<p>^No, there really is. There wouldn’t be vague ones on an easy curvy test like June, but on the hard curves they can get annoying, almost as bad as CR.</p>
<p>I generally did not find the reading questions easier on the ACT. I don’t know if I find the ACT questions as a whole easier. I don’t know why people say that they think the ACT is for academic, hard-working people and the SAT measure intelligence.</p>
<p>On the SAT, either you simply know how to solve the math questions or you don’t.</p>
<p>On the writing section, you either know grammar or you don’t.</p>
<p>On the reading section, you either know the vocab or you don’t. The passages seem to require more thinking because of the choices available, but it also seems that the information is always directly in the passage, no tricks involved.</p>
<p>I feel the ACT the same way; either you simply know the material or you don’t.</p>
<p>EDIT: Then again, what the Hell do I know? I’m struggling to get a 30+ and 1300/1600.</p>
<p>dude, i’m sorry, but you’re so wrong.</p>
<p>the SAT tries to trick you, so even if you know your math, you can still be tricked, same goes for grammar.</p>
<p>vocab is only a little bit of the reading.</p>
<p>OH, WAIT A MINUTE. I didn’t notice the edit…hehe, you are correct ;)</p>
<p>I can’t say that I’ve been tricked on the grammar. I am willing to suggest that I simply did not know the rules of grammar well enough. </p>
<p>As for math, no matter how tricky one thinks the questions and choices are, if you understand for what the test is asking but can’t figure out how to solve it, it’s clear cut that one does not simply know how to do the math.</p>
<p>“I can’t say that I’ve been tricked on the grammar. I am willing to suggest that I simply did not know the rules of grammar well enough.”</p>
<p>You should say “I can’t say I haven’t been tricked”.</p>
<p>Maybe it was your rhetorical skills ;)</p>
<p>I actually just did a CR section… Man, I hate it. There’s almost always 2 correct answers, but one is somehow more right then the other…</p>
<p>I noticed this most in the comparing passage one… My god, I swear that 3 answers worked, but only one is somehow right… Hate the SAT reading personally. :D</p>
<p>When I know the right answer on the ACT, it’s always there, every single time, no problems. SAT is a mixed bag. The one passages aren’t bad, but the comparison one is craaazzzy. I can’t remember that much information, my god. And even if I do, I still can’t choose which answer is best.</p>
<p>I agree with cjgone
SAT reading is very in depth analysis in my opinion whereas ACT reading is a read-then-look-at-passage-for-answer thing, although the time limit is pretty rough sometimes</p>
<p>“I actually just did a CR section… Man, I hate it. There’s almost always 2 correct answers, but one is somehow more right then the other…”</p>
<p>I haven’t ever had this problem, and I usually get 75% or so of the passage questions right.</p>
<p>600 on SAT CR 35 on ACT Reading…
770 on SAT Writing, 31 combined ACT English/ Writing…</p>
<p>dang…</p>
<p>I’ve never seen anything quite like that.</p>
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Actually, I wasn’t trying to say that lol. I don’t think the SAT has deep analysis, more of the opposite. The more you know the lower chance you’ll get it right. You pretty much have to toss anything that you know about the topic and change your mind to what the SAT people want you to know. Add that with poorly worded question, yuck.</p>
<p>I like the SAT passages more than the ACT passages. </p>
<p>I also like the SAT Writing section 10x more than the ACT English section, even though I got a 32 on the English Part and a 670 on the SAT. Weird.</p>
<p>Why do you like it better then?</p>
<p>I just like the questions more. I hate having to read the passages on the ACT to find out in which context the correct sentence should be.</p>
<p>For the SAT, that is only a small part of the writing section. I like just having one sentence per question and figuring out what is wrong with it. :D</p>
<p>I think the ACT reading section is much easier. No vocab, easy questions, only one section. Plus, there’s (usually) a similar -1 curve to SAT CR anyways.</p>
<p>^ dude, the reading curve can be pretty freaky sometimes, much more so than CR.</p>
<p>The curve is way more brutal on the ACT. -5 = 30, -10 = 690-710 on the SAT depending on the difficulty.</p>
<p>And there shouldn’t be a vocab section anyway. So pointless.</p>
<p>Well, it is a good indication of how</p>
<p>a) good at reading they are</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>b) has a really good work ethic and memorizes countless words</p>
<p>SAT CR is less difficult-- for me at least. my CR scores were 730, and 800. on the red book test, i score a 32-33. i score 27s in the PR 1296. its the last passage…im not good at the science questions…</p>
<p>but i like the ACT math and english sections a lot more than SAT.</p>
<p>PS egbert souse, when i used your science advice, it worked really well. i had 10 extra minutes. thanks =)</p>
<p>Egbert Sous</p>