SAT and ACT Reading Workbook:
50 Passages for you to Read, Enjoy, and Prepare
Remember when you were young and you enjoyed reading? You read stories of adventure, tales of pirates and wizards and knights, of jungles and deserts and space. New books were devoured like chocolate cake. Library days meant you were entering an unexplored world or going on a new adventure with old friends.
But the best way to improve your reading score is to read. It’s hard to study for the reading section of standardized tests. The passages are not the types of books and essays you would typically choose to read. Sometimes, the content can trip you up. Other times, the archaic words and phrases of nineteenth-century literature slow you to a crawl. There are lots of strategies you can deploy to help yourself with the passages but nothing will improve your score faster than reading regularly.
This book will help you prepare for the test in three ways. First, you will (re)-learn to read for fun. You’ll get more out of reading when you read something you want to read. Second, you’ll know what to expect on the test. The passages here, more or less, conform to the types of passages you’ll see on test day. Third, you’ll learn to focus, relax, and pace yourself. These tests are stressful enough as it is. Preparing will remove some anxiety and give you the confidence to succeed.
