How To Get A Perfect 36 on the ACT Reading Test - 5 Tips and Strategies From A Perfect Scorer
Summary
TLDRThis video offers proven strategies for mastering the ACT Reading Test, shared by a seasoned test prep tutor with a track record of perfect scores. The tutor outlines five key tips: understanding the test structure, finding a personalized strategy, identifying easy questions, skipping broad passage questions until last, and pacing effectively. The script also introduces a unique 'Label, Then Read' method to streamline the reading process and emphasizes the importance of practice and independent thinking in achieving a perfect score.
Takeaways
- 📚 Understand the ACT Reading Test: Start with the basics of how the test works to grasp the structure and strategy required for success.
- 🕵️♂️ Evidence is Key: All correct answers in the ACT Reading are directly supported by evidence in the passage, allowing you to pinpoint the right choice.
- 🔍 Find Your Strategy: There is no one-size-fits-all approach; try different strategies through practice tests and stick to the one that works best for you.
- 🏷️ Label Then Read: A unique method where you label questions referencing specific lines or paragraphs first, then read the passage with these in mind for efficiency.
- ⏱️ Time Management: Pace yourself with the '32nd rule', moving on from questions if you can't find the answer within 20-30 seconds to maximize time usage.
- 🎯 Spot Easy Questions: The ACT hints at easy questions with certain words, allowing you to quickly identify answers stated directly in the passage.
- 📚 Skip Broad Passage Questions: Tackle specific questions first and return to broad passage questions last, after gaining a deeper understanding of the text.
- 📉 Independent Thinking: Develop your own method and don't just follow others' advice blindly; what works for one may not work for you.
- 📈 Practice with the Nine-Minute Drill: Break down practice into timed segments to simulate the test environment and improve pacing.
- 📝 Analyze Mistakes: After each practice, review and understand why you got questions wrong to refine your approach.
- 📚 In-Depth Understanding: For a perfect score, go beyond basic tips and delve into expert-level comprehension of the test.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is strategies, tips, and tricks for achieving a perfect score on the ACT reading test.
What are the three main reasons students struggle with the ACT reading test according to the script?
-Students struggle with the ACT reading test due to strategic approach, time management, and understanding what makes answers right versus wrong.
What is the 'Where's Waldo' analogy used to illustrate in the context of the ACT reading test?
-The 'Where's Waldo' analogy is used to illustrate that all the evidence needed to determine the correct answers is directly in the passage, and there's no need for guessing or storytelling.
What is the 'Label, Then Read' strategy mentioned in the video?
-The 'Label, Then Read' strategy involves quickly scanning the questions first to identify specific line or paragraph references, labeling them, and then reading the passage with these in mind to answer questions more efficiently.
What is the significance of the 'Nine Minute Drill' method suggested for practicing the ACT reading test?
-The 'Nine Minute Drill' method helps students get used to the pacing of the test by doing one passage at a time with a nine-minute timer, analyzing missed questions, and understanding their mistakes to improve.
What is the '32nd rule' mentioned in the video for time management during the ACT reading test?
-The '32nd rule' advises students to move on from a question if they cannot find the answer within 20 to 30 seconds, allowing them to return to it later or guess if necessary to ensure all questions are attempted.
What does the video suggest about finding the best strategy for the ACT reading test?
-The video suggests that students should try different approaches, find the one that works best for them, and practice it repeatedly to improve their performance on the ACT reading test.
How does the video define 'clear evidence questions' in the context of the ACT reading test?
-Clear evidence questions are those that contain specific words indicating the answers are directly stated or restated in the passage, making them easier to identify and answer.
What is the advice given for handling broad passage questions in the ACT reading test?
-The advice is to skip the broad passage questions initially, answer the rest of the questions to gain a better understanding of the passage, and then return to these questions at the end for improved accuracy and time efficiency.
What resources does the video mention for further help with the ACT reading test?
