The College ACT Reading Section
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The College ACT Reading Section
Larry Freedman (Director, Freedman Educational Services) gives expert video advice on: How can I eliminate wrong answer choices on the ACT reading section?; What are the most common mistakes students make on the ACT reading section? and more...
What types of questions appear on the reading section of the ACT?
ACT reading section asks you to answer forty multiple choice questions based on four reading passages. Essentially you'll have to answer ten questions for each passage. There is always one ACT passage that is a pros passage, one passage that is a humanities passage, one passage that is based on social science and one passage that is a natural science passage.
What are the most common mistakes students make on the ACT reading section?
The most common mistake people make on the ACT Reading section is one of timing. They take way too long to read the passage and then rush through the questions. You actually want to do the opposite. Remember, you want to read the passage quickly but answer the questions slowly. Also, students tend to get stuck in one or two questions and therefore eat up a lot of valuable time. With any question, you want to read the question, find the answer in the passage, and then look for the answer choice that matches what's in the passage. If you don't find the answer choice that works, get rid of as many incorrect answer choices as possible, then guess and move on to the next question.