<p>Reading... grrr</p>
<p>I get 36s straight on readings, none wrong when I just do practice sections, but when I do it under a time limit i usually have to rush and miss like 1 per passage. And on top of that, I had to randomly fill in on half of the Hubble passage.</p>
<p>of course, these are all in my opinion (but i'm usually right haha)</p>
<p>"play with" ---> develop
the one thing was foreshadowing</p>
<p>the math hyperbola asymptote thing was (2,-3)</p>
<p>and in science ALWAYS READ DNA FROM THE BOTTOM UP</p>
<p>Are scored averaged inflated/deflated based on how everyone as a whole does? Such as if everyone does bad on reading that they'll inflate it?</p>
<p>Lol... That'd be nice. The curve from Kaplan is harsh (for Reading and Science).</p>
<p>DNA.. Bottom up..? :(.. I totally screwed up that WHOLE section then.. I thought it was bottom up for a minute during the test.. cause one question asked which strand did the bases AT_ _ came from.. and I couldn't match it from top to bottom.. but hesitated to believe that DNA strands are read from bottom up... (It probably said it in the passage.. but didn't read it.. :().. <em>sigh</em>.. my score has bombarded.. I still don't know whether I should cancel it for not! It was my first time to take it, so i would like to know how I did, but I don't want it to be on the transcript.. </p>
<p>Oh yeah! My bro took the ACT with me that day and he told me that they redistributed the English, Reading and Science part of the test.. cause he remembered the same passage w/ questions he took 2 years ago when he was a junior.. with the E-mail thingy in english, the Hubble, Radio, and the Infants from Reading and those crater, atomic number, and DNA too.. darn.. !!! The sad part was that if it was true.. i should have looked at the test.. We had a copy of it a while ago.. and now we can't seem to find it!!!..</p>
<p>Wow, then I BOMBED that science passage. Ah well, I don't really care. I've become numb to the whole ACT thing...</p>
<p>The sequenced strand can be read 5' to 3' by reading top to bottom the bases complementary to the those on the gel.</p>
<p>Sometimes that is the case, but in a traditional genetical analysis, one always reads from the bottom up. Either way it makes no difference. It clearly stated in that experiment that the base sequence should be read from the bottom up. THat was quite a large part of that science passage. I think there were 3 or 4 questions just about reading base sequences.</p>
<p>Why is the science based so much on Chemistry, and not as much on Biology/Phyiscs/Earth Science?</p>
<p>It said in the passage to read it bottom up but complementary to those on the gel which means the opposite way...kinda makes sense!</p>
<p>Ok, so we were suppose to read them top to bottom or bottom to top? ::is confused:: I'm so strange. I JUST finished a semester of genetics at school and I never came across which way to read them...It makes more sense for them to be read top to bottom, otherwise the base titles (A, T, C, G) would've been at the bottom, right?</p>
<p>aye, on that "play with" question, what were the choices.</p>
<p>Because, logically when you play with a previously suggested idea, you USE IT to formulate your own theory. What ere the choices because I'm sure develop cannot be the answer.</p>
<p>play with </p>
<p>transitive verb </p>
<ol>
<li><p>think about: to consider a plan or idea without doing very much to make it happen</p></li>
<li><p>treat carelessly: to treat somebody or somebodys feelings carelessly or irresponsibly</p></li>
<li><p>deal with something half-heartedly: to deal with something unenthusiastically or haphazardly, for example, by pushing food around a plate without eating</p></li>
</ol>
<p>BTW, the english was EASY, the math eas okay but I bubbled in 4 Cs, the reading was fine, and the science DNA was no good.</p>
<p>also, on the last science question, was it that the liquid always became hotter faster or something like that.</p>
<p>one more thing, for the dna section, how many Cs were there because I had to put all 4 Cs. The crater problem was easy though.</p>
<p>Can anybody tell me how I can get copies of about 10 or 12 past real ACT tests ? If anybody has them, I will pay for those. Please send me a private message if you can help.</p>
<p>You can get three old ACT tests, with DETAILED explanations of the right answers, from the new</a> official cram book. The answer choices are pretty straightforward once you get used to thinking about them in low-pressure situations.</p>
<p>I took the ACT for my first time on Saturday and I thought it was hard, but not terrible. For the DNA part when the question was the order of bases is GGAA what is the next base? What did you all get for that.</p>
<p>I was confused on the DNA one too, where it asked which string atcg (or something like that)would be a fragment of. I eliminated 3 and 4 right away because they didn't have any dna from the last column (I think t) and then I tried the top and bottom of strings #1 and string #2. Since, the fragment wasn't there I realized that it was just a fragment and the only place that sequence occured was in the middle of string 2. Thus, I answered letter B, string 2.</p>
<p>ok, i just realized i was talking about a different question:( For the one that you asked about I think i got g, but i'm not sure. i know the sequence was found reading from bottom to top of string 1 or 2.</p>
<p>I meant, if somebody has past ACT tests besides the ones that are published in the 'Real ACT prep guide', then I can get some extra practice. Does anybody know how to get 10 or 12 more past real ACT practice tests ? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Also, if you have taken the ACT can you order your test to see what mistakes you made ? Do they release those tests to the testtakers ?</p>
<p>"Does anybody know how to get 10 or 12 more past real ACT practice tests?"</p>
<p>That's way too many. You should use the rest of your free time for READING and learning math (I recommend the ALEKS online program for learning math better) and not make test prep your only extracurricular activity. </p>
<p>To build up your English, Reading, and Science scores, read some interesting books and magazines. Turn off the TV and read. Put away the video game cartridges and read. Turn off the IM program and read. Read something interesting to you, and challenging for you at your current reading level. Broad reading experience is the royal road to a high ACT (or SAT I) score. READ, READ, READ, and READ. </p>
<p>To build up your math score, relearn the math you supposedly have already learned. The ALEKS online course will systematically review any subject of K-12 math, and you can even try it out with UNLIMITED free trials at first until you decide to pay for it. There are many good, readable books about math (which, unfortuately, can be hard to find in public libraries). Practice some old math problems. Practice some new math problems. THINK about the math problems as you are doing them. </p>
<p>Good luck. By the way, did I mention how important it is to read and think about math problems?</p>