2013 september act exam thoughts

baileyj57
Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:01:20 +0000

English: Easier than usual imo. I think I missed 2-3 at the most which should be 33-35 depending on the curve. Definitely happy with this.

Math: The first ~55 with the exception of 2 (the one with the parabola, and the one with triangles in a circle and you had to figure out which was biggest angle) were easy. However, the last five (the “two multiplications” one, the one where the answer choices were like 7/sin 28, 7/cos 56 etc, the one with the inequalities for the triangle like 2a+2b>a+b+c in particular were hard) were really hard! I was hoping for a 34+ based on practice tests but now I’m thinking a 32-34 based on getting 5-6 wrong.

Reading: Easier than usual for the humanities and social science prompts (bookstores & movie lighting). Prose section I think I did better than I was expecting, but not completely sure because I ran out of time and don’t remember all my answers. Natural science was a bit more difficult than usual. Expecting a 34-35.

Science: Five passages were about the level of difficulty I expected. Two of them were god awful, though, and I think I completely bombed the whole section because of the two (the one about soil or whatever, and the one about catalyses or whatever). Hopefully a 31-32 but a 29-30 is more realistic.

Writing: I was hoping to improve from last time (I got a 9) but I don’t think I did. I don’t think I did any worse though.