<p>I’m sure, and randomly, I will have made 13 stupid mistakes and end up with a 20 on the reading section <em>knocks on wood</em></p>
<p>Hmm, I’m not sure then. I just thought that since he said it took patience to enjoy his music and his band was bad and all that, that he was never really popular. I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Do you remember what the other answer choices were?</p>
<p>No. I don’t even remember the question, I just remember never answering anything that insinuated he was ever popular, hahaha. I’m good at misreading though, so who’s to know.</p>
<p>My answers from what’s been discussed here:</p>
<p><i>How does Brand feel when the passengers call recognize him?</i></p>
<p><i>Uneasiness</i>, he mentions that he gets edgy. There were a few other clues to this that I forgot, but also just the overall tone of Brand being an undercover detective like character led me to this.</p>
<p><i>What is not discussed in the characterization of Brand?</i></p>
<p>His role models. His age was said to be 32, he had a hand missing apparently, (physical characteristic) Don’t remember the last one, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that he wanted the train stopped cause I don’t remember anything like that. I remember him wanting to get on the train, conductor dude says no, he flashes his badge and is able to get on. </p>
<p>Don’t remember the wording of the question, but it was talking about his opinion of the magazine that the fat guy reads. Brand responds with, “You read this? None of that is real”. Clearly referencing the magazine doesn’t portray his profession well.</p>
<p><i>How does Brand respond to (fat guy)</i></p>
<p>After the magazine Brand’s all looking down on the guy, so that implies <i>critical.</i> Then it just seems like he feels sorry for the guy so he asks him if he wants to come along. <i>Reluctant acceptance</i></p>
<p><b>Penguins section</b></p>
<p>Model=form, general consensus here, pretty easy one.</p>
<p><i>How many researchers before (E something) had studied the penguins?</i></p><i>
<p>Zero. It mentions in the passage that her and her team of scientists were the first to do this.</p>
<p><i>What made her want to study the penguins?</i></p>
<p>When she went out to observe the penguins they scattered when she was a fair distance away from her. This prompted her to study the effects of people in the penguin ecosystem when exposed to humans, since they reacted in that way when just one human (her) was in the area.</p>
<p><i>Where could tourists visit penguins in (D something. Forgot the island or whatever it was)</i></p><i>
<p>This was straight from the passage, they could see the penguins in the caves.</p>
<p><i>What does the scientist’s final statement suggest about his feeling on the visitation of people to the penguin site?</i></p>
<p>The final paragraph is a quote from the scientist saying something to the effect of, “Tourism needs to take into account hard science.” This straight up says that he thinks tourism needs to look at studies before the let people harass those poor little penguins. <_<</p>
<p><b>Jazz section</b></p>
<p><i>What does the first paragraph suggest about (Jazz player) when he walks onto the stage?</i></p>
<p>The paragraph lists several occurrences, most notably it said that he probably didn’t know the Vietnam War was ending, (over?) This implies he’s a person who has ignored everything going on in the war for a least a little time and just devotes himself to his jazz playing. </p>
<p><i>Why did (Jazz player) move to Amsterdam?</i></p>
<p>The first paragraph talked about several controversial topics like rock n roll and racism, forgot the others, but pretty confident in the answer of <i>social injustices.</i></p>
<p><i>What in the passage supports the claim you had to have patience when listening to his music?</i></p>
<p>The passage said that he played a song with the word kiss in it to a girl and her boyfriend. It mentioned how the first eight sounds were nothing special, (Bad, sour, whatever, it was negative) but then it said his playing captivated the listener after the initial bad notes.</p>
<p>That’s all I can remember, mainly would like to know about the fourth passage, had to guess on like 3 of those. I’m kicking myself though because I looked at one of them and them skipped it and came back but I was nearly out of time so I did a random guess. But I thought it was the telescopes in space and on earth, looks like that’s supported by people here. /:</p>
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<p>I remember marking that one, but I too was running out of time so I’m not 100% sure.</p>
<p>My comments are in red</p>
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<p>My first comment disagrees (I think?), while my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th may agree but are asking for clarification. The rest of your answers I agree with.</p>
<p>^josh, i agree with most of your comments/answers. i disagree with the ones about webster’s accompanists challenging him though; it may have said something like that, but i got the overall impression he was just clearly better than/unfazed by them. </p>
<p>“to appreciate jazz you have to know its history”…I’m not sure this is correct. I remember, I was going to say it, but it seemed like a deceptive answer to me. I said something about understanding melodies?</p>
<p>I forgot to say that one in my post, but I’m 100% positive about the knowing the history of jazz answer, it was straight from the passage, the first column, maybe third paragraph, first or second sentence.</p>
<p>It specifically said that to appreciate Jazz is to know its history… somewhere on left hand column… ^</p>
<p>ugh. why do i do this?! oh well, -3…</p>
<p>This is the 2nd time I’ve taken the ACT (took it first in 7th grade, got a 25; now going into my junior year), but I feel really confident about the Reading section (as well as the Math and English). I’ll honestly be disappointed if I get less than a 34 or 35 on those sections.</p>
<p>Science on the other hand…</p>
<p>hahah science wasnt so bad!</p>
<p>and im normally not the best at it (though i have been practicing)</p>
<p>btw, a 25 in 7th grade is really good. haha just saying. there are kids in my grade now that get less than that.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the question on the jazz section comparing two of the paragraphs: the second one which talked about the formalities of jazz and the third which took jazz from a more personal level? With the answer being something like the one talks about the same subject but not from a general perspective? Sorry very very vague…
In addition, I do not recall the question about the jazz player’s falling fame as the answer. In fact I believe that was incorrect from what I remember about the passage-any clarification? Other choices would help!!</p>
<p>For the jazz guy, I’m almost sure the answer wasn’t “was once popular, but declined in popularity…” I can’t recall him ever being popular. He moved to Amsterdam to escape the Vietnam War situation and racist rock ‘n’ roll, or something like that.</p>
<p>^ i think that was an “implied” question. it didnt explicitly say that, but the way the narrator spoke about him, it seemed as though he once had a fan backing 20 years ago and lost it with time</p>
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It’s really hit or miss for me. I haven’t had much real science yet (Bio and Chem 1 so far) and I haven’t really absorbed either of those into my brain. It all comes down to whether I can interpret the experiments without any background knowledge of what they’re talking about.</p>
<p>I got a -1 on my practice science, but I had a watch to pace myself and the concepts were relatively easy to understand. On the real test I didn’t have time to figure out what all those acronyms meant in the “1 and 2 kg weights on a swing” thing. I’m feeling a -8 at worst though.</p>
<p>Edit: Sorry, I guess this isn’t really related to Reading.</p>
<p>yeah, having had physics definitely helped on that one. that being said, i LOVED that they chose that for the fighting scientists one! im not good at bio, and barely remember chem… and youre only a sophomore; dont sweat it</p>
<p>Oh right! It was the question about who the narrator was. I believe I may have put that he was a fan of the jazz player but also of jazz in general. Or something along those lines. Any confirmation?</p>
<p>Yeah, I put that he was once popular and faded away as well.</p>
<p>Anyone remember the answer to the one about what musicians who play with him do? I think I put that they do something (forgot) in order to make him improvise.</p>