The strategy in which you cross out incorrect answers to narrow down your choices
What is process of elimination
100
When you are answering a question that asks "What is this passage primarily about?", you are answering a _______ ________ question
What is Main Idea
100
The number of passages and questions in the Reading section
What is 4 and 40
100
The ACT creators do not expect you to answer all of the questions on each passage, but you should answer every question even if you have to _____________
What is guess
100
True or False: you lose points for incorrect answers
What is False-You only earn points for questions answered correctly
200
What should you do when you are stuck on a tricky or complicated question?
What is mark it and come back to it
OR
guess and keep going
200
This type of question asks you to answer a question based on why the author wrote the passage
What is an author's purpose question
200
This type of passage usually includes history, political science, economics, or social studies topics.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is Social Science passage
200
In order to achieve a passing score of 19, you actually have to answer ____________ questions correctly
What is 21-22
200
What is the name of the strategy in which you make notes on the passage to refer back to?
What is annotating
300
If you frequently find yourself running out of time on a section, what can you do to make sure you are reading the passages strategically?
What is skim, read the questions first and/or annotate the passage
300
Questions that ask about details directly from the passage are called ________ ________ questions
What is Idea Stated questions
300
These are the three ways you can approach reading the passages on the ACT (depending on what works best for you!)
What is Read first and annotate, Read questions first before scanning the passage, Read and answer questions section by section
300
What does the ACT have that the SAT does not have?
What is a Science section
300
On Vocabulary questions, you can often come to the correct word meaning by ______________ the four answers that are given to see if they make sense.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is substituting/replacing/switching out
400
This strategy helps you earn more points because you focus on the questions you are most likely to answer correctly
What is answering the easiest questions first
400
This type of question asks you to use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words
What is Vocabulary
400
This type of passage may include poetry or literature and may ask you about the author's theme and tone
What is Prose Fiction
400
The ____________ your first ACT Composite (whole test) score is, the more likely your second score will be higher than the first score
What is lower
400
Since reading time is limited on this section of the ACT, it is helpful to do what when studying for the exam?
What is time yourself reading and answering the questions
500
What passage should you begin with on the ACT reading section?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is the passage you are best at!
500
Inference questions are more difficult than other types of questions because the ideas are not ____________________
What is directly stated in the passage
500
If you are pacing yourself about how long should it take you to read each passage and answer the questions that go with it
What is 8 minutes
500
The "C" in ACT stands for ____________
What is College
500
Name one thing you should NOT do when taking the test
What is sleep/christmas tree/leave any answers blank/panic!