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
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ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 23, 2014 – Reading
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Today’s ACT question of the day is a detail question from a fiction passage. We are asked why a certain character always wears a hat, so our first task is to look back at the passage and find the mention of hats. Continue reading
ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 19, 2014 – Reading, Social Sciences
Today’s ACT question of the day comes from the same social sciences passage about the medieval court system that we read a few days ago. (Sorry that the ACT doesn’t publish a permanent link to its questions of the day like the SAT does! I’m looking for an online link to their questions, but the general principles still apply to the questions that you will see on test day – and those principles are more important than solving specific questions, since you won’t see these exact questions on your test, anyhow!)
We have a detail question that asks about a specific term from the passage: when was this specific kind of trial used? Let’s start by finding that term in the passage.
ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 15, 2014 – Reading
Today’s ACT question of the day is a reading question from a social science passage about the medieval legal system. The question asks us about the use of judges in the trials described in the passage, so our job is to skim back over the passage and find the mention(s) of judges.