2025 ACT Reading Tips Review

The reading section is ___ questions long.

• 60
• 75
• 40
• 35

You have ____ minutes to complete the reading section.

• 45
• 60
• 30
• 35

The reading section is the ___ test on the ACT.

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• 4th

The reading passages are:

• fiction and nonfiction
• prose, social sciences, humanities, natural science
• drama, poetry, science, politics
• stories, science, politics and nonfiction

The biggest problem people have with the reading section is ___.

• focus
• can't read
• remembering
• all of these

On the ACT Reading, you need to be a(n)  " _______ Reader" which means thinking about the questions you know will be at the end as you read/skim the passage. 

• Slow
• Active
• Studious
• Advanced

How many categories of passages are in the reading section. 

• 5
• 3
• 2
• 4

What is not a category of a reading passage?

• Humanities
• Social Science

• Informational

• Natural Sciences

On the ACT Reading Test, the "Literary Narrative" Passage is a short story or an excerpt from a longer ______ work.

• Fictional
• Nonfiction

Each passage is about ______ words long.

• 600
• 500
• 900

• 200