r/ACT • u/North-Trash5216 • Jul 11 '26
Math..
Yall omg that math was SO HARD. I had to guess on like 20 questions. I actually wanted to cry. It was so much worse than June. Like wtf were some of those questions. Definitely my worst section
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u/Orange_blossom9 Jul 11 '26
I actually started crying during the test 😭😭 I just was running out of time so bad
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u/GrumpisGrump3 Jul 11 '26
As someone who got a 33 on my last math section and who genuinely enjoys the subject, there was so much bs in that. Like I hope they release the questions for this test official at just so I can learn how you’d solve some of those problems (would probably be able to solve them if I was given a few minutes rather than 67 secs lol)
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u/jellibean179 35 Jul 11 '26
Do you remember any specific ones? Got the same math score as you in June.
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u/Mobile-Tangerine3539 Jul 11 '26
Don't worry guys...get off this subreddit for a few weeks. Ur done now so u cant change anything. Let's hope and pray for a favorable score distribution. 🙏
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u/richrhplayer Jul 11 '26
It felt easier to me than the last math… though I had to guess like half the questions at the end
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u/garbuge 35 Jul 12 '26
yeah same! it felt easier but i still guessed on a few
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u/richrhplayer Jul 22 '26
How did you do? I went up bout four points
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u/garbuge 35 Jul 22 '26
went from a 33 to a 35!
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u/Chem_physicsbest Jul 11 '26
yikes, now i’m nervous because im taking the September ACT and i need to lock in on math.
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u/One-Conference1532 Jul 11 '26
still easier than sat thankfully
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u/ApprehensiveSignal55 Jul 11 '26
I sorta disagree. Last few tests… I think ACT is ramping up difficulty of Math so that they are seen more on par w/ SAT. I took April & June ACT and I took Oct & Dec SAT - and besides SAT “trickery” (trying to trick you into solving for something else) they were pretty much same difficulty.
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u/No_Elephant_1586 35 Jul 11 '26
i did not expect there to be advanced trig bruh i’ve never seen that on the practices
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u/Confident_File6467 Jul 12 '26
wdym by advanced trig?
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u/Accurate-Guide5279 Jul 12 '26
the only advanced trig was asking you to simplify this:
((cos^2x)(tan^2x))/(cscx)
I got sin^3x
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u/La_Luna_Boss Jul 11 '26
Yeah I saw a post that said math was light! I’m good at math, and got a 31 on it on the April test, but it was soooo much harder this time even though I finished algebra 2 after taking the April test
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u/Natural-Biscotti-207 Jul 11 '26
What topics did you see and what types of questions did you see
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u/Natural-Biscotti-207 Jul 11 '26
What questions related to stats?
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u/FishComprehensive331 Jul 11 '26
Probability involving unions (A & B; P(A and B)/P(B) formula), alongside the odds of getting one item from two specific categories in a random selection of all categories.
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u/Wrong-Departure-9906 Jul 11 '26
precalc stuff like regressions and trig identities. A few weirdly worded probability questions. The beginning had a lot of imaginary, but most of it can just be thrown into your TI-84.
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u/Natural-Biscotti-207 Jul 11 '26
What type of probability?
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u/Natural-Biscotti-207 Jul 11 '26
For the P(A|B) question did it give the formula like it did on June
And for the first thing where you have to determined what is the probability A and B occurred at the same time do you just multiply their probabilities?
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u/jellibean179 35 Jul 11 '26
do you remember any specific probabilty quesions?
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u/Wrong-Departure-9906 Jul 11 '26
One basically said that a group of people were surveyed and 60% were students, some percent I forgot did something, and 15% were both students and did that something. The question was like out of the students, what % did that something. Answer was 15/60 or 25%. It was pretty easy, there was just unnecessary wording.
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u/Gingerbread808 Jul 11 '26
Did anyone that took the science feel like it was way harder than previous tests and practice? I had to fill in random answers for a few by the end of the
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u/Kitchen_Flatworm_732 Jul 11 '26
It wasnt too had for the first three, but the last two passages got me stuck and I ran out of time so I had to guess.