-The video mentions the presenter's AST reading book with over 100 pages of strategies, an ultimate ACT reading course with over 10 hours of video lessons, and the suggestion to use free resources like the 'Nine Minute Drill' for practice.
What is the final piece of advice given in the video for students preparing for the ACT reading test?
-The final piece of advice is for students to think independently, practice their chosen method, and become experts at it, rather than blindly following advice that may not suit their individual needs.
Outlines
📚 Mastering the ACT Reading Test
This paragraph introduces the video's aim to share effective strategies for achieving a perfect score on the ACT reading test. The speaker, a seasoned test prep tutor, outlines their qualifications, including perfect scores on ACT reading sections and successful outcomes for their students. The speaker promises to deliver five top tips for understanding and excelling in the reading test, along with resources for further preparation. The first tip emphasizes understanding the test's structure and common student struggles, like strategic approach, time management, and discerning correct answers. The ACT reading test is likened to a 'Where's Waldo' exercise, where evidence for correct answers is explicitly present in the text.
🔍 Developing Personalized Strategies for ACT Reading
The second paragraph delves into the importance of finding a personalized strategy for the ACT reading test, with the speaker highlighting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach. The speaker introduces the 'label then read' method, a unique strategy where students quickly identify question numbers in the text and label them before reading in detail. This method aims to enhance time management and focus by allowing students to answer questions as they read, reducing the need for rereading and improving the chances of finding the correct answers quickly. The speaker also mentions a comprehensive reading book that includes over 100 pages of strategies and tips for achieving perfect scores.
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Keywords
💡ACT reading test
💡Strategies
💡Test prep tutor
💡Perfect score
💡Evidence
💡Time management
💡Label then read
💡Clear evidence question
💡Broad passage questions
💡Pace
💡Nine-minute drill
💡Independent thinking
Highlights
The speaker is a full-time test prep tutor with nine years of experience and a perfect ACT reading score.
In 2022, four of the speaker's students achieved a perfect 36 on the entire ACT, and 13 students scored a perfect 36 on the reading section.
The ACT reading test is likened to 'Where's Waldo', with all evidence for correct answers directly in the passage.
Students typically struggle with strategy, time management, and understanding what makes an answer right or wrong on the ACT reading.
Tip 1: Understand the basics of the ACT reading test before moving on to advanced tips.
Tip 2: Find the best strategy for oneself, as there is no universally best approach to the ACT reading test.
The 'Label, Then Read' method is introduced, which involves identifying specific line or paragraph references in questions first.
Tip 3: The ACT reveals easy questions through the use of certain words, indicating clear evidence in the passage.
Tip 4: Skip broad passage questions initially and return to them after answering more specific ones to save time and improve accuracy.
Tip 5: Learn to pace yourself correctly on the ACT reading, using the '32nd rule' for time management on difficult questions.
The speaker offers a 9-minute drill exercise to help students get used to the test's pacing and analyze their mistakes.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of thinking independently and finding what works best for the individual.
The speaker provides a comprehensive ACT reading book with over 100 pages of strategies for achieving perfect scores.
The speaker's ultimate ACT reading course includes over 10 hours of video teaching everything needed to achieve top scores.
The speaker encourages students to subscribe for more ACT test prep videos released weekly.
The speaker promises to respond to comments and questions about ACT reading, study tips, or related topics.
