Test Prep Tips

These are in no particular order. Check back from time to time to this post-I will add links to this post as I find them.

Under each link is the 1st passage from the reading test of that test for comparison. 1. http://fm.aps.k12.ne.us/TestPrep/ACT_Practice1.pdf Passage 1

PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (©1998 by Anne Fadiman).

Long ago, when George and I were not yet married but seemed to be tottering in that general direction, we gave each other our first Christmas presents.

2. http://media.act.org/documents/preparing.pdf Passage I

PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the short story “From Aboard the Night Train” by Kimberly M. Blaeser (©1993 by Kimberly M. Blaeser), which appeared in Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience. The passage begins with a female narrator traveling to her hometown.

The moon gives some light and I can make out the contours of the land, see the faint reflection in the lakes and ponds we pass.

3. http://fm.aps.k12.ne.us/TestPrep/ACT_0661c.pdf

Same Test (http://www.unioto.k12.oh.us/ACTpreparing.pdf), (http://www.collegetidbits.com/tools/. or-the-act.pdf)

Passage I

PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the short story “American History” by Judith Ortiz-Cofer (©1992 by Judith Ortiz-Cofer). The story appeared in the anthology Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction.

There was only one source of beauty and light for me my ninth grade year. The only thing I had anticipated at the start of the semester.

Same Test- (http://www2.btcs.org/ths/ACT_Resourc. %20Test%29.pdf ) Passage I

PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the short story “The Threshold” by Cristina Peri Rossi (original Spanish version ©1986 by Cristina Peri Rossi; translation ©1993 by MaryJane Treacy).

The woman never dreams and this makes her intensely miserable. 5. http://www.lavamind.com/study/files/act_practice_test.pdf Passage I

PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the title story of Only the Little Bone, a collection of short stories by David Huddle (©1986 by David Huddle).

My grandfather has made crutches for me.

6. http://media.act.org/documents/preparing.pdf The moon gives some light and I can make out the contours of the land, see the faint reflection in the lakes and ponds we pass. Several times I see or imagine I see glowing eyes staring back at me from a patch of woods
beside the track.
This passage is adapted from the short story “The Threshold” by Cristina Peri Rossi (original Spanish version ©1986 by Cristina Peri Rossi; translation ©1993 by Mary Jane Treacy). The woman never dreams and this makes her intensely miserable. She thinks that by not dreaming she is unaware of things about herself that dreams would surely give her. She doesn’t have the door of dreams that opens every night to question the certainties
of the d






The following links no longer work http://www.ashland.kctcs.edu/Admissi. tice_Test.ashx http://www.coylecassidy.com/preparing2012.pdf http://www.sdcoe.net/lret/avid/act/PreparingforACT.pdf

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