How To Improve Your ACT Reading Score: Pro-Tips

The ACT Reading is the third section of your ACT. It follows after a 10 minutes break. The section consists of 40 questions to be done in under 35 minutes. There are mainly 4 ACT Reading passage types: Prose Fiction, Humanities, Social Science and Natural Science.

The ACT Reading section is particularly daunting due to the 40 questions in 35 minutes time structure. However, one should keep in mind that doing 40 questions in 35 minutes is DOABLE. The passages and questions are designed in a way that a student can easily finish this section with ease.

Even if you are not a voracious reader, you can find this section to be easy if you understand the underlying strategies, the question types, the answer traps, and if you practice like a mad person.

We have curated a few useful ACT Reading tips which might help you improve your score by significant points. 

1. The most important ideas are generally found at the beginning or the end of a passage.
2. When skimming, make sure that you pay extra attention to the first and the last lines of each paragraph. This will enable you to keep track of the flow of ideas and the transitions.
3. It is a good practice to reframe the question in simpler words for your own understanding in terms of what, why, and how.
4. Very often, the option choices start with a particular verb or a noun. For eg: A. Persuade… B. Refute…..C.Prove….D. Classify….Knowing what the text says about the question will help you eliminate option choices quickly
5. The primary purpose of the passage is what the author wants you to believe.
6. Questions which are detail-oriented have line references. Make it a practice to read 5 lines above and below the highlighted lines to know the probable answer completely.
7. For vocab-in-context questions, read the relevant sentence while mentally blanking the word being tested and come up with your own word, no matter how simplistic
8. In inference questions, the answer is often implicitly stated in the passage. The option will be of a similar nature. Do not rush to choose the option that jumps out at you.

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