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How many questions are on the test? |
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How much time do you have per passage? |
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how much time do you have for the test? |
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How many passages are there? |
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How many questions per passage? |
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How many words per passage? |
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What does the test evaluate? |
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Your ability to understand passages |
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What are the two question types? |
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What do Reasoning questions ask you? |
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Ask students to take information that's either stated or implied in the passage and use it to answer more complex solutions. |
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What do Referring questions ask you? |
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Ask students to find or use information that is clearly stated in the passage |
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The easier the passage the _____ the questions? |
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What is the passage order for the ACT test? |
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- Prose Fiction
- Social Science
- Humanities
- Natural Science
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Prose fiction passages are 70% what? |
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Social science passages are 70% what? |
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Humanities passages are 50%-50% what? |
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Natural science passages are 80% what? |
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What type of passage is a short story or novel excert? |
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What type of passage covers history and politics? |
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What type of passage covers the fine arts? |
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What type of passage covers anything that would be in a science text book? |
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Prose Fiction passages ask about? |
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Th elements involved in fiction |
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What passage type always come first? |
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Students doing the Prose Fiction passage should be able to? |
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Describe the characters, recognize the characters, background information about them, and character relationships |
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Students doing the prose fiction passage should focus on? |
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What are the types of Prose Fiction passage should focus on? |
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What the types of Prose Fiction Questions? |
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- Main Idea
- Significant Details
- Sequences of Events
- Comparison
- Cause and Effect
- Context
- Generalization
- Analysis of author's voice
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What do Social Science and Natural Science passages have in common? |
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They both have ten questions
You skim both
They are mainly reference questions
They are nonfiction
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What do you need to do when skimming the Social Science passage? |
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Look out for names
Concepts
Dates
Author's opinion
Cause + Effect |
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Getting the main idea by summarizing smaller sections of the passage |
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What do you look for in Natural Science passages? |
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The Main Idea
Names of Scientists
Research
Obscure Terms |
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Are Natural Science passages biased? |
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What do you look for in Natural Science Passages? |
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The Main Idea
Names of Scientists
Research
Obscure Terms |
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What makes up Humanities passages? |
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Opinions
Names
Concepts
Cause and Effect |
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How lond do you have to read Humanities passages? |
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Should you skip lines and write in the margins on the writing quiz? |
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How long do you have for the writing test? |
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How long should you look at the writing prompt? |
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How long should you brainstorm? |
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First page of the test booklet |
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What should you have for the ACT Writing Portion? |
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Thesis
Strong Position and Clear |
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How long should you spend writing for the writing portion? |
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What makes an essay above average? |
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To address and refute couterarguements |
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How do you show how your evidence relayed to eachother? |
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Transitional words and phrases |
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What is the difference between a 5 and 6 on the writing portion? |
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What should you always add to the end of an essay in which you were against something? |
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What is the most important aspect of your essay? |
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What is an essay's thesis statement? |
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What makes up a thesis statement? |
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Definite Position
Limited Subject
Things you can elaborate on |
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What makes up a strong thesis? |
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Evidence Needed
Should show evidence significance |
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A cliche
No Claim
Lame Claim |
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