September 2010 ACT Reading Discussion

<p>it was which of the following was a reason why they were not upset (not with two nots)</p>

<p>Ok, now I’m really confused… Maybe they were two different questions?</p>

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Ahh jeez, sounds like I may have misread the question, dumb mistakes can be killers :(. How sure are you that it was “not a reason why they were not upset?” For some reason, I was under the impression that there was an answer that incorporated all of the first 3 choices that you list and then an answer about doug not having flown the plane and then I can’t remember the other two answers.</p>

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<p>this is correct.</p>

<p>The question was worded somewhat like this-</p>

<p>Which of the following is NOT a reason they were NOT upset:</p>

<p>-They could spend their time building a new plane (this was in the passage)
-They could spend their time dreaming of new altitudes and speeds (was in the passage)
-They had accomplished what they originally set out to do (was in the passage)
-Some guy…something (not in the passage)</p>

<p>So it should be D or whatever the original letter choice was. I doubt that there would be two questions pertaining to this.</p>

<p>If my question is wrong, then what were the other answer choices?</p>

<p>^ I don’t remember the first choice on that list being there…</p>

<p>One of the questions had those four options I listed as choices, because I looked all of them up in the passage.</p>

<p>^I think your choices are correct but you were confused by the wording of the question. i think it was “all of the following are reasons why they were not upset EXCEPT”.</p>

<p>^How does that change the answer?</p>

<p>The passage said nothing of that guy flying the plane, so their contentness (aka, “not upset”) did not depend on him. It did, however, depend on those other three options.</p>

<p>:( How is my logic wrong?</p>

<p>Edit: Rewording the question, shouldn’t it read something like “3 of the following choices are reasons the Wright brothers were not upset; pick the one that doesn’t belong” which would mean the doug answer was correct, right…?</p>

<p>Lol, maybe I’m just tired and can’t think straight.</p>

<p>The answer was the Doug one lol, sorry if I misunderstood you. (I thought you were disputing that being the answer)</p>

<p>Vince, out of curiosity, are you a Junior or Senior?</p>

<p>^^Lol, no, that’s what I put :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Wow…we were arguing and we had the same answer =)</p>

<p>@ACTTester: Class of 2011. Are you a senior or junior?</p>

<p>^LOL such a futile thing to argue about when both of us had the same answer</p>

<p>I’m a Junior, haha. :)</p>

<p>Was one of the answers “role” ?</p>

<p>Oh also… The first india question… It was context of the family right?</p>

<p>Uhhh, about the pleasantly surprised question. Is this the question that asked “What did the narrator like about her?” I put that he liked that “She was familiar”. Is this the same question, or a different one?</p>

<p>^ Different one.</p>

<p>^Phew. That scared me for a second.</p>

<p>I’m looking at -1 on this reading section (as far as I’ve seen). Do you guys think there is a curve?</p>