As you decide whether to take the ACT or SAT – or both – consider what the passages on their respective reading tests are like. Here are six traits of ACT and SAT Reading passages that you ...

They believe they have little left to learn about reading ... time is in short supply. Test-takers have less than nine minutes to digest a dense passage or two totaling 450 to 500 words and ...

On the other hand, the academic reading test delves into materials relevant ... diagram label completion, and short-answer questions. Mastery of these question types is fundamental for providing ...

(The idea that students who don’t read entire books perform better on standardized tests is complete nonsense ... But how much lower can our expectations get? Not only is reading short passages of ...

In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers ...