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•PRACTICE ACT ENGLISHGet your pencils ready….
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•How did you work the passage?•Did you read the passage, then answer the questions?
•Did you look at the questions, then the passage?
• Sentence – question, sentence – question?
•Other?
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•Purpose•Become familiar with the test format
•Share strategies to work smart•save time.
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• Time: 45 minutes• 75 questions • 38 questions correct = 16• 47 questions correct = 20
•English
63% of the Questions
Suggested Timing: about 8 minutes per passage + 5 min warningorTime to skim each passage – 1.5 min = 7.5 minTime per question – 30 sec = 37.5 min
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•Suggestions to improve time
• Stay focused, keep your head down and don’t look up – until the 5 minute warning.• Because of the way the test is numbered, you could SKIM a “chunk” or paragraph, then answer those 1-4 questions and move on. • Easy questions first, if a question is taking too much time – move on….
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•So what is ACT testing?
• Look at questions in Passage I. • What are they testing?• 1 Commas• 2 Adverb use• 3 Verb use• 4 Correction to wording• 5• 6
• 7• 8• 9• 10• 11• 12• 13• 14 New Sentence• 15 Writer’s Purpose
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•Usage/Mechanics – 40 questions• Punctuation - 10q• (commas, colons, semicolons, parentheses,
apostrophes, period, question marks, exclamation points, hyphens and dashes)
• Grammar and Usage - 12q• (nouns, use of appropriate pronouns, verb formation,
verb tense, tense shift, subject-verb agreement, parallel form, adjectives and adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, idioms)
• Sentence Structure - 18q• (run-on sentences, coma splices, sentence fragments,
misplaced modifiers, shifts in construction)
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•Rhetorical Skills – 35 questions• Strategy -12q Test your choice• Which expression are appropriate to the audience &
purpose; what is the effect of adding, revising, or deleting supporting material; is the statement relevant?
• Organization - 11q• (placing a new sentence in a paragraph/passage , reorder
sentences, or choosing the best transitions & closing sentences)
• Style - 12q Keep it Simple• (Have you made corrections to make wording more
precise; avoided wordiness, and redundancy)
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•PRACTICEGet your pencils ready….
Page 12 & 13 Complete # 5-13
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English practice for ACTDay two:Know the directionsReminders about timing and test taking strategies
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Know the Directions
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•Suggestions to improve time
• Stay focused, keep your head down and don’t look up – until the 5 minute warning.• Because of the way the test is numbered, you could SKIM a “chunk” or paragraph, then answer those 1-4 questions and move on. • Easy questions first, if a question is taking too much time – move on….
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•Tips when answering the questions…
•Match questions to number in passage [1] or underlined area.• Keep it simple, precise (example)• Read one line above, one line below to consider context. •Questions about author’s purpose and reordering sentences are usually last.
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•PRACTICEGet your pencils ready….
Passage IIPage 14 & 15Complete # 16 – 308 mins
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•Practice•Using ACT Sample Questions Online• http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/english/eng_02.html
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•How many questions do you need?
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