October 25, 2008 ACT Discussion- Reading

<p>^ yeah why does he list so many famous authors?</p>

<p>I put that it shows his wide variety of appreciation for poems (?). Weird question.</p>

<p>It was a wide variety of appreciation for poems.</p>

<p>Narrator is most unlike his teachers.</p>

<p>right for the first one</p>

<p>i said that the narrator read poetry from those authors</p>

<p>hey guys...for calculating your subscore for a section i found this thing on the back of the McGraw-Hill book...not sure if its right becasue its the only book that has it...i have PR, Barrons, and Kaplan....and McGraw is the only one that has it...it goes like this..</p>

<p>FOR READING - [(Number Correct) X (36)] / 40 = subscore...idk if that corresponds to the December scoring you guys have been posting... </p>

<p>and theres also this correction factor if your in the middle range..</p>

<p>I thought this was pretty easy with the last story being the hardest. I had over five minutes to check my answers though.</p>

<p>What was the answer to the one about what happens to the air when it reaches saturated vapor pressure?</p>

<p>I finally decided on that it will not absorb any more water, although this is not scientifically correct :[ (water will still evaporate..just at the same rate it condenses)</p>

<p>Ugh, I'm really bummed about the "artifacts of the knowledge economy" question.</p>

<p>Is -1 ever a 36?</p>

<p>yea. absorb any more water, that's what i put.
It was inference question so i'm not 100 percent sure. I hope we are right</p>

<p>yeah, one of the practice tests in The Real ACT Guide has a curve of -2=36 for the reading section</p>

<p>I dont know how accurate that curve is. In June I got 1 wrong for the reading and that dropped me to a 35. But lets hope that the curve is similar to the Real ACT Guide book lol.</p>

<p>Really? that's odd because two tests in The Real ACT Guide have a -1=36 and the other has a -2=36</p>

<p>Yeah, I was kinda mad about that curve in June.</p>

<p>jchang, I put that he lists so many authors to show he has an appreciation for a wide range of lit</p>

<p>I agree with NealJ2K. Showing that he read many authors' works did not really support the main idea of the paragraph.</p>

<p>i also said to show he has an appreciation for a wide range of lit.</p>

<p>i dont know how credible i am though lol</p>

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anyone get the hydrowhatever cycle relied on the sun to absorb water from the sea surface...

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<p>What was the other answer choices?</p>

<p>also, what was the quesiton to the "can't absorb any more water" answer?</p>

<p>that last reading passage was a toughy</p>

<p>Yeah the cycle relies the most on absorbing water from the sea. It said in the passage that the sea is the most important source of water for the cycle.</p>

<p>i definitely dont remember that question...</p>

<p>was it the first question of the passage?</p>

<p>I dont remember what number question that was but I definitely remember that being the answer to the question because it directly stated how the cycle relies on absorbing water mostly from the sea.</p>