*OFFICIAL* September 2012 ACT Reading Section Discussion

<p>Just put down ur thoughts and questions pls</p>

<p>I actually think I got a 36 on this. Seemed pretty easy unless I made a stupid mistake. I almost did too. I finished with maybe 6 minutes to go, and I checked back the Humanities section and corrected the question that was answered with global warming.</p>

<p>Prose fiction was really easy, humanities killed me, and i ran out of time on the last :/</p>

<p>I usually do horrible on reading (20-26), but I legitimately think a got a 36 this time. Science on the other hand… WHAT THE F WAS THAT!!!</p>

<p>Reading was alright… Not hard, not easy</p>

<p>I thought it was really easy.</p>

<p>what did you guys get for the first question…seriously the only one i didn’t know and it seemed easy…</p>

<p>What happened first chronilogically
a. she though of song
b. riding a horse in the mountains
c. …don’t remeber
d. saw traffic</p>

<p>that was the only one that troubled me, i ended up saying a. c and d happened after a, and b was just an imagination</p>

<p>Riding a horse</p>

<p>Riding a horse…she was thinking back to her time when she wasn’t in America. All the others happened on the bus. The BeeGees was playing on the bus, c was (presumably) on the bus and she saw traffic from the bus.</p>

<p>Anyone else agree?</p>

<p>Overall, I found the questions to be pretty easy, but I still didn’t come close to finishing. The prose fiction seemed especially easy, but I find it so much harder to keep my pace and keep track of time without having a timer right next to me. I didn’t have a good idea how much time was left because the proctor used her phone to keep track of time, which she said was off by several minutes from the school clocks.</p>

<p>Either way, I barely got to the last passage. I think I got nearly all the questions in the first 3 right (maybe missed 1 or 2 in humanities, the second half of the questions were a bit harder), but I ended up just putting B for 9/10 of the last passage.</p>

<p>she was picturing riding a horse, there was no evidence if she was imagining it or it ever really happened, i read it twice over cause i had time at the end</p>

<p>Do you really think the first sentence of the passage is going to answer a question about chronology? That just seems like something the ACT would do to trick you.</p>

<p>I mean, you could be right, but I am pretty confident in my answer.</p>

<p>@redsummer</p>

<p>I put “riding a horse” since the question asked what happened first chronologically in her life, not in the passage. She was thinking back to riding a horse through the mountains or something, iirc.</p>

<p>i guess i was wrong. i interpreted the horse part as just imagining it, but she didn’t actually do it because she was in america on saturday, then she started thinking about what she would be doing if she was home</p>

<p>Thought it was really easy. Anyone remember any questions just to confirm answers. Just say whatever you remember. It may spark someones memory</p>

<p>I remember one passage talking about some girl on a bus leaving home for the weekend or something. Goign to the mountians and taking her horse with her or whatever</p>

<p>Q1: which of the following occured chronologically first?
A. Hearing (singers name’s) voice screeching
B. …
C. …
D. She saw junk and laundry hangning up or something like that</p>

<p>What do u guys put in humanity that what’s a tasty popcorn? I go with novel moby dick…</p>

<p>It was car ad</p>

<p>WAIT WHATTTTTTT i thought it never happened yet and she was imagining herself ridign the horse on the weekend after the bus trip!!!</p>

<p>Yep. Car add. Tasty popcorn was what was wrong with the world at that point.</p>