<p>Am I the only one that struggles in the Reading section more than the science? I can get 34/35 on Science and I personally find that section to be the easiest but I just can't seem to get at the reading. I've taken 3 practice Tests so far for reading and I first got a 32, then a 31, and now I just got a 28. It seems that I'm improving in the rest of the sections but my reading score is dropping. Does anyone have any further suggestions?</p>
<p>I've tried skimming the passages, but when I do that I seem to miss alot of the character relationships and moods. However on the last one I tried reading the full passages, and I still got those types of problems wrong. Man, I hate bias question :(</p>
<p>I haven't really tried this method but I've heard about it: read approx. 1/2 of the passage. You should be able to answer more than half and less than all of the questions. When you get to questions that cover the topics you haven't read, skim the passage for key words and read the few sentences quickly to get the answers. This way you have a general idea of the tone and story and are able to answer questions more in context than if you had just scanned for the answers to begin with. I don't know if this results in a faster finish time though, so maybe you should try a practice test with this method first.</p>
<p>I'm having the same trouble so I figured I'd bump this post up. On the practice ACT that I got in my counselor's office I got a 32 on English, 36 on Math, 32 on Reading, and 34 on Science.</p>
<p>I think that that Reading section was the hardest because there's just so little time to go through 40 questions... If I try to read the entire passage then I run out of time but if I just refer to the passage from the questions I usually miss key stuff...</p>
<p>What I've read so far has suggested to spend a minute skimming the passage then about 45 seconds per question. Some of the questions (line reference and use of proper nouns) are really easy to find but if it takes longer than a minute or so for one question, move on and come back to it later.</p>
<p>Well, on the PLAN test (basically pre-ACT for 10th graders) I scored in the 99th percentile for reading and the 90th percentile for science. I did really badly on everything else though.</p>
<p>Well for the science, I basically do what everyone else suggests. Basically just read the questions and quickly look at the tables. The toughest part on the Science is ignoring the big words they use and concentrating just on the numbers. It seems that helps me the most on saving time. But yeah, never look at the data first unless it's like an opposing view situation in which you must read the passage.</p>
<p>This is what the Princeton Review suggests:</p>
<p>-Read each question and underline KEY words only
-SKIM (not read) the passage and underline words the correspond to the questions
-You can pretty much piece it together from there</p>
<p>There's in depth coverage of the strategy in the actual book</p>
<p>i got a 34 on a practice test in reading. what i did was skim the passage really fast, and if i noticed it was just lengthy and repetitive i just read the first 1-2 sentences of each paragraph. then i just answered the easiest questions first like line references. i also did the passages in this order: 4 (natural science), 2 (social science), 3 (humanities), 1 (prose fiction). this helped to get the easiest (in my opinion) passages out of the way. finally, i gave eight minutes for every passage except the prose fiction, which i gave eleven minutes since you have to actually focus on tone.</p>
<p>For reading, I actually read the entire passage then do the questions which (usually) works for me...On my last practice test I got a 36, but on the one before that I got a 26 because I didn't finish the last passage...Reading is also about luck because sometimes you get the hard ones, and sometime you get the easier ones. Science is a killer for me though, and it's always my lowest score.</p>
<p>My suggestions for reading is to read the prose fiction and humanties passages, but skim the social science and natural science passages. If you are a technical person such as myself this should work for you. :)</p>
<p>Just read the whole passage. On the real test ur adrenaline will help u go faster and u probably wont have a problem finishing. At least thats wat i do because i never feel comfortable answering the questions if i dont read the entire passage.</p>
<p>Also, don't second guess yourself. Look at the answer choices and just go with your gut. I was reviewing my reading practice test right now, and I noticed I got three wrong, when I would have gotten them right had I chosen the first answer I thought of.</p>
<p>i never read the entire passage in any of my ACT tests (one in 7th, a practice in 10th, and one for real in February; i've never done any test prep for ACT). i just went straight to the questions (most of them have in text citations) and referred back briefly to the passage. The ACT has no overall theme and idea conflicts and similarity's like the SAT, just meaning and significance in limited context. I hardly ever had a full or even somewhat complete understanding of any of the passages as a coherent whole. Subsequently, i got my only 36 section in reading (35 everything else). NEVER read word for word even in referring. it wastes a lot of time. just scan and only read word by word when you utterly have to (for a particularly hard question very specific in what it is asking). For the questions that sked something like what is not included in the passage, i just matched all the words to my eyes and scanned down checking them off in my head as i went. it helped a lot.</p>
<p>Read. Read. And Read everything you can. Its meant to test your reading speed, not just comprehension. Just read a TON in between now and the test and build up that reading speed. I didn't 'skim' or read questions first, I just straight up read the passage and answered the questions and I got a 36, but, I'm an avid reader.</p>
<p>the 4231 method i talked about that i used on the practice worked for me on the real test as well on saturday. i ended up skimming the important things and only reading the prose fiction. i ended up finishing with like 2 minutes left so i could double check some questions.</p>