MEMBER EVENT: ACT Workshops - English, Reading

Who should take this? english act prep workshop

Students hoping to refresh skills and focus on how to master the eight most tested areas in the English section
Those currently scoring below a 28 in English OR looking to master easy and medium level difficulty problems
A student interested in the most important STRATEGIES for handling different question types

Topics Covered:

Taking control of the clock
Process of elimination
Top five grammar areas
Top three rhetoric areas
Plug and test
Identifying the essential question and avoiding traps
When and how to re-read
What to write on the test to work through a problem
Guessing as a time-saving strategy
How often "no change" is actually the answer
How to incorporate the overall passage into an understanding of the individual questions

reading act prep workshop Who should take this?

Those who want to demystify the ACT reading section. Reading is one of the most challenging sections of the test to improve scores
A student who wants to take on this section without feeling overwhelmed by the amount of reading
Students who want to improve their confidence in reading

Topics covered:

Determining reading speed and which strategies work best for each speed
Taking control of the clock
How to determine which passages to read and in which order to read them
Interpreting the trends in data and looking for performance patterns
How to read a passage purposefully
Process of elimination
Identifying the essential question and avoiding traps
How to mark on the test to help quickly find essential information
Guessing as a time-saving strategy
How to reserve one passage for guessing to give yourself more time on remaining sections
Reading the passage first versus reading the questions first
Wrong answer patterns and how to use them
What to expect from different passage types
The underlying skills that the questions are targeting