Official Dec 2012 SCIENCE thread

<p>Idk but I thought the science was easier than last time.</p>

<p>holy **** cobalter i only read 2 pages and it’s the exact same</p>

<p>OMG they are!! they even have the same answers! a</p>

<p>I had 71A today and 71A in october apparently, but the year on the test booklet was the right year (2012-2013). I hope I don’t get penalized, this was my last chance…</p>

<p>( what if they made a huge mistake? will we have to retake)</p>

<p>can you imagine the advantage it gave the people that took it in last october? …is this consistent with other sections?</p>

<p>*** so messed up</p>

<p>Yes, I immediately recognized the second english passage, and ALL of the reading passage. Not sure on the math though.</p>

<p>has anything like this happened before?</p>

<p>I really have to retake the easiest science I have ever taken in my life?</p>

<p>So i checked every discussion thread from 2011 october…its the exact same test…i have no idea what act is going to do but atleast we don’t need to discuss anymore (we can just look at their 10+pages of discussion! XD)</p>

<p>Does anyone think our scores will be voided? I saw the bumped thread of reused tests and there’s a general pattern (december test is reused from previous year’s october).</p>

<p>Nah ofc our scores won’t be voided. This is just some weird thing ACT does (wish I would have known about this lol, would have definitely searched up the previous october discussion threads)</p>

<p>Damn… well this kind of sucks. </p>

<p>The curve’s going to be messed up with these people who are seeing the questions for the second time. Maybe we should stop discussing this. We certainly don’t need people going crazy and telling ACT that the test was invalid. Even though I haven’t seen the test before, I still thought it was relatively easy overall. </p>

<p>I do have a couple science questions.</p>

<p>What was the instrument they used to measure biomass.
Microscope, balance, hydrometer, or scale?</p>

<p>The experimenters went to the higher altitude location in order to lower… gravity or air resistance? </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>For the higher altitude, it was lower air resistance because the lower the air resistance, the closer it gets to being the conditions in a vacuum (no air). Gravity is basically the same 9.81 for wherever you go on earth.</p>

<p>I put balance for that other question, since scale would be measuring weight, not mass. I am didn’t look past balance for the answers though, since I was confident that was the answer as soon as I saw it.</p>

<p>Balance
and I think it was lower air resistance. It’s true that gravity also decreases just slightly but that would be negligible, and I think air resistance could screw up results because of different ball surface areas and such</p>

<p>Looks like I definitely missed one because I blanked…but other than that I’m pretty confident on this section (and all the others…)</p>

<p>This section was a pleasant surprise for me, I found it to be very straight forward</p>

<p>it is air resistance. In the intro is says they used an experiment zone where the pressure and temp (air resistance) was standard…</p>

<p>How about the .2 mol/L…did both decrease?</p>

<p>@lukelev
Yeah both decreased</p>