**December 14 ACT Thread**

<p>@billy
It was H so that would be the same as C.</p>

<p>I got really annoyed at looking at that google doc, so I tried to take all of it (+ what we discussed here), and put it together. I’m pretty sure everything here is right:</p>

<p>CONSOLIDATED LIST</p>

<p>ENGLISH</p>

<ul>
<li> Had begun</li>
<li> Who</li>
<li> Cite</li>
<li> Which, in turn,</li>
<li> Divide at paragraph 4</li>
<li> In so being</li>
<li> Climb</li>
<li> Like me </li>
<li> She and her husband </li>
<li> Seems </li>
<li> Sprawls </li>
<li> Populists </li>
<li> Deals with how she influenced the populist party </li>
<li> Would lose detail that the author lives near ski resorts </li>
<li> Author should include colleague because it shows disputes in common field </li>
</ul>

<p>MATH</p>

<ul>
<li> Parabola with no real 0’s didn’t touch x-axis </li>
<li> Doll revenue was 13</li>
<li> X + y = 180</li>
<li> Probability was 1/6</li>
<li> Length of prism was 8 </li>
<li> Only odd numbers </li>
<li> Angle of pentagon was 140</li>
<li> Sin^2 one was sqrt(3)/2</li>
<li> System of equations was 9</li>
<li> Chord in diameter was 9/4</li>
<li> X < 9 and x > -1</li>
<li> Number line was -1 and 1 </li>
<li> 1/sqrt(b)</li>
<li> 6x + 9 was simplified </li>
<li> Candy bar one was 46</li>
<li> The factor of 10/6 one was 8</li>
<li> Log(.5)/log(1-.075)</li>
<li> 6 bags of mulch</li>
<li> Volume of sidewalk was 2 2/9</li>
<li> Height of pole was 35</li>
<li> 15a^8</li>
<li> 188 to cover the garden </li>
<li> -1 was slope of line of best fit </li>
<li> Law of cosine was 11</li>
<li> Circumference of circle was 18pi</li>
<li> Minimum number of cars was </li>
</ul>

<p>READING</p>

<ul>
<li> Contempt</li>
<li> Nostalgia </li>
<li> 2 separate parts of the brain </li>
<li> Author was intrigued </li>
<li> Author thinks that learning would lead to higher level brain</li>
<li> Melisma </li>
<li> Irony was that the train passed by him (he wanted to get their faster)</li>
<li> Personification was train screeching (I, personally, still disagree with this – I put that the “temperature smacked him”) </li>
<li> Mom’s declaration made him run away (I, personally, still disagree with this – I put young adult revelation) </li>
<li> At the end of the passage, he was at the side of the tracks </li>
<li> First sang her song at churches </li>
<li> Amazed because canoes were streamlined</li>
<li> Coconut tree one was to show the difficulty of chartering islands </li>
<li> Mahalia Jackson because of stage presence and talent </li>
</ul>

<p>SCIENCE</p>

<ul>
<li> Feathers was the fossil one (I still think beak, but w/e)</li>
<li> Birds are endothermic </li>
<li> Climb trees would disprove scientist B</li>
<li> Plant was all 3</li>
<li> Used only successful results</li>
<li> Light was Compton heavy was Photoelectric </li>
<li> 300, 200, 100</li>
</ul>

<h2>- Y, e- ------ e- ------- e+</h2>

<p>MY CURVE PREDICTION</p>

<p>ENGLISH
75 – 36
74 – 35
73,72 – 34
71,70 – 33
69 – 32
68, 67 --31
66 – 30</p>

<p>MATH</p>

<p>60 – 36
59 – 35
58,57 – 34
56 – 33
55,54 – 32
53, 52 – 31
51 – 30</p>

<p>READING</p>

<p>40 – 36
39,38 – 35
37 – 34
36 – 33
35 – 32
34,33 – 31
32, 31 – 30</p>

<p>SCIENCE</p>

<p>40 – 36
39,38 – 35
37, 36 – 34
35 – 33
34 – 32
33,32 --31
31 – 30</p>

<p>I’m basing this on what I’ve heard/what I’ve seen in the red book – I may be completely off, though</p>

<p>I think the curves might be like this:
English
36-75
35- 73/74
34- 72
33-71
32- 70</p>

<p>Math
36- 58-60
35- 56-57
34- 54-55
33- 52-53</p>

<p>Reading
36-40
34- 39
33-38
32-37</p>

<p>Science
36 - 38-40
35 - 37
34- 36
33- 35
32 - 36</p>

<p>What did you guys put for the science bird one about whether it was discovered something had 1,2,3 claws instead of 3,4,5 (or something like that)
I put it would prove Scientist A because they were related?</p>

<p>Yeah I put that it would support Scientist A (since it would completely disprove Scientist B) because it would show that they were related.</p>

<p>Qwerty - yeah, that is the answer</p>

<p>Thanks for those answers XAQXAQ. </p>

<p>Anyway, I really hope the curve is generous at least for Math. English didn’t really seem tough to me though.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if beak was an answer?</p>

<p>Everyone is saying it’s feather on the grounds that “feathers do not fossolize,” but I am pretty sure they do – the article made absolutely NO mention of beak, and I looked it up, and found that beaks very rarely fossilize, so …</p>

<p>Does anyone know if beak was an answer?</p>

<p>the question was: “which of the following would one not expect to fossilize?” or something of that essence and feathers clearly made sense. A beak would obviously fossilize because it’s bone, whereas feathers are simply hairs of some sort.</p>

<p>Oops, sorry for the double post. That’s what I was thinking. Aren’t beaks made out of keratin? If they are, they wouldn’t fossilize. I don’t see why feathers couldn’t fossilize… Weird question.</p>

<p>Also: for the canoe passage, does anyone remember getting answer choices such as: they had no problems with the wind/storms, and the author most nearly means strict memorization (they had to memorize the islands’ locations)??</p>

<p>ACThater – I know 0 biology, so I have no idea what that means, lol, but I do agree that it was a bad question…Really sucks that all 3 outside knowledge (beak, CO2, and endothermic) were biology related – why can’t they just have some chemistry ;)?</p>

<p>^^I think I said that …</p>

<p>What about the triangle with side lengths of 7 and 16? it wasn’t a right triangle either</p>

<p>what?^ i don’t remember the question can you give more information please</p>

<p>in the math section. sorry I don’t remember anything else. I think I put an answer of 17.something?</p>

<p>In the red book (or any other books), what is the most lenient math curve you’ve ever seen in order to get a 30?</p>

<p>I’m only asking becuase [as I’ve said before], I usuall finish math with 10 minutes + left, and a 36, and for some reason, yesterday, I was time rushed, and know I got at least 5 wrong…</p>