notes on the passage to refer back to?
Annotating (something you all should do!!!)
400
Name a strategy that helps you earn more points because you focus on the questions you are most likely to answer correctly...
Answer the easy questions first
400
This type of question asks you to identify unknown words. A. Interpreting quotes B. Generalizations C. Main Idea D. Vocabulary
D. Vocabulary
400
This question would most likely be found on what passage? The main point made in the second, third, and fourth paragraphs (lines 14–52) is that the structure of a baby’s brain: A. Prose Fiction B. Humanities C. Social Science D. Natural Science
D. Natural Science
400
True or False - Do colleges see all your ACT scores?
False - they only see the scores YOU send them.
400
On vocabulary questions, you can often come to the correct word meaning by __________ the four answers given. A. Substituting B. Evaluating C. Omitting D. Deleting
A. Substituting
500
You should begin with what passage on the ACT reading section?
The passage you are best at!
500
The ACT has a lot of except style questions - where they say all the following answer choices are correct except? What is a successful strategy to solve those types of questions?
Look back at the passage to find supporting evidence for 3 of the 4 answer choices.
500
This question is most likely from which passage? The point of view from which the passage is told can best be described as that of: A. Prose Fiction B. Humanities C. Social Science D. Natural Science
A. Prose Fiction
500
What does the ACT have that the SAT doesn't?
A Science Section
500
The best way to prepare for the ACT section is to......
read for at least 30 minutes per day!!!!