Official February 11th ACT Test Thread

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<p>This was my first time taking the ACT, and I was pleasantly surprised that it was pretty easy. My goal is a 33-34. I think I did really well on Math, Reading, and English. However, I was rushed on the Science... I had to guess pretty much for the last passage. Essay was okay.. I found it hard to provide the necessary support in only 30 mins...I am taking the test again in April so if I don't meet my goal this time, hopefully it'll happen next time.</p>

<p>Question:
Reading -- 2nd question or so for the humanities (I think) passage on MLK...It asked about his thesis about a person breaking the law when he/she feels it is unjust but still respecting the law. What is just me or were two the answers really similar? Yeah, I dunno if anyone will remember that, but I'm just throwing it out there.</p>

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<p>usually the right answer choice is paraphrased from the passage. you just have to go back and see which answer resembles the passage the most.</p>

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<p>my test was cancelled....</p>

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<p>Yeah, I had pretty much the same experience as Chisoxgirl. I finished about 15 minutes early on English and thought Math and reading were pretty easy too. I was surprised with reading that most of the answers were actually pretty clear in the passage. Seemed like they just rephrased it. I had a hard time with science. Essay went ok, I feel like I did okay but didn't really have very good support. I'm hoping for a 33+, but we'll see.</p>

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<p>haha I watched the movie Frida last week, it kind of helped me on the reading passage about her.</p>

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<p>see i put students at college (i think morton college) i dunno it could have been people who think they know everything, but that seemed too nice... what do you think??</p>

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<p>how do you do the quetion about the circle being moved 2 units down?</p>

<p>was it just me, or did you guys have enough time on the reading and science?</p>

<p>the english question about the Indian girl: what would the essay primarily use?</p>

<p>and the math question:</p>

<p>sin^2+3COS^2-1 IN TERMS OF COS</p>

<p>My reasoning:</p>

<p>sin^2+cos^2=1, so sin^2=1-cos^2</p>

<p>(1-cos^2)+3^cos^2-1</p>

<p>2cos^s</p>

<p>and last, on each subject test, how do you think is it gonna be scaled</p>

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<p>for the last math problems about the cosines i had about 20 secs to do it so i just plugged in and guessed/checked and i got an answer... schweeet. trig identities suck.</p>

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<p>with regards to the question about the circle that was moved down, the answer was a number minus a radical, which was a little than 7 together.</p>

<p>no work was necessary for that problem. since the circle was being moved down 2 units, all you had to do was imagine a line at y=2 and see where the cirlce would intercept it, which i believe was something a little less than 7 if you eyeball it.</p>

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<p>for the circle one:
vary the original circle equation (x^2 + y^2 = 49 <--radius squared)</p>

<p>to x^2 + (y-2)^2 = 49</p>

<p>you want to find the x intercept when y = 0 so plug in 0 for y</p>

<p>x^2 + (-2)^2 = 49
x^2 = 45
so x = +/- radical 45, which simplifies to +/- 3 radical 5</p>

<p>(which is about 6.7 so yup to the previous post!)</p>

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<p>-cos^2+3cos was the answer vikingmar08 but you probably just made a typo when showing your solution on CC.</p>

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<p>i dont see how you are getting that</p>

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<p>I think it was 3cos(a), not 3cos^2(a).</p>

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<p>sin^2+3cos-1
(1-cos^2)+3cos-1
-cos^2+3cos</p>

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<p>i remember getting -cos^2 + 3 cos
so the original problem must have been:</p>

<p>sin^2 + 3cos -1</p>

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<p>man i read the problem on the test</p>

<p>sin^2+3cos^2-1</p>

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<p>yeah XD i seem to be late in entering! so many people here</p>

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<p>Wow it seems I took a different ACT from everyone. I'm in Canada and we had to reuse a previous test booklet; I thought that was strange and not being able to write it in really threw me off.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if colleges look at individual scores (like they do for the SAT) or do they take the highest composite?</p>

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<p>on each subject test, how do you think is it gonna be scaled</p>

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<p>Just wondering, did you guys get 55 for the math question on French and Chemistry class? I totally blanked out and forgot how to do those questions.</p>