<p>My score for English and reading are low.
Are there any good strategies?
For English I have the most trouble with rhetorical skills.</p>
<p>Try to word on your reading comprehension and speed. To do this, read some fun books like Star Wars, Lord of The Rings, Vampires, Zombies, etc, whatever you are into. This will drastically help.</p>
<p>You need to figure out WHY you are not doing well. Are you not able to read the sections in time, spend too much time on questions, etc.</p>
<p>Most of the reading time is about:</p>
<ul>
<li>focus</li>
<li>reading at a brisk rate</li>
<li>picking out important parts</li>
</ul>
<p>When you are reading try to look for the main idea(s). Stay focused on reading quickly so you can move onto the questions. There are a variety of strategies to approach reading with, some people prefer to look over the questions before starting to read. That way you have an idea in the back of your head of what you should be looking for.</p>
<p>A good hint is if it is not said in the passage, don’t put it down for an answer. If you are able to narrow down a question to two choices, and one of them is more directly supported in the passage, its likely to be the last one. You are rarely tested for your implication skills on questions like that.</p>
<p>Also, the prose fiction piece tends to be the hardest, at least by most people’s standards. That way it may be more beneficial to start on the social sciences, humanities, or natural sciences passages. Go from easiest to hardest, so you can pick up the most points and then spend more time on the difficult passages. You don’t want to run out of time when you have not done your best section yet, you are likely to gain more points by doing the easy ones first.</p>
<p>For rhetorical skills on English, there are no concrete rules or methods in order to pick out the right answer, unlike Usage/Mechanics. I’ve found its probably the best to just do a lot of practice on English specifically in the rhetorical skills questions so you can figure out what kinds of things ACT tests. Paragraph ordering. Is unnecessary wording part of rhetorical skills? Anyway, the questions that test unnecessary wording are usually the shortest answer. Usually. </p>
<p>Hope this helped.</p>