{"id":2576,"date":"2016-11-11T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grockit.com\/blog\/collegeprep\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2020-09-11T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:42:34","slug":"act-compare-and-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/act\/act-compare-and-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Reading: Compare and Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT will test your ability to compare and contrast items within and between reading passages. Before answering any test prep questions, make sure you remember the following tips when answering compare and contrast questions on the ACT&#8217;s reading section:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div  class='avia-icon-list-container   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '><ul class='avia-icon-list avia-icon-list-left av-iconlist-big avia_animate_when_almost_visible avia-iconlist-animate'>\n<li><div  class='iconlist_icon  avia-font-entypo-fontello'><span class='iconlist-char ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue816' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><\/div><article class=\"article-icon-entry \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='iconlist_content_wrap'><header class=\"entry-content-header\"><h4 class='av_iconlist_title iconlist_title   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Read the passage(s) before reading the questions<\/h4><\/header><div class='iconlist_content  '  itemprop=\"text\"  ><p>This is so important because reading the questions first may mislead you when you\u2019re reading the passage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer><\/article><div class='iconlist-timeline'><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div  class='iconlist_icon  avia-font-entypo-fontello'><span class='iconlist-char ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue816' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><\/div><article class=\"article-icon-entry \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='iconlist_content_wrap'><header class=\"entry-content-header\"><h4 class='av_iconlist_title iconlist_title   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Don\u2019t memorize a passage\u2019s details<\/h4><\/header><div class='iconlist_content  '  itemprop=\"text\"  ><p>When you\u2019re reading, you want to understand the main idea, or purpose, of the passage. If the details are important, you\u2019ll be asked about them. At that point, you\u2019ll be able to return to the passage to find the information you need.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer><\/article><div class='iconlist-timeline'><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div  class='iconlist_icon  avia-font-entypo-fontello'><span class='iconlist-char ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue816' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><\/div><article class=\"article-icon-entry \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='iconlist_content_wrap'><header class=\"entry-content-header\"><h4 class='av_iconlist_title iconlist_title   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Skip questions you don\u2019t know<\/h4><\/header><div class='iconlist_content  '  itemprop=\"text\"  ><p>Your ACT score will be determined by how many questions you answer correctly. If a question is particularly difficult, skip it and come back to it later. Always make sure you answer all the easier questions first, as this will help you get the score you want.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer><\/article><div class='iconlist-timeline'><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div  class='iconlist_icon  avia-font-entypo-fontello'><span class='iconlist-char ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue816' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><\/div><article class=\"article-icon-entry \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='iconlist_content_wrap'><header class=\"entry-content-header\"><h4 class='av_iconlist_title iconlist_title   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Use process of elimination before you guess<\/h4><\/header><div class='iconlist_content  '  itemprop=\"text\"  ><p>If you don\u2019t know an answer, make sure to use process of elimination. Never randomly guess, since using process of elimination will increase your chances of guessing correctly. If you\u2019re able to narrow it down to two choices, you have a 50% chance at getting the correct answer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer><\/article><div class='iconlist-timeline'><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><br \/>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_iconlist  el_before_av_heading  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Compare and Contrast Practice Question<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\nNow you\u2019re ready to look at a sample compare and contrast ACT question. Remember the tips you learned when answering this question:<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Rhine Gold<\/span> is the least popular of the sections of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Ring of the Niblungs<\/span>, the epic four-part opera by German composer Richard Wagner. The reason for this lack of popularity is that its dramatic moments lie quite outside the understanding of people whose joys and sorrows are all domestic and personal, and whose religions and political ideas are purely conventional and superstitious. To people like this the opera is no more than a retelling of a story from Norse mythology, a struggle between half a dozen fairytale characters for a ring, involving hours of scolding and cheating, with gloomy, ugly music, and not a glimpse of a handsome young man or pretty woman.<br \/>\nOnly those of wider consciousness can follow the opera breathlessly, seeing in it the whole tragedy of human history and the whole horror of the dilemmas that the world was facing when the opera was written in the mid-nineteenth century. Once in Bayreuth, in the opera house built by Wagner especially for the performance of his operas, I saw a group of English tourists, after enduring agonies of boredom from the opera, rise in the middle of the third scene and almost force their way out of the dark theatre. And I saw other people, who were deeply affected by what was happening on stage, made furious by this disturbance. But it was a very natural thing for the unfortunate tourists to do, since in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Rhine Gold<\/span>, there is no intermission between the acts for escape.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>According to the second paragraph (lines 16-32), the &#8220;other people&#8221; in the audience, compared to the &#8220;English tourists,&#8221; can be described as:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>less able to tolerate the cultural differences between England and Germany. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>less able to appreciate the beauty of Wagner\u2019s music.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>more able to find pleasure in the meaning of Wagner\u2019s opera.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>more able to display patience when it was required.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h4  blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_sidebar  '><h4 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Explanation<\/h4><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\nOK, so we have to figure out what the relationship between the English tourists and the \u201cother people\u201d is. Clearly the English tourists do not like the play, meaning the \u201cother people\u201d enjoy Wagner\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Rhine Gold<\/span>. Further evidence that the \u201cother people\u201d enjoyed the play is the phrase \u201cdeeply affected by what was happening on stage.\u201d Is there a choice that relays that? It\u2019s not A, since there\u2019s no mention of tolerating cultural differences in the passage. Choice B cannot be it, either, for the \u201cother people\u201d were in fact more able to appreciate the beauty of Wagner\u2019s music. That\u2019s why they stayed! Moving on: C looks correct because the \u201cother people\u201d stayed, and were thus more able to find pleasure in the opera. Although this looks correct, let\u2019s make sure D isn\u2019t a better answer: It\u2019s true that the \u201cother people\u201d displayed more patience than the English tourists, but weren\u2019t they also enjoying the play. Just displaying patience would indicate that they, too, disliked the play\u2014something that\u2019s not true. We can eliminate D, then, and we\u2019re left with C as the correct answer.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT will test your ability to compare and contrast items within and between reading passages. Before answering any test prep questions, make sure you remember the following tips when answering compare and contrast questions on the ACT&#8217;s reading section: &nbsp; Now you\u2019re ready to look at a sample compare and contrast ACT question. 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