<p>Hi, everyone! At the moment, I'm facing a dilemma... How the hell am I going to get this ACT reading score up? The last practice test I took and I got:</p>
<p>33 Math
34 English
29 Science
28 Reading</p>
<p>And I just took another one, and here are the results:</p>
<p>34 Math
33 English
33 Science
24 Reading</p>
<p>I just screw up a lot when it comes to Math, English, and Science... Those are dumb mistakes, and I think a bit more practice, and I'll be solid. However, when it comes to reading, I'm always narrowing down my answers to 2, and ashfiuwaeiofjawojfoiwajocvw I'd pick the wrong one... A lot... Does anybody know how I can improve my reading score? Specifically, I've seen much better performance in the social science, humanities, and science subsections, but the prose especially trips me up. I think it's because I read out of my textbook a lot. I'm a sophomore right now, so should I spend the summer just reading fiction in general, perhaps some stuff out of textbooks to get more solid practice? Thanks!</p>
<p>Doing this made me run out of time on the actual ACT (I had around 4 minutes for last passage) but I got a 34 reading so I guess it works. Disclaimer, I’m terrible at critical reading that 34 completely shocked me, I was getting tops 31 in practice ACTs with out using this method so idk maybe it works. Basically before reading the passage I go go the questions and underline key words and look for questions with line numbers and or quotations and then underline that in the passage. After doing this I read the passage and try to underline those key words I underlined in the question. So I guess try that and see if it helps, also if your like me and end up with almost no time for last reading passage just read the topic sentence of every paragraph. I was abject to answer 8/10 questions doing this then took educated guess on last two (it was the passage about like art or something). Tell me how it works!</p>
<p>My english teacher told me that reading one newspaper article a day from the New York Times for example will greatly increase your score and I raised my reading score 10 points but what I did was really learn how to “focus” in the reading like I would take as long as I need to to read every word and comprehend the passage and then it would in turn make me fly through the questions easily so practice “focusing” on the prose because if you get into the story you will really then in turn comprehend what is going on and the subliminal messages of what is going on </p>