Today’s ACT question comes from the reading passage about Mrs. Sennett. It’s a detail question asking when a certain event takes place in the passage, relative to other events. Continue reading
Category Archives: Reading
SAT Question of the Day Explained – February 19, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is a sentence completion question about an actor’s performance. This definition sentence tells us that the actor’s performance was “deeply affecting.” Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – February 16, 2014 – Reading, Fiction
Today’s ACT question is a new one from the passage about Mrs. Sennett. The question: how do you characterize the relationship between Mrs. Sennett and the narrator? Continue reading
SAT Question of the Day Explained – February 16, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is an easy sentence completion, perhaps to atone for yesterday’s hard math question. The focus is on a dictatorship and what it expects of its citizens. Continue reading
SAT Question of the Day – February 13, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is a sentence completion about architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The sentence says that he is a ____ because his designs have both beauty and function.
We will need to find a word that includes this idea of beauty. The answer choices aren’t as easy as they could be, but they do include two of our top 100 vocab words! Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – February 12, 2014 – Reading, Social Science
Today’s ACT reading question comes from the social science passage about the medieval justice system (other questions about this passage have appeared on February 4, January 19, and January 15 so far). Let’s see how trial by battle differs from trial by compurgation and ordeal in England. Continue reading
SAT Question of the Day Explained – February 10, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is a sentence completion that requires precise reading (yes, moreso than usual). There seems to be a certain store manager who felt…something…when sales dropped, so she did…something…to a department for its lack of effort. Continue reading
AC Question of the Day Explained – February 9, 2014 – Reading, Details
Another repeat from the ACT today – the question about children from the fiction passage about Mrs. Sennett. Make sure that you pay attention to the tone of the passage (sarcastic, serious, lighthearted, comical, etc.) when you answer questions like this one!
SAT Question of the Day Explained – February 7, 2014 – Sentence Completion
Today’s SAT question of the day is a sentence completion question that required me to choose a word I didn’t really know for its answer. (Don’t worry, I survived.)
We know that the students had to read a whole book, including materials found at the beginning of the book. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – February 4, 2014 – Reading Social Sciences
We have already answered two questions from this ACT social sciences passage about the medieval justice system (back on January 15 and January 19). Today’s question asks us what “being put to the proof” means in lines 18-19. Continue reading