Should you read the ACT passages, or hunt for answers?

Well, of course that depends on you and your reading skills.

In general, I try to encourage my students to think outdside the box, within the confines of the ACT itself. If you’re stuck on a problem, move on. If you need to know what happens in line 53 of a story, why are you reading the whole passage? Your time is short, and every question is worth the same amount of point.s In fact, some questions are deliberately written to slow you down. How do you know which ones to look out for? Well, by practicing of course :D

Back on topic though, for those of you like me, who don’t particularly enjoy reading, I highly encourage reading and getting a summary of the questions asked, and working through them in your own order. usually, once you knock out all of your line-specific questions, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what the story is about and what you need to gather from that point. The point of the ACT isn’t to remember any story you read, it’s to get the questions right. Start practicing for the test itself, and not what you’re used to doing in school!