October 2011 Post-ACT Test discussion

<p>^ Got 2080 as well. I took the time to type it all in my calculator lol</p>

<p>What was the answer to the basic distance word-problem about this girl going from one destination that took 80 miles, to another location, and then finally back to her origin? It gave you the following ratio: 5:2:4, so what was the answer? Also with that triangle with the 68 and 58 degrees, they had answers like sin68/50=sin58/60, what was the answer to that?</p>

<p>Science: what were the passages?
-voltage —eh? what do y’all think?
-physics balls— challenging
-titan, moons —easy
-naoh, titration —easy, right outta chem book
-conflicting viewpoints polarity —surprisingly easy, though some thinking was involved in the last few (thinking–what blasphemy!)
-soil --easy if you got the root/shoot sorted out. Also, for one of the questions you had to notice that the scales were not the same. I did that and got real cocky afterwards. :stuck_out_tongue:
-invasive species ------EASY!</p>

<p>Ted, you just totally lost me. :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

<p>God, I really wish the college I want to go to would superscore! The math is the one thing that’s definitely gonna pull my composite way down. Darn.</p>

<p>@ted wow, I definitely should have done that. I just assumed that I was finding 1/2 of square. I wish I thought of using the quad regression, but hindsight is always 20/20</p>

<p>Ugh. Fairly difficult test today</p>

<p>English: was harder than normal. Was hoping for a 36 but don’t think I quite got it. All my 36 friends agreed about english today.
Math: Not TOO bad. Maybe 31-32
Reading: only 3 passages complete. ~28 hopefully 29
Science: Easier than normal 29-31</p>

<p>Curve predictions?</p>

<p>what did you guys put for the sum of the two angles in that circle in question 56? I put 60 degrees</p>

<p>Also, Vappers, I believe the Ellipse question was E. The answer was whichever equation equaled 1. You didn’t need to know any numeric values for the location of the center of the ellipse of anything. You just had to remember that the equation for an ellipse always (I think?) equals 1.</p>

<p>runningpop, the one with the two circles? or the other one, with the circle and the quadrilateral in it? The latter was 45, I’m pretty sure.</p>

<p>Ellipse was whichever equaled 1. But it had to be (x-h) + (y-k) as opposed to (x+h) + (y+k)</p>

<p>for the challenge passage in the english section, which sentence showed that the magazine didn’t meet her expectations (I forgot the exact wording of the question)? Was it “both established and emerging writers” or “unknown” writers?</p>

<p>it was definitely that the magazine had both known and unknown writers. It deviated from her plan of having only unknown writers. As for the math problem thats answer was 45, that is awesome, I totally guessed on that one!</p>

<p>So far after reading through this thread I am feeling soo much better about my test :)</p>

<p>english- easier than usual
math- i though it was easy, but math usually screws me over
reading- the first one (about the violin) was hard. i didnt understand crap. overall= hard
science- easier than usual</p>

<p>the elipse one was the one like (y-8)^2/16 + (x-4)^2/4=1</p>

<p>On my essay I was stopped short by the proctor with 3 words left to write. Will my score be worse because I had a few words missing or will it not really effect me because I fully expressed my points/wrote the rest of the essay fine?</p>

<p>Might lose a point on the essay but you’ll be ok.</p>

<p>I wrote, “under any circumstances, teenagers should not be allowed to own” missing, “their own credit cards”. A point off for that? meh, I should’ve went faster.</p>

<p>The essay is sort of a scam anyway. mostly they just skim it and look for general structure. I doubt it will affect your grade.</p>

<p>Right, they spend under 3 mins per test and look for structure and the general complexity of your writing like the use of advanced vocab</p>

<p>That’s crap! I don’t pay them money to do that!</p>