ACT Compass Reading Flashcards
If the idea of taking a placement exam to find out what college courses you can take is nerve-wracking, there are educational tools available to help you prepare, especially for the ACT Compass exams. These tests are not given for a specific grade that will affect your grade point average. In fact, the ACT Compass Reading test is an untimed placement test that colleges may use to determine where you’ll start your course work and what your skill level is when it comes to reading comprehension; educators may also use the ACT Compass Reading Skills test to explore your specific skills in vocabulary and comprehension, to create your reader profile.
The ACT Compass Reading placement exam includes a variety of passages that are designed to evaluate how well you comprehend the information that you read. You’ll likely find passages with different writing styles, including humanities, prose fiction, and social and natural sciences. The exam also includes practical reading, and is a multiple-choice exam.
If you’re searching for learning tools to help you prepare for either of these exams, Varsity Tutors offers thousands of Learning Tools Flashcards that focus on helping you prepare for the ACT Compass Reading test. The flashcards can come in handy if you’re just looking for a quick refresher, or if you want to prepare when you only have a short period of time available. This tool offers flexibility and aims to be a non-stress way to prepare and reassure yourself of your skills before you go in to take the ACT Compass Reading exam.
Varsity Tutors’ Learning Tools Flashcards for ACT Compass Reading typically contain a passage to read and multiple choice questions related to the passage that is also listed on the card. The multiple choice format of the flashcard mirrors the multiple choice format of the ACT Compass Reading test. You’ll have five answers to consider, and you’ll get immediate feedback on your answer, whether it’s right or wrong. Each card explains what the correct answer is, and why that answer is correct. These Learning Tools Flashcards offer discussion of paragraph structure, the need for and use of transitions between paragraphs, and what the paragraph text implies, among other topics. As you work through the thousands of Varsity Tutors’ Learning Tools Flashcards for ACT Compass Reading that are available, you’ll see questions that are very similar to what you’ll find on the exam. You don’t have to answer every question in a specific order – these flashcards allow you to skip forward in the online cards or backwards, to reexamine a previous card.
There are several other Learning Tools available from Varsity Tutors to help you prepare for the ACT Compass Reading exam, including a Practice Test and a Question of the Day series that can help you to drill down on specific concepts. When you create an account with Varsity Tutors’ Learning Tools, you can access these free flashcards. You can track your progress as you work through the flashcards, or even create your own.