***ACT October 2013 Thread***

<p>I normally finish science right on time, this one i finished with 5 minutes to spare AND i felt like i understood mostly everything. I normally get 29-32 on science, but this time i feel like i missed a max of 3 or 2 questions total</p>

<p>Also, the boys in the first passage weren’t actually twins. They were a year apart. The part about them being attached at the hip was figurative, methinks!</p>

<p>The answer to the one with 6x+2y was what letter? I either put B or H, depending. I ran out of time and randomly guessed haha</p>

<p>any one else felt that this way way harder than the previous september ACT? Why was science so much easier this time around…?</p>

<p>any thoughts on what a -1 or -2 on science will be? -4 on math? and @narissababie I agree it was figurative, but what was the answer to the question. And what about the one asking about them getting dressed up? And on the math: did anyone else get 12 for the question with the area 33 for two parts of it and 45 for the whole? i said that 12 +12 + 21 =45 so it had to be 12.</p>

<p>Jman, I thought the areas were 31 and 33. Maybe I misread.</p>

<p>also for the jury of her peers passage, what did the authors agree on? I said that the book displayed their arguments well and had many authors or something like that (I might be phrasing that incorrectly). But, I didn’t think it was the one about how it impacted society. What do you guys think?</p>

<p>Not to be rude, but you did misread. The two added up to 33, and the whole was 45; I spent quite a bit of time on this question.</p>

<p>I had picked the answer about it being ironic that they dressed up the same. What did you put? I didn’t like any of the answers for that one.</p>

<p>Yeah I said to draw attention to how they dress the same or whatever; I think those are the same.</p>

<p>I got the same answer as Jman for the reading question.</p>

<p>Anyone else think the science passages on heterozygotes and the one on soil were harder than the rest and on math did anyone else run out of time and have to guess on some?</p>

<p>Do you guys remember the question about 25 students and 10 tests? The teacher gave two additional tests and I think you had to find the difference between the midterm average and the total average of the three tests. I skipped that one. :/</p>

<p>it was that it goes up by 1/3.</p>

<p>curve predictions?</p>

<p>I had picked B, increased by 1/3 (I think that was the answer). I wasn’t sure how to work it out so I just used some general logic. I assumed it increased because of the positive change, then i picked the minimal change because of the large sum of averages.</p>

<p>JMann, Narissa is correct. The answer was 19 for the larger triangle in the middle. The one to left of the large triangle in the middle was 12, and to the right was 14. I also spent quite a bit of time on that question. They wanted to the area of the middle triangle, and 19 was the only correct answer that would of worked, given the size of the other two.</p>

<p>I agree with 19. ^</p>

<p>Anyone remember answers to the science soil passage or the science Heterozygote passage?</p>

<p>how did you know that it was 19 and 14 that added up to 33, and not 12 and 21?</p>