April 9 ACT 2011 Discussion

<p>What did you think? Please post how hard you thought each section was along with your prediction of the curve.</p>

<p>Also, let's discuss difficult questions to see how well we did :D</p>

<p>Did yall think the math section was a little strange and harder than normal? I got a 32 last time but this time the only thing I think I messed were on the ones it had a graph/picture that went along with the next 3 questions. I thought there is usually only one of these, and there were 2…and they were hard!</p>

<p>Anyone remember any answers to these?</p>

<p>I didn’t finish the English! I guess I spent too long on the first passage. Oopsies.</p>

<p>What did you think of the essay?!
eekkk…</p>

<p>essay was easy. i argued pro-teacher expression</p>

<p>I said with such competition and pressure to get good grades and to get into a good college students would sacrifice anything, even their beliefs, for a few “brownie points” for having the same interests and beliefs as their teacher…a bit of an exaggeration :P</p>

<p>Yep, The Math was harder then expected but then again there were some easy points in the section. The science was hard to finish as usual. What books did you guys use to study and did it help you on the test today? Also, what were some writing prompts?</p>

<p>I agree with everyone- the math section was unusually hard. The critical reading was easy, the grammar and sciences were average. I have to say though, during the math section I had to make quite a few educated guesses (4 or so) and just completely guess at the last one- I didn’t have time to finish. Any thoughts? Also, one good thing, if everyone did as badly as they’re saying they did, then the curve on this one will be great :wink:
Does anyone have any specific questions on the test? I want to go over the harder questions, but I can’t seem to remember any. On the math section, there was one question about a 150 by 60 sqr feet park and how many possible picnic areas you could fit in their assuming the picnic had to be 10 ft from each border. I was so confused on that one. Any answers?</p>

<p>if you go to act prep section theres a huge discussion on every section.</p>

<p>it was 22…sadly :'(</p>

<p>I put 22…</p>

<p>The english and reading were easy, the essay was. Easy, I put no teacher expression in classrooms, the science and may were ridiculously hard, had to guess on the last 15 questions on both of them</p>

<p>The one about the picnic area was easy - I just counted the # of different 3by3 squares in the section… you get 22 total, and for the last one i said (a+b) < 1 because they said (a-b) > a^2 + b^2 and you know (a+b)(a-b) = a^2 + b^2 so it would have to be a fraction. idk if thats right though.</p>