Official June 10th ACT Discussion

<p>crap I don't remember anything about open Illinois prairie</p>

<p>You guys scared me for a second! I though you were talking about CR, and I was so afraid I missed a section. But then I realized you were talking about the sentence correction. Yeah, no comma.</p>

<p>Aaaah! I'm so nervous..... the ACT has such unpredicctable curves. 2 wrong in a section can be a 32, or 36. So my score can be anywhere from a 32-35!!!!! Anyone else feeling like me?</p>

<p>2 wrong and a 32? I doubt the curve was ever that harsh</p>

<p>i dont think it is ever harsher than one wrong 35, 2 wrong 34, 3 wrong 33, 4 wrong 32... ect... or was it!!?!</p>

<p>anyone remmeber any science?</p>

<p>i know that colleges generally take your highest SAT score from each sitting and add them together (highest math, verbal, writing). Do they do that with ACT as well?</p>

<p>Sophie,
Sometimes, though rarely, it is harsher (i.e., 1 wrong = 34, 2 wrong = 32).</p>

<p>pk,
It's not that unpredictable. You can bet that two wrong is 34 or 35 on all four tests. Reading and Math could be 33-36 and Science could be 32-35 from what I've seen, but anything outside of 34-35 would be very rare.</p>

<p>does anybody remember the question in the reading:</p>

<p>it was the passage concerning the quality revolution... they mentioned some guy and the question asked what was his perspective on i guess the revolution... something about perspective.... what was the answer?</p>

<p>and can you miss </p>

<p>6-7 in the reading and make a 30?
6-7 in the science and make a 30?</p>

<p>i doubt it for science but a good shot for reading</p>

<p>viking
are you talking about the electronic revolution and how quality increased, if so then which question in particular are you talking about...</p>

<p>in the quality revolution passage, what was the answer to the one question asking which of the following is NOT suggested in the passage about companies before the revolution...or something like that</p>

<p>i think i put D</p>

<p>it was something about quality thats all i remeber about the answer..</p>

<p>Here's a few questions that I can remember with various degrees of success:</p>

<p>1) An obtuse isosceles triangle is drawn. The picture looks like: <a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Ejadixon/t3bp8.JPG%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jadixon/t3bp8.JPG&lt;/a> The two congruent sides are on the top. A line is drawn to the base that bisects the top obtuse angle. Which side of the triangle is the shortest?
-Options were something like:
A) The left part of the bottom base after it's cut by the top angle's bisecting line B) The right part of the bottom base, C) The line drawn from the top angle that bisects the top angle (ie would normally look like the height). note: it wasn't as obvious as the picture shows. By mathematical means, which is correct?</p>

<p>2) A circle has the midpoint (5,1). A line drawn intersects this circle at (7,-1). Which of the following lines would NOT intersect the circle?
-The coordinates might not be exactly right, but they are close. The answer choices were all x=something. I remember first, third and last.
A) x=2. B) x=5. C) x=9</p>

<p>3) A log question, don't remember exact numbers, but basically it was:
Given: log(base of three)A = 2.98. Given: A * B = 2. Given: log(base of 2)B = x. What is B?
-I don't remember the answers. I did this brute method though that I think would work? Find A (easy), then multiplied all answer choices by it until I found a 2. unfortunately no answer choices seemed to be a 2 when multiplied, but closest was like 2.09etc. Don't remember if the question mentioned an answer 'about or rounded', but I don't think so...</p>

<p>i don't remember those questions at all.</p>

<p>were they on the act?</p>

<p>wow.. I didn't have any of those questions.</p>

<p>It's a different test booklet I guess. I wasn't able to take the June 10th test.</p>

<p>Side note: Ugh, of course, the distance formula on #2. <em>bangs head on wall</em>. The distance between those two points would have to be equal to distance of any other point on the circle. Looks like x=9 was right though and that's what I put (if I remember the coordinates close enough). I kept messing with the circle equation instead and kept coming up empty.</p>

<p>oh my god, i was so scared, i was like those questions werent on my test</p>

<p>does anyone remember any tough questions from the science or reading? i want a 34+ score so like id like to see if i missed any of the ones everyone thought was tough. If its already in the forum dont repost a question.</p>

<p>Any opinions on the answer to the question #1 I posted above? (That's the only question i'm sure I copied word for word since it had no numbers in it.) I put that it was C, the 'height', since I thought that if the top angle was bisected, the two pieces of the base it divides would have to be equal, though i'm not positive on that. Hence, since ACT wouuldn't put two right answers, it had to be C.</p>

<p>I'm guessing I got the log question right, since that method should have worked even though it's not really <em>proper</em>. At least I don't think it is...</p>