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Nova's ACT Verbal Prep Course

Comprehensive, Rigorous Prep for the ACT Verbal and Writing Sections
Rating: 0.0 out of 50.0 (0 ratings)
17 students
Created by Jeff Kolby
Published 8/2017
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • The ACT Verbal Section is not easy–nor is this course. To improve your Verbal score, you must be willing to work. If you study hard and master the techniques in this course, your score will improve–significantly!

Requirements

  • This is a comprehensive and rigorous course. It contains all the text from the book ACT Verbal Prep Course, so it is fully self-contained. You will not need to get any outside materials for the course.

Description

Every year, students pay $1,000 and more to test prep companies to prepare for the verbal sections of the ACT. Now you can get the same preparation in an online course. Nova's ACT Verbal Prep Course provides the equivalent of a 2-month, 50-hour course.

Although the ACT verbal sections are difficult, they are very learnable. Nova's ACT Verbal Prep Course presents a thorough analysis of ACT verbal and introduces numerous analytic techniques that will help you immensely, not only on the ACT but in college as well. 

With this course, you will soon master punctuation, grammar, and rhetoric, which will help you on all sections of the ACT. You will soon be able to understand how test writers choose and compose test questions. And you will soon be able to write top-scoring essays without breaking a sweat.    

Features:

  • Videos! Hundreds of videos explaining the text, examples, and exercises in step-by-step detail.

  • Verbal: Develop the ability to spot places from which questions are likely to be drawn as you read a passage (pivotal words, counter-premises, etc.).  Also, learn the 400 essential ACT words. 

  • Writing: Comprehensive analysis of the writing task, including writing techniques, punctuation, grammar, rhetoric, and style. 

  • Mentor Exercises: These exercises provide hints, insight, and partial solutions to ease your transition from seeing ACT problems solved to solving them on your own. 

Who this course is for:

  • High school students preparing for the ACT

Course content

4 sections • 154 lectures • 3h 43m total length

  • Preview01:34
  • Format of the ACT
    02:20
  • Pacing
    00:42
  • Scoring the ACT
    01:31
  • Skipping and Guessing
    00:29
  • The “2 out of 4” Rule
    00:20
  • Questions and Answers
    00:47

  • Preview00:29
  • Preview00:08
  • Commas
    12:07
  • Semicolons
    05:14
  • Colons
    03:08
  • Dashes
    01:23
  • Apostrophes
    02:50
  • Quotation Marks
    02:16
  • Sentence Fragments
    01:44
  • Run-On Sentences
    02:37
  • Punctuation Drills
    05:38
  • Grammar
    00:53
  • Pronouns
    02:07
  • Preview00:44
  • Preview00:18
  • Pronoun Errors Problem 3
    00:48
  • Pronoun Errors Problem 4
    00:57
  • Pronoun Errors Problem 5
    00:47
  • Pronoun Errors Problem 6
    00:58
  • Subject-Verb Agreement
    02:38
  • Preview00:26
  • Subject-Verb Agreement Problem 2
    00:49
  • Subject-Verb Agreement Problem 3
    01:11
  • Subject-Verb Agreement Problem 4
    00:44
  • Subject-Verb Agreement Problem 5
    00:55
  • Subject-Verb Agreement Problem 6
    00:39
  • Modifiers
    02:25
  • Preview00:42
  • Modifiers Problem 2
    00:34
  • Modifiers Problem 3
    00:24
  • Modifiers Problem 4
    00:54
  • Modifiers Problem 5
    00:38
  • Modifiers Problem 6
    00:37
  • Modifiers Problem 7
    00:44
  • Modifiers Problem 8
    01:33
  • Parallelism
    02:37
  • Parallelism Problem 1
    01:02
  • Parallelism Problem 2
    00:44
  • Parallelism Problem 3
    00:34
  • Parallelism Problem 4
    00:41
  • Verb Tense
    02:41
  • Verb Tense Problem 2
    00:33
  • Verb Tense Problem 1
    00:55
  • Verb Tense Problem 3
    00:56
  • Verb Tense Problem 4
    00:41
  • Diction
    04:06
  • Diction Problem 1
    00:12
  • Diction Problem 2
    00:20
  • Diction Problem 3
    00:23
  • Diction Problem 4
    00:54
  • Points to Remember
    02:15
  • Rhetoric
    00:16
  • Style
    05:45
  • Structure
    01:59

