Key ideas and details
Practice identifying central ideas, locating evidence, understanding relationships, and making reasonable inferences from the passage.
Craft and integration
Review author choices, word meaning in context, point of view, structure, and the way information works across a passage or paired texts.
Use the passage as your evidence
When choices seem close, return to the text. Eliminate answers that are unsupported, too broad, too narrow, or inconsistent with the passage.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is ACT Reading practice free?
Yes. You can use the ACT Reading practice tools without a paid subscription.
What reading skills are included?
Practice includes key ideas, details, inference, word meaning in context, author choices, and integration of information.
Can I review why an answer was wrong?
Practice review is designed to explain the reasoning behind the correct answer and help you identify common traps.