<p>How can I get a 26 Reading ACT to a 30 by April 14th???
I’m using the Peterson’s ACT Reading. 30/40. I missed 2 questions due to time…</p>
<p>Vocabulary: 100% [2/2]
Main Idea: 80% [4/5]
Detail: 71% [15/20]
Inference: 75% [9/11]</p>
<p>Prose: 9/10 -> Idk how I am so good at this section.
Social Science: 7/10
Humanities: 8/10
Natural Science: 5/10 -> Time crunch, and worst section even though I’m good at the Math and Science sections…</p>
<p>I improved my reading from a 25 in October to a 33 in February. I’m not good at reading comprehension at all! My new strategy was to read through the passage quickly (like really quick) just so I could get the basic gist of what is was saying and so I knew where to find everything I needed to from the questions. This allowed me enough time to refer back to what I needed on the ones where it does give the line number. Hope I helped. Good luck!</p>
<p>The only way to really improve is just to practice, practice, practice! My strategy is to read through the passage once at a decent speed (but not really quickly like the previous poster) so that I could both understand and remember details, and meanwhile make small notes in the margin covering what each paragraph was about. Then I went to the questions and used my notes to help me find which paragraph to use if I couldn’t remember an answer, which actually wasn’t very often because the strategy I used really helped it stick in my brain. It got me up from a 29 to a 34. </p>
<p>The best thing to do would be to take a ton of practice tests and try using different strategies until you find the one that works best for you, and then practice a bunch using that strategy.</p>
<p>Sorry, I checked and I was wrong. I went up to a 30. 33 was my science score</p>
<p>Haha thanks. I’m working on my own strategy.
I got 33/40 ACT Reading, which is about a 30!</p>
<p>What I did was Prose, THEN Natural Science. Some how… I got 100% on natural science. Lol.</p>
<p>But dang… I’m fine with a 30 by far, but I literally ran out of time at the end. I couldn’t even get to 8 of the questions (Humanities). And I was skimming too!</p>
<p>Just as PizzaFatFace suggested, speed reading is so helpful. Stay focused as you do this or it will be pointless. I speed read for about 1:30 and then by then I have a feel for the passage and even have memorized where a few key words are. I go to the questions and breeze through. Try to absorb the question and possible answers carefully though because rereading eats up your time. You should be able to finish the passage in 8:30 minutes. It takes practice though. Also, work confidently but NOT carelessly.</p>