ACT Prep Reading

How many passages are on the Reading ACT?

How many questions are on the Reading ACT?

Name the four Types of Passages given in the order as which they are on the test in the correct order.

• Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Science, Humanities/Art, Social Studies

• Social Studies, Humanities/Art, Prose FIction/Literary Narrative, Science

• Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Social Studies, Humanities/Art, Science

• Humanities/Art, Prose Fiction/Literary Narrative, Social Studies, Science

When's the best time to stop and reread a piece of text?

• When you come across something you don't understand

• When you are halfway through the text

• After you've already read it several times

• When you are finished with the entire text

when the author pauses in the story to describe events that happened in the past.

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• predicting

• inference 

In order to  make an inference, I must use my background knowledge and what else? 

• Text clues

• theme

• main idea

• stanzas

the who or the what of a passage + the most important information about the who or the what.

• tone

• moral

• main idea

• summary 

What is the primary purpose of the Reading section on the ACT?

• To test mathematical skills

• To assess reading comprehension

• To evaluate scientific knowledge

• To measure writing ability

Which of the following is a strategy for answering reading comprehension questions on the ACT?

• Skim the passage quickly

• Read the questions first

• Ignore the passage

• Focus only on the first paragraph

What type of passage is NOT typically found in the ACT Reading section?

• Prose Fiction

• Poetry

• Social Science

• Humanities