Ch 38: 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
The reading section of the ACT uses detail and word-meaning questions to ask about a specific word, line, or portion of a passage of literature. Review a step-by-step breakdown of detail and word-meaning questions and solve practice problems to help prepare for the ACT Reading portion.
2. ACT Reading: Main Idea and Generalization Questions
In ACT reading, the main idea and generalization questions require looking at the passage as a whole. Learn about the big questions and strategies for answering these questions, and take a look at a passage for practice.
3. ACT Reading: Cause and Effect and Comparison Questions
ACT questions can be studied or prepared for with appropriate preparation and reading. Learn more about understanding the strategies for answering cause and effect or comparison question.
4. ACT Reading: Author's Tone and Method Questions
ACT reading involves being able to analyze the author's tone and method in a written passage. Explore tone and method questions in ACT reading tests and practice how to interpret and answer them.
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Other chapters within the ACT Prep: Help and Review course
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- 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
- Decimals, Fractions, and Mixed Numbers
- ACT Math - Algebraic Expressions: Help and Review
- Finding, Estimating, and Simplifying Square Roots
- 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
- Mathematical Modelling Uses and Types
- 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
- Types and Examples of Literary Devices Used in Literature
- 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