  • READING TEST - Format
    01:13
  • Reading Methods
    01:36
  • The Six Questions
    02:11
  • Preview00:54
  • Main Idea Questions Example
    02:30
  • Description Questions
    01:09
  • Description Questions Example
    02:54
  • Words in Context
    01:10
  • Writing Technique Questions
    04:00
  • Writing Technique Questions Example (Short Passage)
    01:23
  • Extension Questions
    00:36
  • Extension Questions Example
    02:33
  • Extension Questions (Short passage)
    01:10
  • Application Questions
    00:54
  • Application Questions Example
    02:43
  • Tone Questions
    00:31
  • Tone Questions Example
    02:57
  • Tone Questions - Beware of Extreme Emotions
    01:30
  • Points to Remember
    01:40
  • The Six Questions - Mentored Exercise
    6 questions
  • The Six Questions - Solo Exercise
    5 questions
  • Pivotal Words
    05:35
  • Pivotal Words - Points to Remember
    00:30
  • Pivotal Words - Mentored Exercise
    6 questions
  • Pivotal Words - Solo Exercise
    6 questions
  • The Three-Step Method
    09:14
  • The Three-Step Method - Points to Remember
    00:47
  • The Three-Step Method - Mentored Exercise
    5 questions
  • The Three-Step Method - Solo Exercise
    5 questions
  • Practice Reading Test
    24 questions

  • WRITING TEST - Introduction
    01:04
  • The Essay
    00:13
  • Structure
    02:41
  • Style
    07:41
  • Warm-Up Drills
    06:24
  • Presenting a Perspective on an Issue
    00:25
  • Patterns of Development
    02:41
  • Planning & Writing
    05:55
  • Sample Prompts & Essays
    16:19
  • Practice
    01:33
  • Sample Essays
    07:25
  • Preview00:28
  • Preview00:26
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 3
    00:26
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 4
    00:13
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 5
    00:37
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 6
    00:34
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 7
    00:17
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 8
    00:51
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 9
    00:34
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 10
    00:33
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 11
    00:34
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 12
    00:20
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 13
    00:23
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 14
    00:18
  • Practice Test - Passage 1 Problem 15
    00:33
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 1
    00:36
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 2
    00:25
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 3
    00:24
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 4
    00:17
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 5
    00:40
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 6
    00:25
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 7
    00:26
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 8
    00:23
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 9
    00:42
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 10
    00:24
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 11
    00:26
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 12
    00:12
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 13
    00:20
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 14
    00:31
  • Practice Test - Passage 2 Problem 15
    00:25
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 1
    00:18
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 2
    00:26
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 3
    00:23
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 4
    00:31
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 5
    00:14
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 6
    00:21
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 7
    00:16
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 8
    00:24
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 9
    00:22
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 10
    00:10
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 11
    00:25
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 12
    00:35
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 13
    00:27
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 14
    00:37
  • Practice Test - Passage 3 Problem 15
    00:57
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 1
    00:21
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 2
    00:11
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 3
    00:18
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 4
    00:14
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 6
    00:37
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 7
    00:05
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 8
    00:25
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 9
    00:15
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 10
    00:17
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 11
    00:13
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 12
    00:29
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 13
    00:16
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 14
    00:21
  • Practice Test - Passage 4 Problem 15
    00:42

Instructor

Jeff Kolby
Writer & publisher of the Nova Press line of test-prep books
Jeff Kolby
  • 4.0 Instructor Rating
  • 480 Reviews
  • 4,569 Students
  • 10 Courses

Nova's Udemy Courses are written and created by world-leading test-prep publisher Nova Press. They are built on the best-selling Prep Course series of books. With top selling status and ratings on Amazon, millions of students, and rave reviews, Nova Press has been a leader of test preparation for over 25 years.

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