Transcripts
are you taking the ACT soon and want to
learn how to crush the ACT reading test
and get a perfect score if so in this
video I'm going to share some of my best
strategies tips and tricks that have
helped many of my students score
perfectly on the ACT reading now if
you're asking yourself why am I
qualified to give you this advice well
I've been a full-time test prep tutor
for the last nine years I've scored
perfectly on every single act reading on
the released acts since 2016 and more
importantly I know how to teach this
test in 2022 four of my students
achieved a perfect 36 for the entire
test and I had 13 students get a perfect
36 on the reading now in the rest of
this video I'm going to share five of my
best tips that are going to help you
understand the reading test at a really
high level and prepare you to get a
perfect score I'm also going to show you
the resources that I use to help my
private tutoring students achieve those
perfect 36s and additionally I'm going
to share some free resources that you
can use on your own to get ready for
test day tip number one is understand
the test what I mean by that is we need
to start with the basics of
understanding how the reading test Works
before we can jump into the more
advanced tips here now many students
struggle with act reading for three
reasons number one they struggle with
strategically how should I approach the
passages number two they struggle with
time management and number three they
struggle with what makes answers right
versus wrong now the most important
thing I want you to understand about the
ACT is the act reading is just like a
where's Waldo what I mean by that is all
the evidence that tells you which
instruments to correct is straight in
the passage well I always tell my
students is you can put your finger
directly right on the evidence what that
means is there's no storytelling there's
no half right answers there's no
spinning answers whenever you find the
right answer in the passage it should be
super clear that you can literally put
your finger on it and go Ah that's it
that's why my answer is correct tip
number two is find your best strategy I
teach six different approaches for how
to handle the HT reading test but I want
to be clear that none of them is the
best approach all the approaches helped
my students in 2020 to achieve a 36 but
again there's no best approach what is
important is I want you to try and find
the best approach for you the best way
to do that is do practice tests try
different approaches until you find one
you like once you find one you like
stick to it and practice it over and
over what you can see on the screen now
is from my AST reading book which has
over 100 pages and includes everything I
teach my students about Ace tea reading
to help them get those perfect scores
now this approach here is called label
then read and this is one that I think I
created never seen anywhere else but
it's one that really helps a lot of
students what we're going to do here is
we're actually going to go to the
questions first but I don't want you
reading all the questions all we're
doing is we're going through the
questions quickly with our eyes and
we're looking for any questions that
reference a specific line or paragraph
and we're going to label where those
questions are so I'll kind of go down to
a pasture I've already labeled up for us
so what I would do here is I would go
straight to the questions and if you
look at these questions down here you
can pretty quickly see boom numbers
numbers numbers you just kind of let
your eyes go and you're going to find
those numbers pretty quickly it's not
super difficult we're going to do as we
find the numbers we're going to go ahead
and label it now once you've labeled
them up it'll probably take you maybe 10
15 20 seconds now we're going to go
ahead and read the passage and this is
the second thing I want you to do with
this method is I want you to pre-read
the questions so before we even start
this paragraph We Know question 11 is
coming up right here so you can go ahead
and read question 11 and then you can
start reading the paragraph you'll
already know ahead of time kind of what
you're looking for which will make it
easier and faster to answer question 11.
we can do the same thing with 16 once we
have the second paragraph We can look
for 13 and keep going through this
process so as you can see this should
save you in terms of time management
because you're going to be answering
questions as you read and you'll be able
to answer these faster because you've
just read them if you were reading the
whole past in one big go you might be
wasting time by having to come back and
reread these it's also going to give you
some breaks along the way so if you find
yourself having trouble staying focused
and doing this and one big go all the
way through this should really help you
out if you want to read more of all the
details on these Pages I'll kind of
scroll back to the front so you can
basically pause the screen and you can
kind of start reading through all these
different tips and rules for knowing
exactly how to go through and apply this
label and read method tip number three
is know how to spot the easy questions
did you know the AC actually tells you
which Quest questions are the easiest
with some certain special words in the
questions this is another tip you're not
going to find anywhere else on YouTube
so what you're looking for is any of
these words if you see these words in a
question it's what I to call a clear
evidence question which means the answer
choice is going to be stated directly in
the passage whichever one is correct is
going to be a simple restatement or
rephrasing of what you found in the
passage it might even be the exact same
