<p>What do you guys think</p>
<p>Maybe
-1: 36
-2: 35
-3: 34
-4: 33
-5: 32
-6: 31
-7: 30
-8/9: 29
-10: 28</p>
<p>^ I’ve never seen a curve this amazing for the reading. I’d say to get more than a 30 you need to miss less than 5</p>
<p>This was the curve for the june test</p>
<p>@Shirley258 That is wrong. A standard curve (average difficulty) would be -1 36… -3 33… -6 30</p>
<p>This was above average in difficulty so it would probably be -7 = 30</p>
<p>By all means, I hope you are right.</p>
<p>Pretty positive I’m right. I missed 7 on a reading one time and still got a 31. </p>
<p>@DJFlash
Cool that means i might still get a 30</p>
<p>really great news guys</p>
<p>Practice tests 2 and 3 in the Red Book have -8 for a 30. Those arent nearly as difficult as the test given Saturday from what I have read. </p>
<p>Yeah but the red isn’t very reliable anymore. The test has gotten much harder. On the june reading test, -7 was 30 and it was just as hard as saturday’s test</p>
<p>I just want a 34 man. IDC how. I just want a 34</p>
<p>That was definitely harder than average. Most people I know who’ve taken it had time issues on the reading.</p>
<p>The prose fiction was definitely harder than usual and the double passage probably caught some people off guard so I expect there to a pretty nice curve.</p>
<p>I guessed on only 2 in reading this time and was fairly confident on pretty much all the other questions. And im not usually good at reading. The test was actually pretty easy, all of it, except the science for me. I had to blindly guess on 3 or 4. </p>
<p>I thought the reading was about average. I’m surprised a lot of people said the prose fiction was harder than usual, I thought it was fine (though of course I may well have gotten many questions wrong!) I thought the double passage and the natural science passage were kinda hard.</p>
<p>Just wondering, why does everyone say the ACT Reading is hard? If you do any amount of reading outside of school and read more than 200 words per minute (this should be basically everybody who’s taking honors level courses), it should be fairly straightforward. There’s no analysis. There’s no inferring. It’s literally finding the answer in the text and then choosing the answer that comes directly from the text. There are very few “tricky” questions in my opinion, and most of it is just meant to test your basic reading comprehension skills.</p>
<p>I know that this may be a radical suggestion, but why don’t people pick up books outside of school if they find the reading section so difficult? I don’t consider myself an avid reader, but by reading a few books on my own outside school I pretty easily scored a 35 on the reading with zero prep. It’s just a matter of timing and nothing other than - you guessed it - reading will improve your score by any significant margin.</p>
<p>Just my $.02. People try to get around the test by taking prep courses and studying their hearts out. Why don’t people just focus on becoming more intellectual in general and then see that this is actually what will help them succeed on the reading sections?</p>
<p>@micmatt513 we all have strengths and weaknesses mate. I would kill for a 35 in reading, that’s amazing. nothing is hard about the reading, its just the timing that psychs most people (including myself) out. 12 hours</p>
<p>@Peezus - I wouldn’t consider myself a “strong” reader. I have decent reading comprehension. I read <em>fairly</em> quickly (not amazingly fast but at least very good for a high school student) and spend a lot of time on other forums reading and writing. I try to keep up to date on the news and have read a good amount of books outside of school (not more than 10-15, but then again my school requires that I basically read all the time). I spend a lot of time reading random magazines or articles online and just skimming them for information.</p>
<p>I don’t want to downplay a 35 on the ACT, but I think it speaks more about how people prepare for the exam rather than the test itself. I think that people would be much more successful if they put time into just reading every single day, whether it be a news article (or two, or three), magazine article, forum article/post, blog post, or some other kind of reading. Just by doing that, you’re improving your reading comprehension and your speed at reading. The ACT read has never been and will never be about reading every word and looking for some deeper meaning. It’s about getting the general gist of the passage and being able to retrieve information as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>I did this with almost no prep and I have never run out of time on an ACT reading section. I generally finish with about 5-10 minutes to kill and just have absolutely no reason to rush on it. Just by improving reading speed, I think anyone who struggles would do much better. Just my opinion obviously - don’t want to offend anyone who got less than their desired score.</p>
<p>@micmatt513 I’m not atrocious at reading ( I have a 32 on the section), but what differs with the ACT and class is that class actually requires you to analyze and annotate your text. I have become so used to annotating text that I have lost a lot of my ability to try to “speed read”. While annotating text actually brings your brain to concentrate on the material at hand, just reading can cause your brain to drift. </p>
<p>I read a lot, and I mostly do it for fun. I read ahead in my science textbooks, I read scientific journals, I read novels for my class that require reading a little bit everyday. But, I ALWAYS annotate and take my time making sure I enjoy the text. On the ACT, you simply do not have time to absorb information. On the ACT, you are required to recall some of the most pointless information from the text and apply it to a question. </p>