ACT Reading Passage Types
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Introduction to the Reading Test
Summary
The content provides an in-depth guide on how to approach the four passage types on the ACT reading test, highlighting specific strategies to effectively understand and answer questions related to each.
- Identify the four passage types encountered on the ACT reading test: Fiction, Social Science, Humanities, and Natural Science, and understand their common order.
- Focus on storyline, character development, mood or tone, and dialogue for Fiction passages to grasp narrative and character relationships.
- For Social Science passages, track names with concepts, cause-effect relationships, comparisons, and sequence of events for better comprehension.
- In Humanities passages, pay attention to the author's point of view, relationships between events, ideas, people, and the author's feelings and perspectives.
- Natural Science passages require focus on relationships, particularly cause and effect, comparisons, sequence of events, and scientific laws or theories.
- Consider the order of passages based on personal preference and strengths to optimize test performance and confidence.
Chapters
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Understanding Passage Types
01:52
Strategies for Fiction Passages
04:15
Navigating Social Science Passages
05:28
Approaching Humanities Passages
06:52
Deciphering Natural Science Passages