heeeeeeelp! ACT READING

Peytoncline
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:15:26 +0000

i used to be like you… get this… on my first three ACTs, i got a 25, 21, and 23 on my reading sections while getting a 30, 30, and 31 respectively composite… that shows you how sucky my reading scores were to my other stuff… i took 2 more ACTs since then and have made 34 and 35 composite because i brought my reading up to a 32 and 34, respectively… here’s a good strategy that worked for me to get those low reading scores up very high:

just read the passage first… don’t try to understand all of it or comprehend all of it; just read it… if you don’t understand one thing, just mark it quickly and move on… don’t sit there and think about it… you’ll find that by doing this and then going to the questions, you remember more than you think you do… chances are if you don’t understand a sentence or 2 or 3, you may not need to even know it… and if you do, it’ll be for one question only and you marked it when you read through… so you can find exactly where it is quickly and answer the question quickly… i was able to answer on average 4 questions without referring back to the passage… 2-3 i thought i knew, but i checked back to make sure and 2 out of 3 times, my initial gut was right… on the remaining 3-4, i was able to easily find them in the passage and move on to the next one in good time… i may have been a minute behind after the first one (the prose), but i was able to easily regain my time and get ahead of it by the time i got to the last passage

it just takes a lot of practice tests and utilizing quick yet accurate strategy