<p>How did everyone think it was?</p>
<p>I thought (predictions):</p>
<p>E: easier than usual (35)
M: much harder than usual (33)
R: average (28)
S: way easy until last fighting scientist section (33)</p>
<p>Hoping for a 32+</p>
<p>bump! 10 char</p>
<p>Also, if you want to identify the state you are from that would be appreciated. I’m curious what states require the March ACT.</p>
<p>I’m from Michigan</p>
<p>I’m from Michigan too :D</p>
<p>I thought the English was a lot easier than expected… I even had time to read through everything two more times</p>
<p>Math was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be</p>
<p>Reading is… meh. I couldn’t focus because the first passage was really boring, so I took a lot longer to finish than usual</p>
<p>Science was fairly easy too</p>
<p>I took it in Michigan today. I took it Feb. 12, as well. Comparatively, today’s ACT seemed quite a bit easier on every section, except the surprisingly challenging math section.</p>
<p>In fact, the only question I blatantly guessed on today was the one with the two towers, which looked like [url=<a href=“http://dl.dropbox.com/u/457347/act%20math%20problem.jpg]this[/url”>http://dl.dropbox.com/u/457347/act%20math%20problem.jpg]this[/url</a>]. What is the simplest way of figuring this one out?</p>
![http://dl.dropbox.com/u/457347/act%20math%20problem.jpg]this[/url](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/457347/act%20math%20problem.jpg%5Dthis%5B/url){kind=link}
<p>As for the other sections, reading was expectedly the most challenging (not saying much). I started out at a very slow pace (the first passage was not interesting to me at all), but things picked up quite a bit for the rest of the section.</p>
<p>Science, which was the section on which I got my lowest score last time, was probably the second-easiest this time around, after English. Most of the questions and answers were pretty straightforward, but it seemed to me like the question that had “cellular respiration,” “meiosis,” “photosynthesis,” and one other as the answer choices required prior knowledge. From my skimming, I saw no mention of either of those terms. I assume “cellular respiration” was the right answer.</p>
<p>And, of course, English was predictably light, and a nice way to start a long test. There were several questions where they wanted to tempt you into replacing a few underlined words with a long phrase that only cluttered the text. There was no who/whom, as far as I can remember.</p>
<p>33 last time, hoping for a 34+. If anything brought me down, it was probably Math. Even there, it’ll probably be a 31 at worst. I hope.</p>
<p>For that math problem I just put y=2x and y= -.75x+30 into my graphing calculator and found the intersection</p>
<p>Also took it today. I thought the English was easy, but probably missed 2-3 like I always do. Math was easy until the last 10…probably missed 3-4. I think I got all of the Reading, may have missed one Science.
so…hopefully:
English 34
Math 34
Reading 36
Science 35</p>
<p>@snowfrye -that answer looks to be roughly 22.</p>
<p>Do you remember what letter than answer was? (Checking to see if my guess was right)</p>
<p>@besjbo - do you remember the last 2 answers to the math section. (letter choices) I guessed, and I want to know If I got it right.</p>
<p>Other than those 3 that I mentioned above, I thought the math wasn’t that bad. I got a 33 last time, and I think I might have a 34 if there’s a generous curve.</p>
<p>I didn’t think it was too bad, hoping to improve on my 33 from last time. Math was harder than normal… what did you guys get for the hexagon one?</p>
<p>In addition to the letter choices, I am also curious how to even do the last one. It asked for the perimeter of a hexagon on a coordinate plane.</p>
<p>@kellian I think I had B or C? I can’t really remember</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the hexagon one was 30 (A) </p>
<p>If you still remember what the diagram looked like, I can explain it, but I don’t remember it anymore</p>
<p>@ snowfyre - Thanks!</p>
<p>It was a hexagon centered at the origin. It had a vertex at either (3,4) or (4,3). It asked for the perimeter of the hexagon.</p>
<p>For the tower one, how many choices were there that had a height of over 20? I know I picked the largest choice, which was somewhere in the 20s. </p>
<p>As for the hexagon one, I’d really have to see the picture to figure it out at this point.</p>
<p>Also, I have no idea what letter choice the last two answers were.</p>
<p>oh yeah, that’s right… I completely forgot that if it’s inscribed in a circle it’s just 6r bc of the 6 equilateral triangles… might have guessed right, not sure anymore.</p>
<p>Oh then for the hexagon problem:</p>
<p>I just realized that I assumed it was a regular hexagon, so this might not be right :O</p>
<p>Since one of the vertices was at either (4,3) ors (3,4) we know that the distance from the origin to the vertex was 5</p>
<p>Regular hexagons are made up of 6 equilateral triangles, so the length of a side of a triangle is 5. </p>
<p>There are 6 triangles 6x5=30</p>
<p>@ besjbo - I believe the biggest answer was something like 22pi. If I remember correctly, there were 2 answers at the start that did not have pi, and the last three all were multiplied by pi.</p>
<p>@ snowfyre - Ya, I thought that might be that, but I didn’t know how to make it a right triangle. Thus, I didn’t know if I could conclude that the distance was 5. (3,4,5 triangle)</p>
<p>@kellian</p>
<p>For the tower one? That’s the one I was asking about. I’m pretty sure none of the answer choices for the tower problem were over 30, since that would’ve eliminated them automatically.</p>
<p>@ besjbo - crap, haha, you’re right. Idk, I thought I remembered that, but I’m probably wrong.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the answer to the second to last question? I guessed, and I am curious to see if I got it right.</p>
<p>It was the question about the chords, asking the sum of degrees of a few angles. I believe I guessed 108 degrees.</p>