***ACT October 2013 Thread***

<p>I put that as well. ^ 1,3,2,4</p>

<p>same jman. i had the triangle on the bottom right last</p>

<p>@ephermeralbliss the large polygon was a3. the large triangle was a1. So it would be a3, a1, a2, a4</p>

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<p>I used that order for my answer too.</p>

<p>@firemylasers. Good man.</p>

<p>@Richard - I spoke against social networking. I used arguments such as - </p>

<p>1) Waste of time, pointless messages, teens spend more time chatting instead of perhaps, reading a good book. </p>

<p>2) I talked about how the counter-argument - Good communication skills - was terrible because teens fill their messages with “u” “plz” and this would worsen their grammar skills.</p>

<p>I can’t remember my last point :P</p>

<p>sooo it would be top lleft then bottom left then top right and then bottom right, correct?</p>

<p>I took a more egalitarian, if you will. I said that it’s crucial that we be capable to use it, but in limited quantities. </p>

<p>Positives: quick communication, spend less time on the trivial, and I even said it bolsters the economy by producing a whole new market for jobs and products </p>

<p>Negatives: wasting time, failing to practice other crucial skills, cyber-bullying.</p>

<p>Kind of ironic how we’re arguing against social networking as we use extensively right now haha</p>

<p>I spoke against social networking. I brought up the obesity epidemic and its connection to a sedentary lifestyle, the loss of social skills, cyberbullying (I also mentioned that it can lead to suicide and used some extremely weak examples to back up my point), computer addiction, privacy (I used the example of changing social networks as an example for how private data is strewn across the web on many different abandoned accounts, as well as the dangers (identity theft)), and I also brought up the issue of using “friends” or “followers” as a trophy (and how this makes people distant and weakens the concept of a friend).</p>

<p>I really, really suck at handwriting though, resulting in a fairly short (~1.5pg) essay. I wish I could have typed it… I can type so much faster than I can write…</p>

<p>@ketann yup.</p>

<p>Negatives: distracts us, makes us multitask, can’t home communication skills (using OMG or TTYL)</p>

<p>were all the “began” and “had began” answers just “began”? did anyone have a begun answer?</p>

<p>I don’t think there were any “begun”, and I remember putting began for most, if not all of mine. So I don’t think I put any “had began”.</p>

<p>If it makes you guys feel any better, I missed 7 on the ACT Math in September, and I got a 33. If it was harder this time around, then expect -8 or -9 to be a 33.</p>

<p>alright. what about the jet black ink question. what the answer anyone remember? and why was the “eternal” one a good choice? because it allowed multiple marks or something like that?</p>

<p>@sillyup20 - I didn’t take the September one but I heard it was easy in comparison to this one, so that makes me feel a lot better. Hopefully you’re right and that’s how the scaling goes!</p>

<p>@firemylasers
I think you brought up some amazing points. I wish I brought some of those up too.
I also backed up my statements with weak points.
-Spent too much time making sure handwriting was legible, haha</p>

<p>THe question asked why is it good for a first lesson I said keep as is. Justification: Because wouldn’t lot of brush strokes make it difficult and the initial statement said “A character I had a good connection with”</p>

<p>@ketann what was the eternal choice? and for the ink one it was like: ink, jet black and made of soot, mix with water or whatever. There were two commas cutting off the description of the ink itself.</p>

<p>@sillyup how do you know you got 8 wrong? On the september math I thought I only got 6-8 wrong and I got a 30…</p>