Question Types
Passages
Strategies
The Numbers
Grab Bag
100
This is how many questions are on the ACT Reading Test.
What is 40 questions?
100
This is how many passages are on the ACT Reading test.
What is four?
100
The ACT Reading passages aren't arranged in this way.
What is order of difficulty?
100
This is the amount of time you have to take the ACT Reading Test.
What is 35 minutes?
100
This is how long you should focus on a question before skipping it.
What is 30 seconds?
200
This is how many questions come after each section.
What is 10 questions?
200
This is the first passage type on the ACT Reading Test.
What is prose?
200
You should do this first when looking at the ACT Reading passages.
What is skim?
200
This is how correct an answer needs to be to be right.
What is 100%?
200
Questions without ______________ should be skipped.
What is a line number?
300
This is how the ACT questions can be categorized.
What is how they force you to interact with the passage?
300
This passage usually has a political context.
What is Social Sciences?
300
The ACT always has one ____________________ answer
What is unambiguous?
300
This is how long you want to spend reading the passage.
What is 3 minutes?
300
This is the order of passages on the ACT Reading Test.
What is Prose Fiction, Social Science, Humanities, and Natural Science?
400
This is how many types of questions are on the ACT Reading Test.
What is 8?
400
You should keep an eye out for these when reading the Natural Science passage.
What is cause-effect relationships and comparisons?
400
This is one type of wrong answer on the ACT Reading Test.
Wrong Answer 1: Too Specific Wrong Answer 2: Too Broad Wrong Answer 3: Reversed Relationship Wrong Answer 4: Unrelated Concept
400
This is how many seconds you should spend on each question.
What is 52 seconds?
400
This is the only fiction reading on the ACT Reading test.
What is prose?
500
This is one type of question on the ACT Reading Test.
Identify specific details and facts Determine the meaning of words through context Draw inferences from given evidence Understand character and character motivation Identify the main idea of a section or the whole passage Identify the author’s point of view or tone Identify cause-effect relationships Make comparisons and analogies
500
The Humanities passages tend to be written in this way.
What is analytically or journalistically?
500
True or False: you are penalized for guessing on the ACT Reading.
What is false?
500
If you can eliminate at least one answer choice before guessing your chances of getting it right increase from 25% to this.
What is 33%?
500
This is why the ACT Reading test is different than the usual English class tests.
What is Every question needs a single, unambiguously, 100% correct answer?