<p>Judges or judges’?</p>
<p>judges’</p>
<p>that was hard</p>
<p>Wow everyone on this site makes me feel like a failure. I took my first ACT back in June 2014 as a transitioning junior-to-senior and went into it with absolutely no prep. When I say no prep, I mean none… not even a Google search on tips/strategies. Anyways I took and on every section except the English and writing, I guessed on at least 6 questions, some more/less than others. On the science section when the proctor called for 5 minutes left, I was on question 22 out of 40. I have such a hard time with pacing/having enough time to get through each section because I’m not the fastest reader, which is a huge disadvantage because I know that if I were faster or had more time to complete each section, I would do a lot better. But despite my excessive guessing, I still received a 27 composite. I’m sure to all of you a 27 is nothing worth noting at all, and I get that, but I know I’d easily be capable of a 30+ if I were a faster test-taker. </p>
<p>Today when I took it, I felt better about some sections, but a lot worse about others and still had to guess on quite a few. I told myself I would study for this one but I can’t really say I did much of anything, so we’ll see how this goes. </p>
<p>Coming from a more “average” scorer (although I honestly don’t even think a 27 is that bad), I just thought I would share this to maybe give a bit of a confidence boost to others, or appeal to the crowd of students who set lower, more attainable goals for this test. </p>
<p>Do test scores normally come out earlier than what is posted? ACT says first post will be Nov 11 but I feel usually when I take the ACT the scores come out well before that. </p>
<p>I really hope that the science curve is extremely generous because i guessed on the last question. How in the world are people good and efficient in science? This science part was notably more difficult than last September’s.</p>
<p>They always say 3-8 weeks but in my experience I’ve gotten my scores back in about 1.5 weeks after the test date. </p>
<p>I found that when I was doing practice tests untimed in science, I would take around 60-70 minutes and would get a 34 according to the practice books scale, but when it’s timed and we are rushed, it makes a biiig difference. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is take timed practice tests, as many as possible.</p>
<p>I believe I had form 75A(or B). Does this mean my test was completely different from the 74A one that must people here seem to have taken?</p>
<p>Yes they are different.</p>
<p>dont post doc links publicly come on use common sense</p>
<p>I feel like I finished really quickly for the science…can someone else list out the types of passages they had. I feel like I only have 5 sections.</p>
<p>pared or paring or paired?</p>
<p>I have no one to compare with then :(. I notice that the room I was in had a variety of different test form. Is it like this at every test center? Last time I took the ACT I believe the entire class had the same forum number.</p>
<p>Is the curve going to be bigger? English had a few weird ones, and science was hard…</p>
<p>i hope so. english was weird. so was math. reading was good. science was odd too. </p>
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<p>Keep it up guys… Keep posting answers so you guys get your scores cancelled and we get our scores earlier! :D</p>
<p>As someone who didn’t take this ACT (I only took the June and September ACTs), what did you guys think was so hard about this test specifically? I hear a lot of complaints about the science and needing to know things beforehand (the ACT seems to be switching their policy on this based on past tests), but other than that what was difficult about this ACT specifically? Were the double passages hard for reading? It seems like they changed the format of the science section.</p>
<p>The one in September felt much easier to me than the one in June, just because I felt like the math had less involved questions and the English had easier rhetorical skills questions. But I’m interested to hear what was hard about this ACT.</p>
<p>@micmatt513
English: some more (2-3) iffy questions that you could honestly argue between two answers
Math: not very much change. Maybe a little more reasoning based, but really not a lot of change
Reading: dual passage, which is not really new - it has been that way since the april test. The prose fiction was named something else like “narrative something” but was about the same
Science: most change here. Only 5 or 6 passages, with no five question passages and 2 conflicting view points. Also, it required more prior knowledge than usual</p>