Official ACT October 26 Discussion THREAD

<p>English was esay, math was meh BUT I ran out of time, reading was easy, science was *** hard</p>

<p>it might be. Usually not, but perhaps. I got a 35 on english last time and thought that I only got one wrong, so i’m not too sure @profamel.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure I got 2 wrong in English and I usually end up with nothing wrong but those random vocab questions were annoying and caught me off guard. I knew hurtled was the right answer and I marked it on my answer sheet to change it because hurdled look weird in context but I’m pretty sure I forgot to go back. And I put remittance for the penguin passage which I’m 90% sure is wrong aaah</p>

<p>I hope the curves are generous, or else I’m kinda screwed</p>

<p>yeah @proflamel, nice on the hurtled one; i didn’t get that one :confused: but the remittance one was respite.</p>

<p>does anyone know if hurdled or hurtled was “no change”??</p>

<p>Argh, really? I guess I was focusing on something else since it said the neutrinos had no effect on something. Aaaahhh.</p>

<p>The hurdled vs hurtled one was the second choice. The initial word in the passage was hurdled</p>

<p>crap…</p>

<p>4 stages for women one, I knew it was in the passage but it didn’t match any of the answer choices??</p>

<p>Do you guys know the one in the English section that was like “he quipped in retrospect ironically” and it asked where to put the commas? What was it? I was so confused cause I thought the word order was funky.</p>

<p>@amrita</p>

<p>the “in restrospect” has to be in commas since its not necessary</p>

<p>The four stages one referred back to the second author’s description of the stages in brackets I’m pretty sure. IDR what the order was but it ended in freedom</p>

<p>@amrita I think it’s “he quipped, in retrospect ironically,”</p>

<p>that was a terrible question! I kept changing my answer, I think I said no commas except for at the end before the quote… but I was between these 2:</p>

<p>he quipped, in retrospect, ironically "
or
he quipped in retrospect ironically, "</p>

<p>I chose the 2nd because I thought there had to be a comma before the quote…</p>

<p>Oh no. I put “he quipped ,in retrospect, ironically” None of the answers sounded right to me…</p>

<p>I took 73A, and I have to say that English was easy, although I spent the last 3 minutes of English staring at the hurdled/hurtled question and went with hurdled </p>

<p>Math was tough, I guess on about 5 because I ran out of time :(</p>

<p>Reading was easy for the most part. They through a curve-ball for the 3rd passage and did two different sections, something I haven’t seen before. </p>

<p>I should have done that one last because I ended up guessing on about 5 questions on the last passage. </p>

<p>Science was easy for the most part. I had enough time to check my answers over.</p>

<p>Hopefully I’m lucky and many of my guesses are right :)</p>

<p>@amrita - That’s what I put too. I felt like it should have been “he quipped, in retrospect, ironically,” but since that wasn’t an option, the comma after ironically seemed the least necessary.</p>

<p>@19KLS96 That’s exactly what I thought.</p>

<p>@19kls96 I thought that too at first, but then I think I changed my answer to have a comma before the quote because I thought it was necessary… You’re probably right though!! :/</p>

<p>That was my first ACT I’ve ever taken and dang… the math and science section were difficult. I found the other ones somewhat difficult but the math got me stumped. I had form 73A, I believe, and there’s this one math problem that’s been bugging me! </p>

<p>Did anyone know how to solve the one in which there was a penny falling from 400ft and you were supposed to use the equation d(distance, so, 400)= -16t^2+400. I accidentally spent too much time on it and didn’t get to finish my math equations. =/</p>