*OFFICIAL* September 2012 ACT Reading Section Discussion

<p>adezar…why would you even assume that? i feel that -2 will be a 35.</p>

<p>this was easier than the last one i took… and the curve for that one was -2 = 33
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<p>it’s nice to see your optimism though. I, however, am very jaded. (I still hope you’re right!!!)</p>

<p>LiveLaughLearn everyone here is saying that the curves are predetermined so it wouldn’t matter how easy a test is.</p>

<p>Does anyone have proof that they predetermine the curves? A link to an article maybe?</p>

<p>@Imdad1 I think there was something about it in the FAQs. Someone posted a link before in this thread.</p>

<p>this is going to be impossible to find lol</p>

<p>In the Agriculture passage there was a question about cash crops and I only remember choice A being something about maize. I know my description is vague, but does anyone else remember this question?</p>

<p>I remember that question. I put the answer as the British planting cash crops where labor was more readily available.</p>

<p>Hey Guys,
I had form 70 D and I could have swore that for the writer question my question was how is the second question different from the first. And I put down the Interviewer had some prior knowledge about The author knowing melvilles works or something like that.</p>

<p>How many B’s do you remember getting on the wind chill passage?</p>

<p>does anyone know how many B’s were in the humanity section? since i had to guess the last ten.
thnxs</p>

<p>@SiddySid Phew, glad someone else also put imagination rather than the greater good. I was low on time, and only had the chance to get the gist of the passage. OK, that means the answer to this is probably imagination, not the greater good. Yay!</p>

<p>Already -2 though :/. The chronological question #1 (how did I get #1 wrong -_-) and why in the world did the writer care about global warming, I didn’t even see it in the passage lol. Please be an easy curve. Please, god.</p>

<p>@oaf I believe I had 2 B’s for the last 10 questions on reading :)</p>

<p>For the interview passage about the third question he asked, I put something down more along the lines of the interviewer knew something about what the writer thought of his own writing. Is this the same as you guys saying he knew about his work? I thought they were two different answers but I was pretty sure with that question…</p>

<p>@thirrd Yep, it was the interviewer knew how the writer looked at his own works or something like that.</p>

<p>It seeemed to me that the author seemed not very optimistic about the world. He said he was hopeful, but not optimistic. Also, another part of the passage that indicated to me he wanted to “escape” from reality was when he was talking about all the problems in the world like global warming that were being ignored. Escape from reality through imagination was definitely the answer choice that seemed to resonate with the author and the other one seemed very out of the blue.</p>

<p>The fact that he’s unhappy with how global warming is being ignored supports the answer choice about the greater good, not imagination. Global warming is a reality that people are ignoring, or “escaping.” He is clearly not pleased with how people are ignoring this reality. Thus, I went with the other answer choice.</p>

<p>Any luck finding the first passage?</p>

<p>And this should help with that question you guys are talking about:

Does someone remember the exact wording of the two answer choices?</p>

<p>^ great, now whoever put “imagination” to that question, show me where he also wanted to escape reality. cuz the choice D’s wording was something like “he wanted to escape reality by sparking imagination”</p>

<p>For that question, I think what they were referring to in the passage were the two sentences</p>

<p>“I love my work. It’s the good I have to offer”</p>

<p>He talks about imagination a lot, but not really as an escape. A lot of the ACT questions refer directly to the passage, and “good I have to offer” is pretty close to greater good.</p>

<p>I have two questions hopefully someone can answer, first one is whit the interview</p>

<p>I think it was one of the last ones in the interview, the question was along the lines of Why he enjoyed writing. The answers that i picked between was to give a blueprint for the imagination, and out of self enjoyment or something like that.</p>

<p>The other question was with the the Horse passage. The question that had to do with her uncle and his relationship to her friend! I never read uncle anywhere in the passage! thank you</p>

<p>It was grandfather, not uncle. Their relationship was the island. </p>

<p>3point, “good I have to offer” is pretty different than doing something for the greater good if you ask me, but I’m not the one who makes the questions so we’ll see</p>