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ACT Prep Tutor: Test Taking Strategies
Penny Brown
If you're hoping to ace your ACT exam, improving your test taking strategies can make a huge difference. An ACT test prep tutor can help you strategize your approach to each section of the test.
Here are some of the strategies ACT test prep tutors teach students.
Approaching Tough Passages
The ACT is littered with difficult reading passages. If you attempt to read these passages as you might in more normal circumstances, you can squander time and fail to complete the reading section. Instead, there are a couple strategies you can use to save time.
Check the questions before reading the passages. Spending a few moments to skim the questions related to a reading passage gives you the chance to look for key details and terms. When skimming the questions, focus on what each question is asking you to find. In most cases, the questions can broadly fall into a few categories. For instance, a few questions are likely to focus on comprehension. These question stems often start with phrases like, "Overall, the passage…" or "The speaker's main point…." If you see these types of questions, you will need to pay close attention to tone, purpose, and plot. You can often answer these types of questions immediately after you finish reading the passage.
Know when to guess. Some questions will include terminology that you might not know. Although you should never leave a question unanswered, you also shouldn't waste time trying to figure out terminology that you don't know. ACT test prep tutors teach students to skip questions with terms they don't know until the end of the reading section. Once you've finished answering the questions that you feel confident answering in the reading section, circle back to the questions you skipped, penciling in your best guess for these questions.
Working Through the Math Section
The ACT math section is designed to test your basic math skills. As you work through the math section, you can use the process of elimination to whittle down the answer choices.
Estimate before calculating. The first step to solving an ACT math problem should be narrowing down your answer choices from 5 to 2. In most cases, you can do this by roughly estimating the possible answers to a math question. For instance, if the question asks you to calculate the difference between the sum of two questions, you should begin by adding the integers. If the total sum for the integers is too small to make the larger answer choices possible, you can effectively eliminate them from consideration.
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