Official December 10th ACT Reading Discussion

<p>panmit2, if you’re asking about the exception question: orozco raised controversy because his art was mexican, because his painting was expensive, and one other reason i fail to remember. but he was not controversial because he trash talked dartmouth art faculty. I remember D was the correct answer.</p>

<p>hm, i put fundamental difference in the definition of spots of time, i think it was the last answer choice. Wordsworth says that spots of time are experiences, the author says they are junk. Although they are the same principle, the definitions of “spots of time” for the two are definitely different. I dont know, I put by and large at first but i looked at that problem for 2 minutes when i finished early. Maybe I shouldn’t have overthinked it? XD</p>

<p>@panmit A and C are wrong for sure. b or d, i forgot which though. the article is online though if u wanna check, starchywinky posted it</p>

<p>There was not an answer choice for social commentary, it was implied as the content of the mural. Disparaging remarks was choice D.</p>

<p>ya it was definitely the option of him going against the art faculty since they supported him and it didnt mention that.</p>

<p>everything else made total sense</p>

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<li><p>he was a foreigner, people would get mad that a foreigner is being hired when an american artist could have done.</p></li>
<li><p>it was like the depression or something, idk. it was a bad financial time for the country and people were annoyed that this artist was being paid so much, slash that this project was even being undertaken.</p></li>
<li><p>lets give the dude the benefit of the doubt, what’s he gonna paint? OH some apocalyptic thing that portrays america in a bad way? what is this! it should be a “amiable depiction of new england” as they believed. </p></li>
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<p>they all those complaints against him. not that he went against the art faculty.</p>

<p>i really didnt get the whole Wordsworth thing but i agree that it was faithfully apply because as someone stated above, he applied to junk, not experiences.</p>

<p>In passage 2 there was a question that said something like: “which sentence reflects what happened after the roman’s demand exceeded their supply?” I put the answer “Romans started to grow their own roses”</p>

<p>And for the exception question about future roses, I think I put importers but that’s probably wrong.</p>

<p>I agree neuroscience, it seems like he invoked wordsworth to apply “spots of time” to junk, not to redefine “spots of time” as something that is exclusive to “junk”</p>

<p>@salem, I believe I put importers as well. can’t remember why</p>

<p>I said importers too for the exception question about future roses…I’m fairly sure that was right. Can anybody confirm?</p>

<p>and also agreed with @salem regarding the romans growing their own roses</p>

<p>Nope, sorry guys, the answer was they started to grow their own. The passage said that they were already importing roses, but then the demand increased and they weren’t getting enough. Since they weren’t getting enough they started growing their own.</p>

<p>oh, i think i must be confusing my answer with some other question? I totally agree with what you’re saying dfree and, for that question, I put that they started growing their own. not trying to ■■■■■. hah.</p>

<p>Nah it’s cool. All the answers are kinda fuzzy in my head too.</p>

<p>Yeah you’re confusing it with something else…we’re talking about the paragraph that mentioned Crete… (unless I’m the only one thinking that :P)…it was like the people of Crete did not import roses</p>

<p>Ah. May have missed the wordsworth problem then! oh well, I just need a 34 and it looks like I got a 34 or 35. ^^. its safe to assume each problem wrong is just -1 point right? so I could miss 2 on each section?</p>

<p>I think you could be bumped down to a 34 on reading for getting one wrong, but it really depends on the curve for this test. I know it’s definitely happened on past tests though</p>

<p>-1 for 34? Wow…that’s harsh.
Out of the Real ACT Prep tests -1 is always 36. On one of the tests -2 is still 36 lol.</p>

<p>Passage 4:

  1. Clementine preceded first
  2. what was the main theme of the passage: I said it was general then further explained throughout the essay. anyone remember what the answer choices were?
  3. blue color: surface age of the crater
  4. Briotti thought Stuart was conservative
  5. the crater caused the huge ball of dust or enamation of dust something of that nature
  6. the second paragraph showed there was dispute among scientists.
  7. embarrasing mistake, amateur mistake
  8. transient phenomena: was this “B”
  9. ejecta blanket? <a href=“or%20has%20this%20been%20listed%20already?%20I%20don’t%20remember%20most%20of%20the%20questions”>B</a>**
    10.</p>

<p>do we only need one more?</p>

<p>When I took the April 2011 ACT, I ordered the TIR (Test Information Release). It showed the scale they used and there was no curve (at least not a favorable one).</p>

<p>English:
36-75
35-74
34-73</p>

<p>Math:
36-60
35-59
34-(57-58)</p>

<p>Reading:
36-40
35-
34-39</p>

<p>Science:
36-40
35-
34-39</p>

<p>English and Math were fairly straightfoward, with a little lenience in math. Reading and Science were both brutal, as missing one question already knocked you down to a 34.</p>

<p>What was the exact question that asked something about Stuart and how he’s conservative?</p>

<p>It asked about Biotti’s opinion of Stuart (which was that Stuart’s treatment of his findings was very conservative)</p>

<p>hey starchy i got the same answer as you and after much contemplation he was good at caricatures but spoke out against itS TECHNIQUE</p>

<p>i got C :)</p>