Official December 10th ACT Reading Discussion

<p>I put random chronology for the rose passage because I thought the time was all over the place…</p>

<p>@starchy: it was he spoke out against the technique im pretty sure. how does that change anything? the facts are : he used them, he did not like them, he had a gift for them. piece these together and you’ll find the answer. then again, i forgot the other choices so maybe im missing something.</p>

<p>@thecudlife: @statlanta omg this question was so annoying. I put J, fundamental difference on the definition of time spot. At first I put your answer, F. but then compare these two: The question states Wordsworth whatever … “spots of time of experience that takes on new meaning after many years.”" and the passage says “… except these spots of time is junk”. So basically it boiled down to the definition of fundamental. It was a toss up for me, but my thought process is Wordsworth believes the spots of time are EXPERIENCES while the narrator thinks the spots of time is JUNK. The FUNDAMENTAL difference in the DEFINITION of “spots of time”. That is, not the concept behind them, but what exactly “spot of time” is. Again ,its a tossup for me but I changed my answer from by and large to difference. </p>

<p>please read previosu pages i posted it on pg 7</p>

<p>It definitely was not all over the place. The consensus here seems to be loosely chronological. I put that too, but I was wondering, what exactly is the difference between loosely chronological and strictly chronological? That’s not a quantifiable difference, so it was a bit tricky.</p>

<p>I don’t see how the answer that he had a gift for caricatures and spoke out against them is wrong when it’s explicitly said so in the passage.
And what are you trying to say then? lol I agree with you that is the right answer.
So you put that too? Great!</p>

<p>And I’m guessing for strictly chronological, it had to not been out of order at all.</p>

<p>Strictly chronological would mean that the passage went exactly in the order of time. Because it did not, and because it wasn’t completely random (random chronological is an oxymoron), it must be loosely chronological</p>

<p>@dfree124 the difference is exactly what it sounds like. strict means completely chronological, that is, NO time leaps. The passage had time leaps, for example, it would refer to the present and then go back to the 18th century. although the general format was chronological (China > Greeks/roman> present was the GENERAL timeline)</p>

<p>@starchy: was that the answer choice? i dont think both that choice and the decried choice would be put in the same question. did you remember wrong? or can you relist them for me?</p>

<p>Edit: oh , is the difference between the choices that he used them? im thinking you may be right because the passage might have said he used them in his cartoons, not his murals. but i know for sure he used them in SOMETHING.</p>

<p>Right, so I went with loosely chronological as well.</p>

<p>That was an answer choice, it was either D or E.
It said that he had a gift for them and spoke out against the technique of it. There was nothing else added on about whether or not he actually used them.
The decried answer was that he often decried them and did not use them, this was B.</p>

<p>dfree124 says it was a choice, and 2 other people in the thread put it also.</p>

<p>He did use them in his murals. I quoted what he said earlier.</p>

<p>What was the fundamental dynamic question</p>

<p>starchy: oh. he clearly used them. i dont think I’m stupid enough to put the decried answer then, but i feel like I did. your completely right if the decried answer said he didn’t use them. Hm interesting. would suck if I got that wrong even though I knew the right answer. i do remember answering the question in a hurry and flipping the page right after so i may have read wrong.</p>

<p>what was the answer for the import politics?</p>

<p>meaning, I think</p>

<p>I think most people here didn’t read the whole answer, I didn’t at first either, saw the first part about decried and just chose it. I put it as decried at first too, but when I finished I had about 5 minutes left so I went back and saw that it said that he didn’t use them in the answer choice and changed it.</p>

<p>Plus, that whole gift and spoke out against, WAS a choice. They wouldn’t put two right answers for one question.</p>

<p>@michael meaning. rose was giving meaning of keep secret, sub rosa
@starchy: you seem sure of it so ill give u the benefit of the doubt. careless mistake on my part , DAMNIT :O9</p>

<p>I know I didn’t get a 36 on this section because of the whole loose/strict thing, I just hope it’s high enough to outweigh my science section.</p>

<p>And the answer for politics was meaning.
The conservative opinion was by the lady scientist.
The Mexican painter went on to greater success in Mexico (not exact wording) after leaving the U.S.
I put that he greatly applied Wordworth’s spots of times, but I’m not sure, it could’ve been that it was fundamentally different. The other thread was arguing about it too.</p>

<p>I thought he applied Woodworth’s spot of times too. I definitely could be wrong though.</p>

<p>The junk shop passage: one of the answers was ignorance. (word by word from the passage)</p>

<p>what event happened first in the last passage?
and also what was the 16th century one for the rose passage?</p>