<p>Okay, I can't seem to read and answers the questions in 8-9 min range. I need serious tips...I tried skimming the passage and was able to do the questions, but got 3 wrong alone in 1 passage so that isn't too good. Someone who finished in time what did you do to comprehend it?</p>
<p>Try going to the questions first, then just finding them in the passage. Doing that I can easily finish an entire passage in 4-5 minutes.</p>
<p>I got a 34 (twice). What I did was read it extremely quickly then answer the questions and If look them up as needbe. I had extra time left (about 7 minutes) but I can read extremely quickly with a lot of comprehension. No one else I know has found my technique helpful lol. :p</p>
<p>yah celebrian I tried that and still was stuck for time :(. I can't read quickly and when I try to skim I really don't comprehend much...barracuda can you elaborate on your method? So you go to question 1..read it and look it up in the passage, etc.? How does that take u 4-5 minutes? It would seem like it would take a lot longer and would you need to know the whole context of the passage to answer it?</p>
<p>What you do is first read ALL of the questions, then you read over the passage quickly so that you will be able to pick out the parts of the passage that the questions are based on. Then you should be able to easily answer the question and move on to the next one.</p>
<p>Practice my method for at least one passage, if it doesn't work for you try to find something else.</p>
<p>Okay I'll try it and let you know - thx</p>
<p>I also recommend reading all questions first, and, as you skim the passage, write down the main point of each paragraph in the margin. You can usually find the point of each paragraph in the first and last lines. Good luck.</p>
<p>That method got me a few 34's. Maybe it will work for you, too.</p>
<p>hmm...took me 8:26..what I did was I glanced over the questions and went for the line reference ones and the more general ones I searched for after reading the 1st passage...etc...got 5 wrong along for that section though :(.</p>
<p>Hillier when you say u read the questions first..what do you mean? Do you just literally first read all the questions and then read the passage? Or what...I'm so confused and worried cuz the test is saturday.</p>
<p>hmm... well your in the time range you want to be, you just need to work a bit on your accuracy. I would just keep trying new things and possibly make a hybrid method for yourself. </p>
<p>If you try this method more you may improve both your speed and your accuracy, but the choice is up to you.</p>
<p>thanks..the problem is using that method I'm not as confident for some reason...and I thought I got all those questions right but apparently not because i didn't fully grasp the passage. Did you use the same strategy for all the passage types? I might just try working on my skimming technique. Err...idk</p>
<p>baraccuda what books did u use to practice? I'm doing the problems in Kaplan now to develop a method and then going to try it on the Real ACT book doing a whole section. Right now I'm just timing myself in each passage to get a good time range.</p>
<p>hmm I tried another section by just reading at a good pace and then going to the questions and I was able to answer most without referring back and the ones I was unsure of I jsut quickly glanced back...I finished the first passage in 8:10 getting all of them right!. I think I could've answered the questions a little more quicker. Woot I'm gonna get the hang of it! lol...I wonder how I'm gonna do 4 of these passages</p>
<p>I used PR and the Real ACT book.</p>
<p>Did any of the PR strategies work for you? I have PR and Kaplan (borrowed from library) but PR only has 1 test :-...how accurate is it?</p>
<p>I tried a second passage (2nd pass...humanities) and took me 10:20 and got 2 wrong.</p>
<p>I got a 35 by reading as fast as I could then answering the questions. I was never a particularily fast reader but I read a few books in the weeks before the ACT (while I was sick with mono) and my reading speed improved in just a few short weeks.</p>
<p>I read the questions and then skim the passage, looking for the answer and weeding out the fluff. And i got a 35 on the reading portion.</p>
<p>Err....I just timed myself on a passage...when I read it I got none wrong but it took me 10 minutes...and when I went to the questions first and tried to find the answer by seeping through the passage it took me ~8-9 minutes and I got 4 wrong... I really don't know what method to use. For prose it seems like reading it works best., but idk about the rest. At my pace I won't be able to answer every question. Its tomorrow...</p>
<p>I just took a practice test for reading. What I did was read every passage entirely (2-3 minutes). I had seven minutes left and I just started the science passage, so I skimmed the first two paragraphs and immediately started looking at the questions. The first three questions pertained to the section I was reading about. Then I looked up the line reference questions. And, as I read the line reference ones, it filled in the missing pieces of the story, which allowed me to answer the rest of the questions. I didn't read the entire passage. I don't know, I suppose you just need always have time in the back of your mind and means of answering everything within the reading section.</p>
<p>You guys are lucky that you had a snow day.</p>
<p>IvyLeague your post confused me...at first you said you read the passage entirely and then you say you skim the first two paragraphs and then do line reference...so which is it? Read all which takes up a lot of time but allows you to be more certain about your answers or skim first 2 paragraphs and then line ref? For me they both seem to take up about same amount of time. Maybe I need to stop focusing too much on the time and more on working quickly...errr</p>
<h2>No, I read the first three passages thoroughly. Then I realized I was low on time, so I did the skimming technique for the science passage.</h2>
<p>I just took a science test and did well.</p>
<p>Reading and science were my weakness last time. So I don't know if I should do another two reading and science tests, or if I should do and english and a math.</p>