ACT Reading Question Type Inventory: Official ACT from June, 2017, Form 74C
Strategy Guides and Drills for Every Question on the Reading Section of the June, 2017 ACT (74C)
Increasing your ACT Reading score requires first completing an official ACT Reading practice test and finding out what types of questions you are most frequently missing. Then, you need to study the strategies and tactics for those question types (QTs). Next, you need to do drills to gain experience applying those tactics. Finally, do another official practice test, and start the process again.
Step-By-Step: How to Use This ACT Reading Question Type (QT) Inventory
Complete the Reading Test from the June, 2017 ACT, Form 74C / Code 18MC4. (This test was previously published as ACT Practice Test 2 in the 2023-2024 Official ACT Prep Guide. However, it does not appear in the current edition of the Official ACT Prep Guide.)
Check your answers using the key in the Official ACT Prep Guide, and use the below Question Type Inventory (QTI) to count up your number of misses for each Question Type (QT).
Starting with your most frequently missed QT, click the corresponding “Learn the Tactics” links for that QT. For example, if your most frequently missed QT was Non-Citation Questions (NC), click any “Learn the NC Tactics” link.
After studying the tactics, click on the “Do Drill Set” link/s for that QT, and do the drills. For example, let’s say your most frequently missed QT was Non-Citation Questions. In that case, you would first study the strategy guide for Non-Citation Questions. Then, you would click on the “Do Non-Citation Question Drills” link and do the practice questions.
The Importance of Doing the Steps in Order
Attempting to short cut the above process will likely only hamper your progress. Starting with your mostly frequently missed QT, it’s important to first study the associated tactics. After you study the tactics, the next step is to do some Walker Prep practice questions, which will help you to become proficient in applying the tactics.
Available articles on QT tactics are linked directly to the right of the question types on the below QT Inventory. Available drill sets are linked directly to the right of the tactics article.
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QTI for the Reading Section of the June, 2017 ACT, Form 74C
Question 1 QT: Time Trap (TT) / Learn the TT Tactics / Do NC Drills (includes TT drill) /
Question 2 QT: Citation (CQ) / Learn the CQ Tactics / Do CQ Drill Set 1
Question 3 QT: Citation (CQ) / Learn the CQ Tactics / Do CQ Drill Set 1
Question 4 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 5 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 6 QT: Non-Citation (NC) + Inference (IQ) / Learn the NC Tactics / Learn the IQ Tactics / Do NC Drills / Do IQ Drills /
Question 7 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 8 QT: Passage Comparison (PC) /
Question 9 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 10 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 11 QT: Citation (CQ) / Learn the CQ Tactics / Do CQ Drill Set 1
Question 12 QT: Time Trap (TT) + Inference (IQ) / Learn the TT Tactics / Learn the IQ Tactics / Do NC Drill Set 1 (includes TT + IQ drill) / Do IQ Drills /
Question 13 QT: Main Point Paragraph / Learn the Main Point Paragraph Question Strategies / Do Main Point Paragraph Drills /
Question 14 QT: Main Point Paragraph / Learn the Main Point Paragraph Question Strategies / Do Main Point Paragraph Drills /
Question 15 QT: Time Trap (TT) / Learn the TT Tactics / Do NC Drills (includes TT + IQ drill) /
Question 16 QT: Function (FQ) / Learn the FQ Tactics / Do FQ Drill /
Question 17 QT: Citation (CQ) / Learn the CQ Tactics / Do CQ Drill Set 1
Question 18 QT: Non-Citation (NC) + Inference (IQ) / Learn the NC Tactics / Learn the IQ Tactics / Do NC Drills / Do IQ Drills /
Question 19 QT: Words in Context / Learn the Words In Context Question Strategies / Do Words In Context Question Drills /
Question 20 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 21 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 22 QT: Main Point Paragraph / Learn the Main Point Paragraph Question Strategies / Do Main Point Paragraph Drills /
Question 23 QT: Non-Citation (NC) + Inference (IQ) / Learn the NC Tactics / Learn the IQ Tactics / Do NC Drills / Do IQ Drills /
Question 24 QT: Function (FQ) / Learn the FQ Tactics / Do FQ Drill /
Question 25 QT: Non-Citation (NC) + Inference (IQ) / Learn the NC Tactics / Learn the IQ Tactics / Do NC Drills / Do IQ Drills /
Question 26 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 27 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 28 QT: Words in Context / Learn the Words In Context Question Strategies / Do Words In Context Question Drills /
Question 29 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 30 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 31 QT: General (GQ) / Learn the GQ Tactics
Question 32 QT: Time Trap (TT) / Learn the TT Tactics / Do NC Drills (includes TT drill) /
Question 33 QT: Inference (IQ) / Learn the IQ Tactics / Do IQ Drills /
Question 34 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 35 QT: Words in Context / Learn the Words In Context Question Strategies / Do Words In Context Question Drills /
Question 36 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 37 QT: Citation (CQ) / Learn the CQ Tactics / Do CQ Drill Set 1
Question 38 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /
Question 39 QT: Words in Context / Learn the Words In Context Question Strategies / Do Words In Context Question Drills /
Question 40 QT: Non-Citation (NC) / Learn the NC Tactics / Do NC Drills /