October 2011 Post-ACT Test discussion

<p>In the Museum section in reading, what was the answer to the one where you were supposed to make the sentence match the one after it? I said that it should be the one that said “off-limits to the public”, but I kept switching between that and the one that said “few or no environmental controls”.</p>

<p>Did anyone have form 72a? I can’t recall a single question like the ones that have been posted</p>

<p>hey guys for the writing section the one with the black history women about bringin back culture from the youth what was the one answer it was like she tried to bring back the culture but the maganizine thing kept focusing on blah blah blah. the blah blah was wrong right? it was like the answer with the “unknown” right?</p>

<p>@kang its environmnetal controls fo sure cuz in the next sentence it talks about all this environmental crap and how it CAN DAMAGE and not damages (can damage is the answer for the next quesition underlined) the picture/painting or whatnot.</p>

<p>kangrui - it was few or no environmental controls because the next sentence was about how the art was getting hurt by being in bad conditions.</p>

<p>cookie - the question was, how did the magazine stray from the creators original intentions (or something like that). the answer was that it featured known and unknown writers while its original purpose was to only feature unknown writers.</p>

<p>@ig0teu Same!! I thought at first that I had a bad memory, but geez, my test was completely different! The math wasn’t at all too bad either (although I had a brain lapse and probably missed ~5-6). Science was slightly impossible, and reading and English were alright.</p>

<p>@Orb. Haha thank god there is a kindred spirit. I totally agree about the science section… The passage on muons caught me off guard</p>

<p>gah the air resistance one bugs me so much!
but in physics, we learned that gravity is theoretically always constant. -9.8 m/s/s</p>

<p>true amandagrace but it’s true that as you get farther from the Earth’s center the force of gravity decreases. When our class does physics problem we just assume that it’s the constant 9.81 m/s/s but it could be anything depending on the distance to the center of the Earth. The correct answer to that one was air resistance anyways, I put gravity though :(.</p>

<p>wait so wat was the answer to the gravity one? i put that they wanted more gravity or something like that</p>

<p>nah, it was air resistance. The question was so skewed… it did not belong on the test.</p>

<p>They better throw that one out for the curve, I swear.</p>

<p>For that reading passage on the multi-cultural chinese-american man, was he different from the other writers because he did not write in his native language or because of where is homeland was? I remember it specifically said in the introduction that unlike them, he was not from his homeland or something.</p>

<p>Yeah, I think that it was air resistance. Still, I think that the question was stupid, as BOTH factors decrease as altitude increases, and BOTH will produce proportional results for bounce height. If you do the test at a lower alt., bounce height will be lowered because of higher air resistance, but higher because of a lower “g.” Also, air resistance can be altered in lab conditions, and was “kept constant,” so…</p>

<p>Either way, ALL balls will be affected in the same way (uniformly), so the results will be proportional. Any chance that a question will be thrown out?? ;)</p>

<p>I thought the question was “He was similar to the listed authors because…” and I said “He had spent a good deal of time away from his homeland”. He was different because they all wrote in their first language, while he wrote in English instead of Chinese, if that was a question.</p>

<p>What did everyone say about that Arc-Trig one? I said arctan3/4, but I have no idea what the question was anymore.</p>

<p>my answer was something like arctan(3/4), not positive though</p>

<p>So the answer to why the author was different was because he was away from his homeland? Is this a consensus with everyone?</p>

<p>What did they mean by “few to no environmental controls” it seems that if they were trying to protect the artwork then there would be environmental controls(air conditioner, low light etc)</p>

<p>I don’t think it could be the “few to no environmental controls” because they were talking about how art SHOULD be treated. You don’t treat art with no environmental controls. You want the most amount of control possible so that they aren’t damaged like exemplified in the following line. I think the answer should have been “off-limits to the public”.</p>