Ch 35: ACT Reading - Question Types: Help and Review
About This Chapter
Who's it for?
Anyone who needs help learning or mastering ACT preparation material will benefit from taking this course. You will be able to grasp the subject matter faster, retain critical knowledge longer and earn better ACT scores. You're in the right place if you:
- Have fallen behind in understanding detail and word meaning and other types of reading questions
- Need an efficient way to learn about ACT Reading question types
- Learn best with engaging auditory and visual tools
- Struggle with learning disabilities or learning differences, including autism and ADHD
- Experience difficulty understanding your teachers
- Missed class time and need to catch up
- Can't access extra ACT review resources at school
How it works:
- Start at the beginning, or identify the topics that you need help with.
- Watch and learn from fun videos, reviewing as needed.
- Refer to the video transcripts to reinforce your learning.
- Test your understanding of each lesson with short quizzes.
- Submit questions to one of our instructors for personalized support if you need extra help.
- Verify you're ready by completing the ACT Reading - Question Types chapter exam.
Why it works:
- Study Efficiently: Skip what you know, review what you don't.
- Retain What You Learn: Engaging animations and real-life examples make topics easy to grasp.
- Be Ready on Test Day: Use the ACT Reading - Question Types chapter exam to be prepared.
- Get Extra Support: Ask our subject-matter experts any question about question types in reading. They're here to help!
- Study With Flexibility: Watch videos on any web-ready device.
Students will review:
In this course, you'll learn the answers to questions including:
- What are some tips for answering detail and word meaning questions?
- How do I answer main idea and generalization questions?
- What strategies can help me with cause and effect and comparison questions?
- How should I address author's tone and method questions?

1. ACT Reading: Detail and Word Meaning Questions
Easy points lurk in the detail questions on the ACT, so don't neglect them! In this lesson, you'll learn a 3-step method for answering these questions quickly and accurately.

2. ACT Reading: Main Idea and Generalization Questions
Main idea questions can be some of the toughest nuts to crack on the ACT. In this lesson, you'll get some hints and tips for managing them like a pro.

3. ACT Reading: Cause and Effect and Comparison Questions
Some ACT questions are tricky because they ask you about more than one piece of information at a time. In this lesson, you'll learn about two of those question types: cause/effect and comparison questions.

4. ACT Reading: Author's Tone and Method Questions
Get rhetorical and score some points on the ACT by understanding how to answer questions about an author's tone and method. We'll walk you through examples, plus tips for answering questions on the test.
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Other Chapters
Other chapters within the ACT Prep: Help and Review course
- ACT - About the Test: Help and Review
- ACT English - Section Overview: Help and Review
- ACT English - Punctuation: Help and Review
- ACT English - Grammar and Usage: Help and Review
- ACT English - Sentence Structure: Help and Review
- ACT English - Rhetorical Strategy: Help and Review
- ACT English - Organization: Help and Review
- ACT English - Style: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Overview: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Pre-Algebra: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Algebraic Expressions: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Radicals: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Linear Equations: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Functions: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Absolute Value: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Matrices: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Inequalities: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Probability: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Data and Statistics: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Exponents: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Polynomials and Quadratics: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Rational Equations: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Sequences: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Complex Numbers: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Exponentials and Logarithms: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Coordinate Geometry: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Conic Sections: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Triangles: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Plane Geometry: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Logic in Mathematics: Help and Review
- ACT Math - Trigonometry: Help and Review
- ACT Science Reasoning - Overview: Help and Review
- ACT Science Reasoning - Fundamentals: Help and Review
- ACT Reading - Overview: Help and Review
- ACT Reading - Understanding Passages: Help and Review
- ACT Reading - Literary Terms: Help and Review
- ACT Reading - Practice: Help and Review
- ACT Writing - Overview: Help and Review
- ACT Writing - Essay Skills: Help and Review
- ACT Writing - Essay Parts: Help and Review
- ACT Writing - Planning: Help and Review
- ACT Writing - Advanced Skills: Help and Review
- ACT Prep Help and Review Flashcards