<p>No it’s hard shell. It’s in the passage. It’s easy to overlook it though. </p>
<p>@SammyxB Oh I must have missed that then. I just put “moving quickly” because I remember the passage stating something about it jumping quickly</p>
<p>I didn’t even look back to the passage or remember seeing hard shell. I just took a guess based on what it was describing.</p>
<p>@SammyxB how do you find out your score early. Do you have to wait a while or can you check now?</p>
<p>For the velocity one the graph was velocity per second making it an acceleration.</p>
<p>Yeah I almost put that answer until I looked back and underlined what I was reading.</p>
<p>@bwany6 I will explain after a few days. (=</p>
<p>what was the main idea for the ant passage? I believe that was question 1</p>
<p>Predicted results:<br>
English: 32-34
Math:27-28
Reading: 28-29(hopefully, it was so hard especially the third passage)
Science: hopefully a 30+ depending on harshness of curve. (worried about the conflicting viewpoints passage)</p>
<p>I want a 31 or 32 so bad and thought I had it up until the reading test</p>
<p>I thought the conflicting was rather easy, all you needed to identify was, the lipid trends, and their role. </p>
<p>Freethinker35 - i also thought it was easy! But i also had like 10min to do it since i was ahead on time</p>
<p>The conflicting viewpoints was really basic this time around.</p>
<p>Did anyone else put none of hypothesis when it asked which experiment had butterfly not doing lipid thing before or after migration?</p>
<p>This was my first ACT and I’ve only been studying and doing a practice test each of the past three days so I probably don’t know as much as y’all do. But one thing I found really important is that each day my score increased dramatically. My science score for instance went from a 27 to a 36 and my reading went from a 31 to a 35-36ish. My English stayed about the same because I overthink on those questions too much and math just varied in general. I think that my improvement in the first two has nothing to do with any skills than simply scanning for information. Literally, I feel like the ACT practice tests’ answers were word for word of the passage. So when I did the ACT today I was surprised that I struggled so much with reading and science. It wasn’t because these questions were difficult. They just required higher reasoning skills than the past tests. The content on say ph or butterfly lipids is more simple than the information from at least the practice stuff I did. But for those like me, “scanning” (what Barrons calls) ended up distracting from common logic. So when people ask about the the mother jones lady, don’t expect to see the answer in the passage. If you take a step back, you might notice what matriarch in the given sentence means or see a holistic image. Then perhaps calling her “mother of workers” would be appropriate if I remember the context correctly. So yeah basically do some practice before. But don’t pigeonhole your brain in gaming a test. It wouldn’t really do justice to your actual intelligence. Today I had to reevaluate what difficult really means and that my brain isn’t obsolete. Haha it was kinda like the king’s new clothes. Now if the ACT could give us a bit more time to actually think.</p>
<p>Lol yeah it’s first time taking it and did practice.And yeah I used mother of workers because of the matriach…the way sentence was…heh…</p>
<p>Eh math idk…I just hope for a miracle…</p>
<p>@SammyxB what scores are you hoping for? (each section/comp) 
sounds like you did really well, congrats:)</p>
<p>Can someone send me link to google docs?</p>
<p>Curve predictions?</p>
<p>haha. I love how this thread just blew up with replies after the test. Sooo many people to discuss the answers. </p>
<p>As for my test taking strategy - I didn’t have one at all, and I don’t think having one would help me at all. I go through all of the questions, mark the ones I can’t do within a reasonable time, and come back once I’ve finished the lot. However, I’ve always been a fast reader so the reading test has been pretty easy for me time-wise, it’s also been my highest section score on the first acT i took (35) and despite my love for math I only got a 28 last time. My goal for this test was to improv emy math and science scores so I could bring a 31 to a 32. </p>
<p>I’m lead to believe that ACT is one of the biggest moneymaking schemes in America at least for young adults. A test that determines your future… tons of people selling “prep materials”, looking for tutors, ACT cashing in on all of the test fees and misc. fees. lol</p>
<p>I’m not sure about the curve. I’d imagine it would be a little generous, it seems for most people I’ve seen here science was pretty hard, and reading. But maybe I’m just being idealistic. need that 32. At least a 32 superscored oh please.</p>