<p>@ lemon
I am pretty sure the answer was 60 degrees to the coterminal one. you had to remember that pi is 180 and then keep subtracting 360</p>
<p>Coterminal = +/- 2pi (360 degrees)</p>
<p>I also just kept subtracting 360 from the degree amount I converted to (I think it was 1500) and the first number I got to that was an answer choice was 60.</p>
<p>****ed about the trig identity question though. I put cosx because I forgot to put a one over it when I simplified. -______-</p>
<p>And yeah. I definitely do feel as if this ACT was a lot more difficult when it came to science and math.</p>
<p>@Superduck</p>
<p>Confirmed: the angle was 60 degrees. You just keep subtracting 360. There is a way to do it formulaically (is that a word?), but who truly has the time when you could just subtract 360 3 or 4 times on a calculator?</p>
<p>Damn. I put 120 because I had no idea what coterminal meant and I thought I could just subtract from 180, lol. What about the line segment rotated 120 degrees about the origin and projected on the x axis?</p>
<p>@ lemon</p>
<p>im not sure if this is right, but in the new triangle it was 30 60 90 and the hypotonuse was 2. so i divided that by 2 and then mutiplied it by root 3 to get an answer of root3.</p>
<p>@thelemonisinplay
Im quoting LikeASir who explained it to me. This is from the math thread.
“the answer to the 120 degrees problem was 1 because the length of the line rotated would remain the same, 2 and if you translate that line down so that it touched the x axis, you would form a right triangle with an acute angle measure of 60 between the hypotenuse and short leg on the x axis. Therefore, you had a 30-60-90. The answer was 1.”</p>
<p>I feel like the essay prompt could be affected by the scorer’s personal view on the subject…</p>
<p>I did so bad on the essay…I misinterpreted the prompt and didn’t realize it until we had about ten minutes left and I was in the middle of my third paragraph. I went back and changed some wording to salvage what I could, but it REALLY weakened my entire argument (I chose to argue against, which I now regret).</p>
<p>I concur with the general consensus. The math was much harder than usual. I’m usually a math guy, but that was weird and difficult. thought the English section was normal, and I thought the reading and science were much easy, especially the science. Easiest science section was the last one (which is usually the hardest) with the ions being shot out of a box, revolved around a magnetic force and into a receptor. And the reading were easy stories to read. Good ACT in my opinion.</p>
<p>I’m surprised people thought math was hard…I felt it was easier than on any of the practice tests I’ve taken. Same with science, but the fluid passage was really difficult. I honestly have no idea how many I could’ve gotten wrong on science…maybe 4? I don’t know. It’s all a blur haha. I’m praying the curve is amazing and -4 on science is a 34 but I’m not hopeful.</p>
<p>This is my second time taking the test. I did the Feb one and got 34C (36E, 29M, 36R, 33S, 9W). I felt like the English and reading were slightly more difficult than in Feb, but not by much. I still hope I get 35 in English and I’m thinking maybe a 34 in reading this time. Math was a lot easier for me this time around, but then again I did exceptionally bad in Feb…science was also much harder. I think I’d be lucky to get 33 again…</p>
<p>I’m crossing my fingers to get a 34-35. I really hope my math score is high, since I got a 29 last time. I would give anything to get an 8 on the essay…if you get a 6-7 but got a 9 on a different date, do colleges care a lot?</p>
<p>Do you guys think -2 would be a 35 or 36?</p>
<p>These are my predictions:
English 71/75–> 33
Math 57/60–> 34
Reading 35/40–> 30
Science 34/40–> 28
Overall: 31</p>
<p>My predictions:
English: 75/75 (barring some stupid mistake) → 36
Math: 60/60 (again, I hope I didn’t bubble in wrong or something) → 36
Reading: 40/40 → 36
Science: 36/40 → 34? (No idea on science though…could’ve missed 35 for all I know).</p>
<p>Composite: 36 (if I’m right about science, though. Curve might not be as nice to me as I hope it is). If not a 36, almost 100% sure I got a 35. Either way, never taking it again.</p>
<p>Anyone remember the question from the photography reading passage that replaces “goes.” I narrowed it down to murmured or says. I feel murmured fit the tone better since the following clause was a paraphrase of what his mom said, but “says” was precise and short, which is what the ACT likes.</p>
<p>Hey guys, this was my first ACT, and many of you are saying science was the easiest portion – i guess i struggle really hard, and i get that they throw a lot of extraneous info but how do i get better at this? Is it really just practice?</p>
<p>Also, i feel like math was definitely really easy this round. BTW how do you calculate a writing score into an average score? Thanks in advance</p>
<p>@Vann I also answered “says”</p>
<p>Why would it be “says” though? The passage was entirely in past tense. “Says” is present and therefore wouldn’t work, while “murmured” would.</p>
<p>@Vann it was murmured. The entire passage was in past tense, and even in the same sentence the previous verb was past tense. Says is present tense…it’s a question of parallelism.</p>