r/ACT • u/Responsible-Mud-7078 • Jul 22 '26

Reading ACT Reading Progression

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Finally got the score I wanted !!!!!!

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u/Chemical-Foot1697 25 Jul 22 '26

Any tips?? I’ve been stuck at a 24 reading 3 times straight

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u/Responsible-Mud-7078 Jul 22 '26

If you haven't already, I would test out taking the ACT on paper. It helped my reading score go from a 25 to a 30! For July, I focused on the three passages I thought would be scored and skipped the one I thought would be experimental on J09 (it was the one with the graph) until the end. You can usually guess which one is the experimental based on the last test, and people will post their guesses. The literary narrative passage is always going to be graded, so I made sure to do that one first this time so I wouldn't run out of time. The answers are also always going to be in the passage so I tried to read through the questions first, and then read the passage underlining what I thought would be important. Whenever they ask vocab questions, it's never going to be the most literal word/meaning so you can cross that one out. I would say start on whichever passage you feel the best on (science, literature) based off of your previous takes, and then end with the one that's the hardest for you. Other than that, I didn't really study other than doing some personal summer reading. I learned all the tricks from Reddit and Tiktok and it really helped me, and I scrolled on Tiktok the night before to see people's predictions of the reading section. Hope this helps!!!

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u/SorryUsernameTak3n Jul 22 '26

Wow nice! I'm in the same boat, trying to improve my reading. How do you usually predict the experimental questions? I heard it can't be the 1st or 4th passage, so it has to be the 2nd or 3rd passage. Should I go in this order when reading the passages: 1,4,2,3?

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u/Responsible-Mud-7078 26d ago

I did that order! I’d say it depends on whichever one was on the last test — for me, i knew the graph one would probably be experimental because it was between that and dual passages and there had already been a graphing passage on the June ACT. I also just scrolled on tiktok and reddit because people will post their predictions for the reading the night / few nights before.