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  • A Quick Reference Guide for Understanding ACT Reading Passages

    A Quick Reference Guide for Understanding ACT Reading Passages

    ACT Reading always contains the same four types of passages: Literary Narrative, Social Science, Humanities, and Natural Science. One of these passages will randomly be a pair of two shorter passages. To effectively comprehend the […]

     
  • ACT and SAT Reading “NOT/EXCEPT” Questions

    ACT and SAT Reading “NOT/EXCEPT” Questions

    Many students struggle with ACT and SAT Reading questions that use the words “not” and “except.” These types of questions require you to identify the one right answer, as opposed to the one wrong answer. […]

     
  • ACT and SAT Reading: Reasonable Inferences

    ACT and SAT Reading: Reasonable Inferences

    Every correct answer on the ACT and SAT Reading sections must be directly supported by the passages in some way. The exams try to obscure this seemingly-simple fact with questions that sound more open-ended than […]

     
  • Changes to the ACT

    Changes to the ACT

    You have probably heard about the recent changes to the SAT. The entire exam has been redesigned from the ground up. What you may not know, however, is that the ACT has had its own […]