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Reading 36. - Katya Seberson
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Section1
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN a 99TH - PERCENTILE STUDENT and a 66TH - PERCENTILE STUDENT?
Let’s Quickly Examine the Two Types of Students:
Section 2.
ACT Tip # 1
The Use of the Outside Knowledge.
Tip # 2
Know your Speed!
Tip # 3
Know your Favorite Sections
Let’s Learn Test Taking Strategies.
Section 3.
Prose Fiction Passages.
Social Science Passages.
Humanities Passages.
Natural Science.
Section 4.
ACT Reading Sequence.
Question Types Unleashed.
Vocabulary List of Tone Words.
Extended List of ACT Vocabulary.
Answer Traps:
Section 5.
Get excited to become a Skillful Reader!
How to Become a Better Reader?
Becoming a Skillful Reader. Reflection.
Assess Your Reading. Is it interactive?
Rules for Active Reading.
Section1
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN a 99TH - PERCENTILE STUDENT and a 66TH - PERCENTILE STUDENT?
Please meet Dan and Phil. Dan (on the left) is a high scoring ACT student who likes to spend time with his friend Phil (on the right).
Phil scores much lower on his ACT Reading, even though he has the same grades in school as Dan
and shares most interests with his buddy. They both score high on English Grammar and Math.
If we ask Dan, a 99th - percentile student and Phil a 66th- percentile student what they do when they take a reading test on the ACT, they would both say: READ.
For an outsider, that would mean that they both perform the same activity – reading. In fact, if we saw them take a practice test in a library, Dan and Phil would look identical, but they will be reading differently. What do you think Dan is doing that separates him from Phil?
How do you read? Like Dan or like Phil?
You’ve read before, right? Of course, you have. You are reading right now. And I know you read the back of your cereal box many times as well as a few SparkNotes. The good news is that the Reading Section of the ACT is NOT asking you to demonstrate any skills that
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