<p>jmanco49: The ACT is different than the SAT in that the ACT is an achievement test (not an aptitude test). Acheivement tests are supposed to test what you have (or were supposed to have) learned throughout x-amount of time. I know for a fact that I didn't do so well on the physics part, but that's okay. I should have put in the extra time to go over some material...don't stress, I'm sure everything will work out okay. Who knows, maybe the science section may have a nice curve...just stop complaining (that goes for everyone, by the way).</p>
<p>....really you cant complain about viscosity.
you should know from elementary vocab that the word viscous is an adj. that describes a liquid, meaning "thick." like syrup is viscous. if its more viscous than its not going to flow as quickly</p>
<p>No, you shouldn't have studied physics.</p>
<p>The ACT website specifically states that it tests your reasoning ability, and that it is not supposed to test your scientific knowledge.</p>
<p>There is no way that viscuous is elementary vocab. The last time I used that term was like ninth grade.</p>
<p>In my opinion, the sat and act both test aptitude and how hard you have worked in high school.</p>
<p>If you barely ever read during your high school career, you simply probably are not going to do very well on act or sat reading or writing sections.</p>
<p>Same with math.</p>
<p>But genetics definetely do help.</p>
<p>cuz you've been in school for how long? 11 years?</p>
<p>JDHarms makes a good point. I was trying to look at the other graphs to find out what viscosity meant, but I would have never associated with temperature. personally, i've never heard the word in my life up to that test after taking pretty challenging honors bio and chem classes. i still got the question right because i reasoned that since it was one of the final question that it simply wouldn't be the top graph (higher viscosity) would be right so i answered with the lower one flowing more easily lol. also, i was lucky enough to remember mitosis from 9th grade biology ha.</p>
<p>yeah... i got lucky with mitosis.. i had luckily still retained the basic info about the 4 phases and was able to pull it out of my butt in about 2 minutes</p>
<p>I don't think it's a matter of knowing what viscosity is, I knew it meant the ability of liquids to flow or not. However, I can't recall ever learning whether high viscosity meant more easily flowing or less. I got it wrong because I assumed high viscosity meant more able to flow, not because I didn't know what viscosity meant.</p>
<p>I was looking throughout the passage to find out what viscosity meant, but they didn't say anything on it. That was the only question that really bugged me. I know they didn't pull something like that on the October test I took.</p>
<p>Luckily I got the mitosis questions right. I recently took a bio course at the nearby community college. :D</p>
<p>I had the same problem as highopes.</p>
<p>i agree with jmanco49....its the fact that the test is simply not supposed to test on previous knowledge, just on reasoning ability! you could reason on the mitosis section but the viscosity...***?! lol</p>
<p>Some people praise that the ACT just tests what you've been learning since you've been reading and learning in your classes, but sometimes it might go a bit too far I agree. I don't want to have a bunch of us complain though, because then I think ACT could say that we all discussed "test questions" to each other to make that petition or something. I wonder though if ACT actually knows about sites like this and looks at them after tests.</p>
<p>It's one of the experimental questions.</p>
<p>experimental? it was one the 4th section -- science.. there aren't any experimental questions until the 5th section for those taking the test w/o writing</p>
<p>at least, i thought so</p>
<p>yes that was not an experimental section..nothing in the 4 core section is experimental.</p>
<p>I learned what viscosity was from a practice science passage, but I thought a bunch of other questions on the science involved prior knowledge.</p>
<p>i think they may just make the curve -1 = 36 if enough people miss the same question.. so in effect, it'll kind of be like throwing it out... it's all going to depend on how everyone does</p>
<p>hopefully the cuve will be what peytoncline said...thatd take a lot of worries off my mind!</p>
<p>i hope so... i mean, they did this with the math section in April, and i didn't see many people complaining about it.. so you'd figure they'd do it here</p>
<p>how will you find out what the curve is? i know, a noob question but idk lol</p>
<p>we won't know until the scores come out</p>