Official September 2013 ACT English Thread

<p>For the bat passage including the choice of infested something like that. Can somebody tell me what the no change was??</p>

<p>The English curve is always harsh. My predictions:
-0 36
-1 34
-2 33
-3 32
-4 30
-5 30</p>

<p>nawwwwwww^</p>

<p>Hoping for a 30!</p>

<p>@jtc2762: You would think that because there are 75 questions, you should be able to get at least one wrong for a 36. However, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a curve as such. It’s always -0 for a 36 in English.</p>

<p>I predict:
36 -0
35 -1
34 -2
33 -3
32 -4
31 -5
30 -6
29 -7/-8
28 -9/-10
…</p>

<p>I think it’ll be more like:</p>

<p>36 -0
35 -1
34 -2, -3
33 -4
32 -5
31 -6</p>

<p>Just because I know a lot of people who missed either the salmon (whom/which) question, or the “horrible” question. I’d really like a 36 again but I kind of doubt that I got it.</p>

<p>Wow. That sounds awful. At least it looks like I’ve only missed one or two. </p>

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<p>guys, there were so many “rookies” taking that test, meaning a better curve for us. just cause we always see people on here expecting themselves a 33+ we think that test was easy, but we ignore the fact that the math, science, and even the english was harder than the practice tests we all took. I mean just look at the math curve for this test…i would’ve easily gotten a 34+ <a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/pdf/Preparing-for-the-ACT.pdf[/url]”>http://www.act.org/aap/pdf/Preparing-for-the-ACT.pdf&lt;/a&gt; this math test is much easier and yet we think the test we took yesterday will have a harsher curve…</p>

<p>When I tool it in April - 1 was a 36. That’s not totally impossible.</p>

<p>@picklechicken37: Seriously?! I guess that’s cool then. I just have never physically seen a -1 for a 36 in English, so I’m speaking in that regard. Either way, fingers crossed for a 35 then. I only have -2 so far that I am aware of.</p>

<p>The “so to be” answer was like the first question in the fish passage. It was something like ‘the canal was built, so to make Seattle a major port city’. I feel like people would remember putting it as an answer. The other possible option might have involved dashes</p>

<p>What do you guys think the curve be like for reading/science?</p>

<p>Jazzed, wasn’t the other answer like “the canal was built - it made Seattle a major port city” or something? Because I thought that sounded better than the “so to be” section. If we’re talking about the same question, that is.</p>

<p>@TeachMeHow @Jazzed Yeah, I think I put the one with the hyphen. It was the only one that made sense. </p>

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<p>Put a hyphen as well, I do remember that one in particular.</p>

<p>Was one of the answers local adult salmon or was it local, adult, salmon.</p>

<p>I said local adult salmon.</p>

<p>Yep. Local adult salmon. Extra commas are a big “No” in the ACT almost 90% of the time. </p>

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<p>So there is still no consensus on:</p>

<p>Women entered the war (or something) rather than be separated from their families.
Women entered the war (or something) rather than having been separated from their families.</p>

<p>that was the hardest question for me. both sounded completely wrong. it should be thrown out in my opinion (if that’s even possible).</p>

<p>I put “than having been.” I know two choices used “then” instead of “than.” And rather than be really doesn’t make sense.</p>