thing tip number four is skip the broad
passage questions and save them for Less
a lot of times in act you'll see a patch
that looks like the one right next to me
here and the very first question is
going to ask you about the main idea or
the main purpose or something that has
to do with the entire passage many
students make a mistake by answering
these right away the problem with doing
that is number one it's going to take
you a lot of time you'll probably have
to go back and look over the passage and
number two you're more likely to get
this wrong so what I want you to do is
Skip these do the rest of the rest of
the questions and come back at the End
by doing the rest of the questions
you're going to understand the passage
better so you're more likely to get
these questions right and you're also
going to be able to do them faster which
of course is saving you time tip number
five is learn to pace yourself correctly
act reading is really hard in terms of
time management you have four long past
just 10 questions each and you have to
be exact 8 minutes and 45 seconds per
passage you can think of this as nine
minutes on test day every time at the
end of a passage once you're done with
all 10 questions make sure you wear a
watch check your watch see where you're
at it'll give you an idea if you're
ahead of pace behind Pace or on Pace
additionally I'd advise students to what
I uh follow what I call the 32nd rule
which is basically if you're on a
question for too long have that little
shot clock in your head if it's taking
you more than 20 or 30 seconds you're
looking or looking you can't find that
Waldo just move on as you do the rest of
the questions you might just come across
it or you can always just bubble in a
placeholder Circle the number um if
you're guessing on that question you're
not sure I'd rather you finish all 40
questions and come back to some of you
guests on along the way then run out of
time and have to guess on the last five
or six questions that approach of taking
some educated guesses and moving on more
quickly is going to help you answer all
40 questions and get a higher score if
you're really aiming for a 36 this is a
great place to start but you really need
to under understand much more in depth
about the test you have to really
understand the test at an expert level
if I'm working my students in private
tutoring sessions we usually spend
around three to five hours really diving
into the reading and understanding it
and then of course they do much more
practice to get to their best scores
ever uh to get really good at reading
there's lots of interests you have to
understand how to really break down the
passages how to best read the questions
how to use your answer choices to the
advantage uh how to approach the
questions mentally learn to use the
keywords how to skim effectively and of
course much much more so this is why in
my uh ultimate act reading course it's
over 10 hours of videos of me teaching
basically everything that I've got you
can of course learn much this stuff on
your own but I've tutored this for
thousands of hours perfected how to
teach it and kind of my methods so I can
really just shortcut your ability to get
to those top scores that of course you
were aiming for that being said if you
want to go about this and do this for
free let me give you guys some advice on
my recommendations number one I like to
recommend that students start what I'll
call the nine minute chart what the nine
minute drill is is instead of doing your
reading all the way through in one big
go we're gonna break it and do it one
passage at a time and you're gonna set a
timer for nine minutes because nine
minutes it's technically eight minutes
45 seconds but nine minutes is basically
your pace so what that'll do is number
one it'll get used um it'll get you used
to the pacing of the test which can
really really help on testing number two
what we'll do with the nine minute drill
is you're gonna do one passage set a
time for nine minutes and then when
you're done you're gonna check your
answer choices right away and then
you're gonna go back and for questions
you missed you're gonna try and analyze
why you got that wrong and if you got it
wrong you're going to take some notes as
far as exactly why you got it wrong what
your mistakes were what you can do
better next time and you're gonna kind
of Workshop that until you get of course
better and then once you feel
comfortable with that you can expand
back to doing an entire passage all the
way through my final piece of advice
here in this video is I want you guys to
all think independently as you're doing
your act reading prep figure out what
works for you practice that and become
an expert at your method just because
one of your friends who got a perfect
score tells you the way they did reading
or you see a video on YouTube or Tick
Tock or you hear from your tutor hey
this is the best way to do it they're
generally full of it there's a ton of
people I've watched videos and tutorials
where the advice and the methods they're
giving are actually really bad so make
sure that as you're going through you
really do think okay does this approach
make sense is this helping me and if it
isn't think independently again find
what works for you other than that I
hope you guys really enjoyed the video
if you guys have any questions about HD
reading or study tips or anything else
HD related please let me know in the
comments down below I promise I will
respond to those I'm happy to help you
guys on your journey to some great HT
scores other than that be sure to
subscribe I've got lots more HD videos
coming out new ones every single week uh
on that this is mad at prep Pros hope
you guys enjoy the video see you next
time
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