About ACT Reading
The reading section will give long paraphs of text for you to analyze which contains a set of questions for you to answer on that passage then after youa re done answering those sets of question it moves on to the next passage and repeat until you are done
What does it test?
Key Ideas and Detail (52-60%)
Craft and structure (25-30%)
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas(12-23%)
Key Ideas and Detail (52-60%)
These questions will ask you to determine the central idea and themes, draw inferences and conclusions, cause and effect relationships.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (13-23%)
Understand authors' claims, differentiate from facts and opinions, use evidence to connect different tests that are related by their topics
Craft and structure (25-30%)
These questions will ask:
determine word and phrase meanings
analyze an author’s word choice rhetorically
analyze text structure
understand the author’s purpose and perspective
analyze characters’ points of view
interpret authorial decisions rhetorically
differentiate between various perspectives and sources of information
ACT READING NOTES/TIPS