Illinois State Mandated ACT Discussion 4/27/11

<p>I also said that</p>

<p>i said that as well. For the reading question about newsreels, how is the answer “it was found in big cities” correct? That doesn’t show how its popularity increased. I put how it made a ton of money when it was first put into the theaters. This shows the interest it gained from the audience…</p>

<p>i put “movie theaters showed only…” i believe it was answer choice A… but i wasn’t sure about that one. is that the answer your referring to?</p>

<p>The answer was that there were some theaters that only showed newsreels because it stated in the question about specific evidence from the passage and that was the best answer choice</p>

<p>oh, it asked for a specific detail from the passage? Must not have read that one properly…Any one rememebr what the answer was to the last question on science? I answered it with 2 seconds left lol</p>

<p>what were the last two questions?</p>

<p>I barely remember… I think one of the last ones was about the affect of changing 1.5 to 1.3, or something like that… I ran out of time and put A… the last one was something like a fraction and it asked for its value… I think I put c?</p>

<p>Wouldn’t you need the commas because “plato” is an appositive, and it’s in a nonrestrictive phrase?</p>

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<p>“The police chief, William A. Bendofsky, is an authority on the use of roadblocks to protect neighborhoods from drive-by shootings.”</p>

<p>no, the commas are unneeded… at least that is what I put… I remember taking a practice test and made the same mistake of putting commas</p>

<p>Hmm, well since that was put up, I’ve looked in my review books and online and there’s no indication of such an instance. Unless you can prove this wrong.e</p>

<p>in an article I found, the sentence was:
The Greek philosopher Plato stated … “Necessity is the mother of invention”.</p>

<p>Commas set off unnecessary phrases, and since there are many greek philosophers the author needed to say Plato -> I think no commas</p>

<p>I put commas, but I am not sure at all.
what did you guys put for the one about W and what it was trying to find…
i only remember it was one of the last science problems</p>

<p>How about the one with a negative slope, points (a,b) and (c,d) where a>c? Choices were b=d, b<d, b=“”>d (one of those three roman numeral problems)</d,></p>

<p>I put no commas. I wasn’t sure, but in general, simplicity wins on ACT English.</p>

<p>Speaking of which, there was an English question where I got “ordinariness” as part of the answer, because “ordinary” as a noun made sense even though it’s SO clunky…</p>

<p>hardworking21, it’s b< d.</p>

<p>I thought commas because it’s an apositive? And darn it! Ok, -1 math=any chance for 36? or Must be a 35?</p>

<p>If I got 1 reading wrong, and 2 science wrong, what would the expected score be?</p>

<p>Not sure if this was discussed…But in the English section, when the aunts were warning their kids about being like aunt Sylvie or they’ll break their necks (something like that)
I put that it was to emphasize the danger of her actions… Am I completely off base? (I think it was answer b)
Anyone else get that?</p>