<p>Ah, must have read it wrong. Oh well…</p>
<p>^ yeah.</p>
<p>They told us 5-8 weeks = (. Wha?? Hopefully it comes earlier like the time I took the ACT in Feb. and I got it in the mail after 10 days.</p>
<p>I think it takes longer because they have so many more to score. xD</p>
<p>^ DX I’m hoping it’ll be a bit earlier than expected … I remember our Juniors last year got them in May :/</p>
<p>I agree with cribelle about L answer. I agree with Kanan about the L maze. That’s what I put. What about the question with the spider web? Is it 30 or 45 or some other choice. It had 12 angles or something.</p>
<p>The sum of all 12 must be 360. Average is 360/12 so the anser is 30.</p>
<p>^30 degrees was the answer. You could have gone about it different ways.</p>
<p>Easiest way would be 360 / 12 = 30</p>
<p>More complex method:
((12-2)180)/12 = 150 << one interior angle (1/2 = one base angle of isosceles triangle)
180 -150 = 30</p>
<p>-1-cos^2 = ? The answer was sin^2.
-There was also another one with 8y =12x and what is one possible x+y value. I wasn’t too sure but I got 8 (B)</p>
<p>^ right for both.</p>
<p>^^ 8y=12x was 25</p>
<p>8(15) = 12(10)
120 = 120</p>
<p>15+10 = 25</p>
<p>I think I got something different for the x+y value. What were the other answers?</p>
<p>Edit: Yeah 25 is what I got.</p>
<p>Hi! I’m a newbie to cc, but did anyone find the science section ridiculously challenging? I got a 33 S on the February test, and found myself running out of time at the end. I am praying for a 30 or a generous curve right now.</p>
<p>Also, did the writing prompt seem a tad far-fetched? I found that it was much more specific and also slightly stupid. Oh well. I definitely don’t think that my ACT score is going up with this one :(</p>
<p>^Agree with all of that.</p>
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<p>I, without much confidence, said that it was a digression, but I didn’t feel that the question was valid. </p>
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<p>English/Writing: The ACT was far more punctuation-focused than I expected, and they had more subjective questions about the passage as a whole than I had anticipated. </p>
<p>Math: I felt much more crunched for time on the ACT, which was mostly a product of my lack of preparation. The questions were certainly different in style than those of the SAT: they were indeed more straightforward application of concepts than the SAT’s more reasoning-dependent questions. </p>
<p>Reading/Critical Reading: The names of these sections are more appropriate than I expected. The SAT truly does require test-takers to synthesize and interpret much more than does the ACT. There were quite a few questions that were mere paraphrases of the original text. I think that the SAT does a better job of walking the fine line between straight-from-the-text answers and overly subjective and unsupportable answers. The vocabulary section from the SAT wasn’t missed much, though.</p>
<p>Science: I’m not quite sure yet how I feel about whether this section should be on the test. Although I am sure I could improve my efficiency with preparation, seven passages felt like too much today for the time allotted.</p>
<p>I found the science fairly straightforward. Only a couple confusing questions IMO.</p>
<p>Yes, writting was a wth moment. Like honestly? how many pts can someone come up about with this topic? Its all good though b/c I wrote over 3.5 pages so at least an 11 = D.</p>
<p>^ Yeah Math is much different on the ACT than the SAT. I was also suprised at how many subjective questions there were… there normally isn’t so many = /. Agree with you on reading, and yes, the Science section with practice can be improved upon greatly. Just have to get used to the format/time limit.</p>
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I think you mean “The SAT truly does require test-takers to synthesize and interpret much more than does the ACT”.</p>
<p>well so far I haven’t missed a question out of all the answers posted, although there are a few I felt iffy about. With the generous curve I’m hoping for a 36…</p>
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<p>Woops, thanks.</p>
<p>The prompt for February was so much better! I write for our town’s newspaper, so I pretty much had a lot of random “personal experience” jargon in there…hopefully it will be better than my pathetic writing score last time.</p>
<p>Science is my weakest section in general, but it seemed worse today. Very few people from my school completed it; I had about 3 questions left when time expired (yay for guessing).</p>
<p>And good luck everyone!! Ohh and also, is it true that the curve for PSAE ACT is more generous than most? Someone told me that and I wasn’t sure if it was just rumor.</p>
<p>^^^ samesies. - 1 on reading so far = /.</p>
<p>^ nah rumors fly around everywhere. People said this would be easier, I found it about average. MAYBE, but dont count on it. Hopefully the states have an “agreement” with ACT so that they get a generous curve which = higher scores = more money from the gov. = p</p>