MEMBER EVENT: ACT Workshops - English, Reading

Who should take this?

• 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

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