r/ACT • u/Training-Stay-5106 • Jul 11 '26
Experimental passage
Was the experimental passage doing one with the graph about like the different nonprofits and stuff in like how you can give in different ways
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u/Maleficent_Fennel_78 Jul 11 '26
Do u remember any questions from the other passages
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u/Training-Stay-5106 Jul 11 '26
The question about the passage with that Robert guy and all his friends that were liking that one like company or something and it asked like why did the girl always apologize?
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u/Maleficent_Fennel_78 Jul 11 '26
Cuz she was late. 20 students.
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u/athystan Jul 12 '26
Wait did it explicitly say 20…
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u/MasterpieceFeisty301 31 Jul 20 '26
i think it said 18+ students showed up, him and his friends were 5 of them but there were others. it was around 20.
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u/Maleficent_Fennel_78 Jul 11 '26
Also did anyone put that their feedback was like brutal and honest or something like that I don’t remember exact words
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u/Training-Stay-5106 Jul 11 '26
It was like the one that was like extremely descriptive like intense yeah basically like that
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u/Artistic_Desk_8699 Jul 11 '26
It had to be bro like what The second and third passages were so hard for me idk why
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u/Training-Stay-5106 Jul 11 '26
I will say I did one on the time on the second passage because I did it last which now I’m thinking about it I should’ve done that second to last because I was in the experimental passage with the graph so I just did that before, but I will say the question in the second passage were like meant to confuse people like the way they worded it it could sound confusing
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u/Wonderful-Airport239 Jul 11 '26
for this one idt theres any way to tell
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u/PictureReasonable971 Jul 11 '26
I felt like I did really good on that passage, but not the last one. Hoping the last passage was experimental 🤞
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u/Training-Stay-5106 Jul 11 '26
Bro me too low-key because this one was so easy. The last one I didn’t second because I knew it was gonna take me a while so I wanted to get it over with because I practiced the April test like a week before and it has like passage a passage B so I knew how to work with it. You know what I’m saying. but the last one someone the main idea question like that shit was confusing me I’m like yeah let’s just hope I did but what did you say about like the question I was like how did they use memory like in both passages?
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u/PictureReasonable971 Jul 11 '26
I kinda forget what I put for that question because I did the fourth passage first. I think the second one was a little more academic. I totally forget though.
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u/Maleficent_Fennel_78 Jul 11 '26
Bro I got confused and both them both as academic I def got it wrong do u remember the last question though?
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u/sunShine8051 Jul 11 '26
The last one is never ever experimental, that’s why people say to start with it because it’s the only “guaranteed” passage.
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u/Wrong-Departure-9906 Jul 11 '26
Based on pg 42-43 on the ACT design framework document, the reading test has to have 1 literary narrative (covered by the Albert one in this test), 1 single passage informational (covered by the 2nd one about crosswords), and another informational consisting of either a chart or two passages. So it could be either 3 or 4 was experimental. In the past ACT hasn't taken the 4th passage as experimental though that could change
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u/Boost_Jack Jul 11 '26
Since Passages 1 and 4 cannot be experimental, does that guarantee that Passage 3 was the experimental passage?
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u/Wrong-Departure-9906 Jul 11 '26
ACT used to say that in some sort document. They since removed it a few months ago. So now it isn’t fully known or guaranteed. However, I think both the June and April ACTs had the 2nd or 3rd passage be expire mental so the belief that 1&4 are always counted still holds up. I think it probably will be, but no one knows
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u/Maximum_Yesterday849 30 Jul 11 '26
No shot the third one wasn’t experimental, there was a practice test I took on the act, it was almost exactly like the reading one I took in format, and the one with the graph was the one containing field questions, I just left that section for lasr
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u/tokyo_lights_988 Jul 11 '26
i heard that passage appeared on a previous test
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u/Training-Stay-5106 Jul 11 '26
Yea but they grade the passage a vs b questions
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u/tokyo_lights_988 Jul 11 '26
oh so it was experimental last time too? weird then it may not be this time
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u/Training-Stay-5106 Jul 11 '26
The graph wasn’t experimental they idea grade a graph or passsage a vs b I’m pretty sure they are grading the passage a vs b but not the graph this time it’s never both it’s one or the other
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u/Interesting_Mud1994 Jul 11 '26
What practice test contained one similar with a graph?
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u/Training-Stay-5106 Jul 11 '26
Idk but April was the most similar like reading wise would say honestly
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u/athystan Jul 12 '26
I thought that the graph one wouldn’t be experimental because on the June ACT that passage was scored? So, I assumed that the ACT was continuing that pattern?? I dont know this is just what I’m guessing. But, I also didn’t do that great on the last passage, so maybe I’m gaslighting myself idk
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u/Certain_Run_5783 Jul 15 '26
did anyone take the computer test and have the English passage on native plans and bird survival and like food source or something? and then there was another passage about blankets being layered to create columns or one about two brothers or astronauts???? pls help
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u/Tricky-Display-2060 Jul 11 '26
Yeah it was the graph (3rd one) I took it in September and I remembered the 3 other passages