ACT E26 E5 Hot Take
“The sheer aggression with which Mark approaches English materials inspires me”
– Mark Hastings
In this stream, Mark goes through the final English passage from the newest published ACT.
The excerpt below is adapted from a 2004 book about famed film critic Pauline Kael written by an editor and critic who knew her personally. An anecdote: one summer day not too many years ago, I was on Kael’s verandah, staring off vacantly, and seeing me through the screen door, she called, “What are you…
To whom it may concern, Whose job is it to write the who/whom/whose test questions? Who’s behind those questions anyway? I mean, no one who understands grammar understands the difference between “who” and “whom.” In other words, no one for whom the understanding of grammar is a top pursuit knows the difference between “who” and…
Oxford defines provincial as Quick note about which dictionary to rely on when studying vocabulary for standardized tests: it doesn’t matter. That said, we have found that the College Board’s use of their “vocabulary” words in test questions has almost always mapped perfectly onto the definition and example found within the New Oxford American Dictionary—usually…