*OFFICIAL* June 2012 ACT Reading Section discussion

<p>The question was an except one…it asked what the grandmother suggested she would be able to do with a tattoo, EXCEPT…
She said she couldn’t keep her mouth shut for very long while watching the clouds because she didn’t have a tattoo like tattoo woman.</p>

<p>Did tattoos allow one to hear things others couldn’t?</p>

<p>I don’t correlate speaking calmly with keeping your mouth shut for a long time :/</p>

<p>Yes the tats would let her hear things others couldn’t.</p>

<p>Okay, but speaking calmly doesn’t mean speaking less. I’m pretty sure she also said she couldnt sit for very long. did anyone else put ‘speaking calmly’?</p>

<p>No no one else put that because it’s obviously wrong…</p>

<p>Okay, but even then, she never even hinted that a tattoo would allow her to sit in the sun for a longer time…</p>

<p>@Quickerthanswift
Yes, it talked about the lady apparently hearing things or whatever. Some sort of “secret language.”
The hardest part of the fictional piece for me was to not get exasperated with the writing. I know it’s tradition and history and all that but I couldn’t help but think, “tattoos can’t help you do any of this stuff ._.”</p>

<p>@set1012 The answer was A I think, but I can’t remember what the actual wording was.</p>

<p>@yankeedood
I also put speaking calmly. They never mentioned her speaking tone if I could remember, but they hit on the fact that she was able to sit still for a looooong and that was apparently “magical” or whatever.</p>

<p>and the ‘hearing things’ was just another choice for the same question, not a different question right?</p>

<p>I put speaking calmly.</p>

<p>I put speaking calmly too</p>

<p>Did the Humanities section have a lot of C’s???</p>

<p>I put speaking calmly, but what was the question to the answer “after” from alargeblack’s list?</p>

<p>Do you guys think -1 will be a 36 on Reading?</p>

<p>^it was just a continuation of the answer above, his explanation was longer than one line. Silly Ohio State fans.</p>

<p>@meatkabob oh, whoops. I was replying to one about the dictionary passage, and I guess I was way late.</p>

<p>Here it is - "But you see, child, I didn’t have any tattoo around my eyes, and I couldn’t see what she saw. I didn’t have any tattoo around my lips and on my chin, and I couldn’t shut my mouth for very long. I didn’t have any tattoo on my forehead, and I couldn’t concentrate on the ocean’s language.’</p>

<p>It said what would the tattoo not allow her to do. AND SINCE, she was CLEARLY able to sit for long hours in the sun…and she had no tattoo…now what can we say?</p>

<p>What was the answer to the question about the how the grandmother felt with the sun in her face?</p>

<p>I put something along the lines of soothing… forgot every single option.</p>