<p>I can only say that my score had raised from a composite of 18 to now :
24 Eng
26Math
26Science
Reading 17!!!!!!!!!!
What happened?
I really NEED help on reading, please,
anyone who had mastered the reading section please help this hopeless girl..</p>
<p>How do you know your scores on the day you took the ACT?</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, Reading is hard to study…I mean…You just have to be able to comprehend good…almost no way to study…To master it, you must read a good amount of books…No studying will get your reading scores much higher then where it is now.</p>
<p>dont believe ant, i raised my reading from a 27 to a 33.</p>
<p>practice, buy some act reading practice books and practice. Try different strategies, search these forums there are a lot of how to master the reading threads</p>
<p>Theres two parts you have to consider:</p>
<p>The first, most relevant is being able to read and locate information. Being able to have a ton of time to answer questions isn’t going to be helpful if you don’t know how to get answers from what you just read. So you need to be able to do that more effectively. Try reading books and poems that require careful focus to understand it better. Reading a ton isn’t going to help you if the only knowledge you gain is the storyline of the book.
The second part is timing. There is no strategy that can be absolutely certain to work. One could be careful skimming to give a lot of time to answer questions and review. Another could be to gain a deep understanding of the passage and then answer questions. Neither is wrong from an ideal point of view, but for an individual one can be more effective and easier to learn, getting effective results quickly.</p>
<p>I went from 27-35.
The advice I’d give you, is unlike the SAT - interpret everything LITERALLY*. </p>
<p>To score a 30+ on this test follow a few basic steps:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Skim the passage first before moving on to the passages. Work on speed reading - You should be able to read 500 words a minute and get a general understanding of it. Pay particular attention to the first and last paragraphs because they almost ask for the holistic meaning or author’s intentions.</p></li>
<li><p>When they specify line numbers, read the question, and move quickly to those lines. When they ask "What does _____ mean in lines _____ " all you have to do is find the answer choice that literally REWORDS the passage.</p></li>
<li><p>Work quickly. I stress this the most - take practice tests to get a feel for the time.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>*only questions to not always interpret literally, are the “This word is most synonymous to _____” questions. In those cases, all you have to do is replace the possible answer chioces into the passage, and see if it works or not while retaining the same meaning.</p>