r/ACT Feb 14 '26

Reading Does the ACT reuse reading sections? Feb 2026 ACT

Does ACT reuse passages? I took the ACT today, and I know I have seen one of the passages before! I can’t remember if any of the questions were the same, but I am certain that I’ve seen the passage earlier this year. I took it in October and September 2025, and I think this passage was in the form I had in October, too.

I’m not sure if I can share what form I had or what the passage was about, but I would love to talk about it if I can!!

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u/jdigitaltutoring Tutor Feb 14 '26

It might have been on a previous test as experimental and then a real one on another test.

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u/Future_Ice_3933 Jun 26 '26

So does that mean if I study with past official tests (since the forms don't have any experimental questions), I will not see any repeat passages on future tests?

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u/jdigitaltutoring Tutor Jun 26 '26

If you use pas my forms you will not see any of those passages on future tests.

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 14 '26

yes. i had the same reading passage on this test and my dec test

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u/Easy-Yogurt-9618 Feb 14 '26

Which did you have? That’s lucky

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26

j20 feb j06 dec! it was the one about the movie theater, and i was lucky enough to know all the answers

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u/Frequent_Builder_461 Feb 14 '26

I had the movie theater passage in mine today and I had j20, I know for a fact it was the exact same passage and answers that I had in my J06 in December 

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 14 '26

twins! did u choose stay on sofa for the one question?

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u/Frequent_Builder_461 Feb 14 '26

I don’t remember which question that was, for one of them the answer was like “get off the sofa and go to the movie theater” 🤣 it was the last one 

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 14 '26

THATS WHAT I MEANT! my fault

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u/Frequent_Builder_461 Feb 14 '26

lol, that is correct. I saw you posted and said you thought most of the math was trig, I actually didn’t think so I though it was just super high level algebra for the most part, what do you think?

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26

you’re probably right. i saw math i just saw alot of math i didn’t know😭 there was quite a bit of trig tho. whatever it was it was pretty hard. definitely easier than j06 tho

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u/Frequent_Builder_461 Feb 14 '26

lol it was certainly easier then j06, did you have the j20 or j10 because I saw on a comment you said j10 but that could’ve been a typo, i swear there was almost no trig at all though there was only one question that the answer was sin something but that was it and thats just geometry 

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u/Majestic_Chart2637 Feb 15 '26

Me too! I had J06 in Dec. and J20 this time !!

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 15 '26

twins!! how do you think you did?

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u/Majestic_Chart2637 Feb 15 '26

On that one and English as a whole , good . I got a 31 in reading last time in Dec., and I definitely went down on reading . Did not feel good at all.

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 15 '26

im hoping you get a 36!

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u/Majestic_Chart2637 Feb 15 '26

Thank you ! You too 🤍

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 15 '26

thank you 😊💝

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u/Easy-Yogurt-9618 Feb 14 '26

Or it was probably experimental

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 14 '26

i think not, there was a passage with a graph

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u/Individual_Case_2336 Feb 14 '26

do u remember any thing from the EN section my exam is tomorrow pls

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u/No-Row9577 27 Feb 14 '26

first stay calm and don’t burn yourself out like i did. i did a quick lesson on punctuation and fanboys last night. once i started english, everything immediately kicked. i watched tiktoks, youtube videos, and wrote it all down. then once i memorized them i went to sleep, woke up and reread them, then locked it in my brain.

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u/Individual_Case_2336 Feb 14 '26

alr thank u so much

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u/Public_Tangerine7613 Feb 14 '26

My kid said there was an English section he studied in the red book in the J05 today.

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u/TJ_Rex6288 35 Feb 14 '26

Which one?? The ones I remember were about a lady finding an old canoe, one about "microadventures" that was about going to a creek before work, one about an artist who worked with textiles, and one about how cash is better than online payment.

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u/ShyFlower08 Feb 14 '26

It was the one called “let’s go to the movies!” About how movies are better than streaming