FEBRUARY 2015 ACT DISCUSSION THREAD

The 1st date listed is February 17th which means the 1st batch of test scores will be released on the 17th. Every score after that will come out on Wednesdays and Fridays

@limmazom2‌ completely disregarded the table at the bottom of the page on their website, thanks

Did anybody else get 4 A’s (no change) in a row on the English section???

And also did anybody else think the last 15-ish on the Math section were ridiculously hard compared to normal?

@YungTahoe‌ I’m not sure if I got 4 in a row like that, but I know overall I go a lot of no changes, so I wouldn’t worry about that if I were you. And to address your second question I thought the problems weren’t necessarily harder but a lot different than what they usually are. They are all usually the same type just generated different ways but I feel for this one they tested a different subject of math that some people haven’t had much exposure too. Including myself, I hadn’t seen those types of problems so I kinda guessed a method and most of the time it got me an answer in the choices so I’m just hoping that method I guessed was correct and those weren’t just the “trick answers” that I selected.

@Nrnjersey124 yeah i did the same thing on the tough ones. I’d try a bunch of different methods until i got an answer in the choices, said a quick prayer, and moved on lol

I remember getting 4 in a row on English?

Ignore the question mark

@YungTahoe‌ lol i feel your pain bro

the sat thread had 100 pages by now…sigh

the Act Regulations are so dumb

@limmazom2 how many people actually get their scores in the first batch on feb. 17? Is it more or less than 50% that get their score?

Well, after disappointing scores on the Jan SAT, looks like I’m back to the ACT. Hoping for a 34+.

@acx820‌ It says “most” people receive their scores, so I would assume over 50%.

I’ve taken the test 3 previous times and I go them all back on the first date listed

@Nrnjersey124‌ thats exactly how i felt about the math. even though the tests in the red book were easier they were in somewhat of a correlation with the act in terms of types of questions? but this year was a complete throw off, none of the questions were the types of questions they usually ask so if you tried to prepare for math (like me) you ended up with a huge slap in the face. i wish they would announce this before hand, especially considering that the english and reading had some significant changes too. hopefully the curve is lenient

Reading was terrible, I read the passages and it was hard to get anything out of them. Science was easy. Math was okay, but some I had to guess. English was easy, had 10 minutes to spare (hopefully I didn’t make careless mistakes). Overall reading was the killer for me. I had to guess a ton on reading.

Yeah I thought reading was the hardest section especially with the new dual passage that I was unprepared for.

From my experience finishing English early is not a good thing. The only time where I was pressed for time on English I got a 35 while when I finished 10 minutes early I got a 27

Has anyone’s test gone from registered to tested yet?

@limmazom2 I’ve had ~10 minutes left at the end of English every time (3) that I’ve taken the ACT and my high for English was a 32 (and when I was finished I desperately had to go to the bathroom so I couldn’t even focus enough to go over my answers for mistakes). The other was a 31. Obviously those aren’t 35’s, but you can get a good score with extra time to spare. I think the most important thing (in hindsight) is just to circle and go back to the questions that have you stumped and answer the ones you’re sure on because having extra time at the end for actual reasoning with the ones you’re not sure on will make the right answer more clear. It’s easy for multiple answers to look correct when you’re on ACT time, but if you have 10 minutes to answer 9 questions, you’ll probably be more calm.