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act reading passage types
summary
the content provides an in-depth guide on how to approach the four passage types on the act reading test, highlighting specific strategies to effectively understand and answer questions related to each.
- identify the four passage types encountered on the act reading test: fiction, social science, humanities, and natural science, and understand their common order.
- focus on storyline, character development, mood or tone, and dialogue for fiction passages to grasp narrative and character relationships.
- for social science passages, track names with concepts, cause-effect relationships, comparisons, and sequence of events for better comprehension.
- in humanities passages, pay attention to the author's point of view, relationships between events, ideas, people, and the author's feelings and perspectives.
- natural science passages require focus on relationships, particularly cause and effect, comparisons, sequence of events, and scientific laws or theories.
- consider the order of passages based on personal preference and strengths to optimize test performance and confidence.
chapters
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understanding passage types
01:52
strategies for fiction passages
04:15
navigating social science passages
05:28
approaching humanities passages
06:52
deciphering natural science passages