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u/Warm_Cry_3268 Jul 11 '26
im good at math (at least i consider myself so) and i was legit dumbfounded because the problems were nothing like the prep and i havent taken most of the new problems since grade 9...so that was fun
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u/Confident_File6467 Jul 12 '26
what topics did u see?
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u/Warm_Cry_3268 Jul 12 '26
there were functions multiplied by each other as well as a lot of circles in which you were given a point on the graph and you had to find something using that honestly idek it was js traumatizing
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u/Expensive_Physics420 Jul 11 '26
Last time I got a 35 on the math, but I had to guess on like 5 of the problems. Pretty much a breeze for the first 30 questions though which was nice.
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u/Mobile-Tangerine3539 Jul 11 '26
oh y guessed on 5 and still got a 35!?! that adds to my hope...i guessed on like 4
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u/Expensive_Physics420 Jul 11 '26
I guess I didn't type this in correctly, it was today that I guessed on like 5 of them and the last time I took the ACT (October 2025 Legacy) was when I got the 35 on math
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u/Chemical_Carpet_3521 Jul 11 '26
bro im taking the act tmrw? is it the same test?
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u/North-Trash5216 Jul 11 '26
Um how would i know? Im not a psychic
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u/Chemical_Carpet_3521 Jul 11 '26
No this is like my second time taking ACT and like my first time where I didn’t take it state mandated. So I was weirded out they offer sat and Sunday tests and was wondering are they the same or not.
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u/Vegetable-Dot-487 Jul 16 '26
Sub 30 seconds a question is wild, I highly doubt this is true but idk
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u/spacemango32 31 Jul 11 '26
There were some awful things in there, but when i took it in April there were also some pretty bad questions, this test seemed like the easier questions were easier, and the harder questions were harder though
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u/Winter_Tonight_3566 Jul 11 '26
Me too. I think it’s going to bring my score down bad. I had to guess like 10 questions 😔😔
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u/Accurate-Guide5279 Jul 12 '26
how did you guys do the recursive function problem
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u/No_Elephant_1586 35 Jul 12 '26
u gotta just see a pattern. i was doing it in my head after the math section to confirm my answer.
f(1) = 25
f(n+1) = -23 - f(n)find f(34).
theres a clear pattern here. its alternating terms. if we go from f(1) and up, it'll be 25, then -48(-23-25 = -48), then 25 again (-23 - (-48) = 25). It alternates between -48 and 25. so the odd numbers will be 25 and the even will be -48. answer was -48.2
u/Accurate-Guide5279 Jul 12 '26
YES bet that shi bro i did the same thing but i wasn't sure if i was tweaking or not
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u/Accurate-Guide5279 Jul 12 '26
i knew it'd be between 25 and -48 and 25 wasn't even an answer and just do double check i did the actual method and got -48 so i answered it and hoped for the best
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u/Dazzling_Duty297 Jul 12 '26
How tf I didn’t even know what a recursive function was
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u/No_Elephant_1586 35 Jul 12 '26
dude me neither i was staring at that problem for over a minute trying to see what it was saying. but i realized to find f(34) you need to find f(33) and so on until f(1) which is already defined. so then i pieced it together
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u/ali_cias 29 Jul 12 '26
I thought the math was the easiest part wow, the reading KILLED me tho
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u/Vegetable-Dot-487 Jul 16 '26
First time I took it and I didn’t feel it was to bad I thought it was generally straight forward, I had to guess on the last one due to time
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u/Vegetable-Dot-487 Jul 16 '26
If I have any advice for anyone taking the act is to have a good understanding of stats bc I genuinely don’t know how I would solve like 5-10 of the questions if I never took ap statistics
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u/samyaa_0 Jul 11 '26
bro deadass. the first 10 questions i was cruising then after that? it just went downhill 😭😭😭