<p>jw:</p>
<p>act recommends bringing a wristwatch so you can keep your own time, and pace....</p>
<p>We'll see how everyone does then. If everyone had all the time in the world, we'd all have much better scores.</p>
<p>What time can we start discussing the questions? Anybody know?</p>
<p>now sounds pretty good to me</p>
<p>Yes it does.. im on westcoast.. and im finished :).. lets start discussing</p>
<p>The essay was fun to write, mostly because we were at our leisure to ignore conventions and write much more casually...or at least, that's what the Barron's book said. We better not have been supposed to write a formal, vocabulary-flaunting essay was we would have for the SATs.</p>
<p>English was easier than I thought it'd be, especially with the time constraints. I finished with fifteen minutes to spare. </p>
<p>Science...okay, why seven passages? Why not...four? Or five? Every new page brought a new, terrifying justification of weird graphs. There was just not enough time to read it all. I finished with somewhat under five minutes to remain, but went much too quickly for my tastes. </p>
<p>Reading wasn't bad, Math wasn't bad. Length...it was alright. Ten minute and five minute breaks.</p>
<p>As for timing, I remembered to synchronize with the classroom clock! No more wristwatch-being-five-minutes-off-causing-meltdown situations! Of course, they called 'five minutes remaining' before they called time, which they didn't do as I recall for the SATs.</p>
<p>I hate Scinece! and reading and grammar. 8-)</p>
<p>Any one remember science questions we can discuss about? cuz science was kinda hard</p>
<p>My proctor said anything that beeps had to be removed (including my timer). She said if it beeped once during the test (which I assured her it wouldn't) then it had to be removed, thus my time was completely thrown off and I was going off the assumption that I would finish early and have time to go back and check one or two questions.</p>
<p>how many mins are we supposed to have for essay? We had 30mins.. is that right?</p>
<p>Remember the science questions?! I barely had time to read the science questions!</p>
<p>yea u have 30 mins for essay</p>
<p>Does anyone know how harsh the curve is for the reading section? Is it bad at all? I know someone said it doesn't fluctuate much - does that mean its usually the same for each test??</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>MAN.. lets discuss this crap already! :)</p>
<p>Very little curve. The largest I've seen on released tests was where you could get one wrong and still get a 36. From there, each missed question generally knocks you down a point until about 30ish; then, you can miss two or three questions per point. Many times, its entirly impossible to get certain scores on a test. On one reading resleased exam I saw, one wrong would get you a 34!</p>
<p>Let me just say that science ruined my life. I worked sooo ridiculously hard to bring up my math score and I am betting my science score cancels it out. Maybe I'm just crazy but I had nowhere near enough time to go through all those bizarre graphs and experiments.</p>
<p>Sure, the dinosaurs and whatnot were fine but the dew point/cloud and blood ones baffled me. I did so well on the other sections and i will be very upset if science keeps me under a 30.</p>
<p>I didn't really think science was that bad, except for the dew point section which made absolutely no sense. I seemed to finish with enough time left (about 8 or 9 minutes), but I was just too tired of testing to check over my answers. Hopefully I did ok.</p>
<p>on the math part, did anyone know how to figure out the triangle one, where you had to find the fraction of the triangle that was shaded and it had like little triangles in it? I guessed and put down the last answer. </p>
<p>yes, the science was ridiculous...i skipped over the dew point one, then went back to it and filled in anything. </p>
<p>I thought that english was the easiest, then the math, then reading, then science. as for the essay question, i was so burned out by then i didn't even care. i wrote only two and a half pages. oh well.</p>
<p>Yes! That was the one! The dew point section probably would've made sense if I had forever to read it, but I looked over it in a space of about a minute, asked myself, 'what the hell?'; went to the questions, asked myself 'what the hell?'; and concluded this passage stunk.</p>
<p>can you keep colleges from seeing the test score from today, but still see how horribly i did? I need to cancel my scores. i didn't do finish about 6 math 20 reading and 7 science questions and there is no way that is going to be a score i want ppl to see that. i still want to try to see my score and get the test with answers back though. how does that work out?</p>