Test Prep Skills

Which of the 4 methods of approaching the English ACT Test is one you can swap to if you are running out of time while using the Graf-by-Graf method? As you read the passage you come to an underlined portion being tested and you finish the sentence and then answer that question and continue reading.

• Graf-by-Graf

• Answer as you go

• Sentence-by-Sentence

• Passage First

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Which of the methods for approaching the English ACT Test below is the one were you go the underlined portion and answer the question and then move to the next underlined portion? You are only concentration on the sentence containing a question.

• Graf-by-Graf

• Sentence-by-Sentence

• Passage First

• Answer as you go

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

If you are reading the entire passage first and then going back to answer the questions which method are you using?

• Answer as you go

• Graf-by-Graf

• Sentence-by-Sentence

• Passage First

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Which of the 7 question types seen on the ACT asks about the placement of a sentence within in a paragraph or passage?

• Deleting Information

• Multifaceted Questions

• Sentence Placement

• LEAST Questions

Should you only pay attention to the underlined portion being test? WHY OR WHY NOT?

• YES; because that is all you need to know to answer that questions?

• YES; because all the other information is redundant.

• NO; because if you do you lose context for the other question types.

• NO; because it is require for the test to read the entire thing.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Which of the following is a synonym for 'elucidate'?

• A) Confuse

• B) Clarify

• C) Obscure

• D) Complicate

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the grammatical error in the following sentence: 'Neither the teacher nor the students was ready for the exam.'

• A) Subject-verb agreement

• B) Incorrect pronoun usage

• C) Misplaced modifier

• D) Incorrect verb tense

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CCSS.L.3.1F

What is the main theme of the poem 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost?

• A) Adventure

• B) Regret

• C) Choices

• D) Nature

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which sentence is correctly punctuated?

• A) She said 'I will be there soon'.

• B) She said, 'I will be there soon.'

• C) She said 'I will be there soon.'

• D) She said, 'I will be there soon'.

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

In the sentence 'The cat, which was hungry, meowed loudly,' what is the function of the phrase 'which was hungry'?

• A) Adjective clause

• B) Adverbial clause

• C) Noun clause

• D) Prepositional phrase

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CCSS.L.2.1E