Hello All,
I’m currently having trouble with the ACT Reading section. In October, I scored a 28 on reading, but that held my score down with all my others sections being 34+.
So far I’ve done about 7 full reading section practices and my score still hasn’t improved. Any tips on how to break this barrier?
My suggestion is to try out as many different techniques as possible. For the reading section there are a ton of different strategies and I think your best option is to keep taking practice tests to figure out which one works best for you.
These strategies can be found on Prep Scholar and all it takes is reading an article. For me, I kept noticing that whenever I had enough time to finish I would score a 35-36, but when I ran out of time and had to guess my score was closer to 30-32, so I practiced going faster on the beginning prose by giving myself five less minutes for the entire section. Once I was confident I could do that I moved the time back and I was able to finish quicker.
Hope this helps!