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Learn concepts and strategies to ensure that you not only know how to approach an ACT reading passage but also attack all the 6 question types tested on the ACT Reading Test.

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Intro to ACT Reading
How to Approach an ACT Passage
ACT Reading Test Strategies
Main Idea Questions
Literal Translation Questions
Inference Questions
Vocabulary In Context Questions
Wrong Answer Choices
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Learn concepts and strategies to ensure that you not only know how to approach an ACT reading passage but also attack all the 6 question types tested on the ACT Reading Test.

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Intro to ACT Reading

The SAT Reading Test is tough for a lot of students, and embodies a central complaint many people have about this test: How can you pick just one right answer to a question about a passage?

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How to Approach an ACT Passage

Reading comprehension is question driven. To be successful, you need to be an active reader – quickly consuming a passage’s main ideas and then saving time to locate relevant information within the passage to answer detail-oriented test questions.

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ACT Reading Test Strategies

The single most important strategy to get the ACT Reading questions correct is to plagirize the answers from the passages itself

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Main Idea Questions

If there is one question you are certain to see on the ACT, it is about the main idea of a passage. The main idea is nothing but the primary purpose of the passage.

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Literal Translation Questions

Literal translation questions ask about the details of a passage. In contrast to your approach to general questions, to master literal translation problems, you will need to re-read and grasp details in the passage.

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Inference Questions

Inference questions tend to be among the most challenging types of Reading Comprehension questions on the SAT. Instead of testing your understanding of what is in the text, inference questions test your understanding of what isn’t in the text.

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Vocabulary In Context Questions

Vocabulary-in-context questions are usually among the most straightforward questions on the Reading Test, as well as some of the least time-consuming.

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Wrong Answer Choices

The SAT test writers are amazingly skilled at writing tempting wrong answers, so it’s worth taking some time to understand the techniques they use to avoid falling for their traps.

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