ACT Reading Strategies-Princeton Review

Test Preparation
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<p>I am a homeschool parent who will be directing an ACT review course.</p>

<p>In preparing I read the Princeton Review tips regarding:
~read the questions first. Underline any key words or phrases. Then SCAN the passage looking for these words and answer those questions 1st.
~Scan passage and mark main ideas beside each paragraph.
~I didn't even get to the loop to loop method.</p>

<p>I tried this myself on a practice test to see if it would improve my score. There were very few "key words" in my practice test ?'s. Those that had key words often referred to a line # anyway. I found it very distracting to go back and scan the passage and mark main ideas. It felt like I was wasting too much time. I ended up frustrated and didn't complete the practice test.</p>

<p>I then looked over another practice test and the only section for reading that had a significant number of key words was the natural science passage.</p>

<p>Has anyone used this technique successfully and scored >31?</p>

<p>Has anyone scored higher than a 31 using the old fashioned quick reading answer the ? method?</p>

<p>Please tell me what worked for you in the reading portion.</p>

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<p>I initially tried PR’s reading strategy as well. It didn’t work. There were only a few questions where it actually helped, and it took up way too much time.</p>

<p>For natural science, I found it to be the most helpful, but still sucking my time.</p>

<p>I eventually gave it up alltogether. If the students are fast enough (I’m a particularly slow test taker) then they should try it out. If a student is slow like me, forget about it</p>

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<p>Thanks, I’m thinking their tips aren’t realistic. Anyone else?</p>