ACT写作部分概述

好吧，所以您可能在这里，因为您已经注册了可选的ACT写作测试，或者您正在考虑。因此，在本集中，我们将要做的就是谈论您需要知道的基本信息。我们将谈论它是可选的事实，然后我们将谈论提示，您期望看到什么，您将需要花多少时间来处理这些事情，然后最终如何实际论文将被评分。
So we talked about the fact that the ACT writing test is optional. In fact at this point though, about 18 percent of colleges and universities require students to take the test for admissions. Another 21 percent recommend it. So in order to kind of figure out whether or not you really want to be taking this test, a good starting place is the ACT website. So if you go to ACT.org and click 'The test' here on the opening screen and then take a look over here, click 'Writing test options' and you'll see here in the middle, 'Search writing test requirements by college'. So here's where you can go and you can click and enter the name of your college that you're applying to to see if you need to take it or if the college requires or recommends it. So for instance let's try University of Illinois, alright so when we type it in we click 'Find', you'll see it list all of the university of Illinois colleges. The flagship is that University of Illinois have a ban of champagne and you can see starting in 2008, they require all students applying for admissions to take the writing portion of the test. The two satellite campuses; one in Chicago and one in Springfield both recommend it. So you can kind of see, if you're a student that's applying to one of these three campuses, you probably should take the writing test. And in fact I think an essay is going to reveal more about you than bubbles that you fill in an ACT could any day. So it's always nice to have that added kind of [IB] to your personality that the essay is going to provide.
因此，我们要看的第一件事可能是您想知道参加ACT写作测试的问题。关于我们要谈论的提示的四件事，首先是该提示直接与高中生有关。因此，您将获得可能处理的某种问题。过去出现的一些事情是：学校的手机，自助餐厅提供的服务，如果高中延长了四年。因此，这将是您有个人经验的事情。这是第一件事。不要对您要看到的东西感到紧张，您以前已经看到了。
您需要了解的下一件事是，它将需要您采取特定职位。因此，它将给您这个问题，这个问题，并且会说，决定或决定。因此，您必须决定自己对此的信念。对于ACT的写作提示，这不是您跨越围栏的时候，因此您想确保避免使用模棱两可的语言，有时也许是这样。您确实必须明确选择此问题的一面。
Alright the prompts also are going to provide you with two distinct perspectives on the issue. So if you get an issue and you don't really know much about it, make sure you read the prompt closely because it's going to give you some information. Even if you don't agree with the two perspectives provided, you're going to want to use those and reference them in your counter argument which we are going to talk about in another episode.
Another nice option of the ACT prompt is that it presents the option for you to develop your own viewpoint. This is really nice because if you don't agree with one of the two sides presented in the actual prompt, this gives you a chance to really voice your opinion and kind of get your personality out there. However what you want to be careful of is if you develop your own viewpoint, this is not a ticket for you to straddle the fence. Your viewpoint can't be sometimes I believe the first thing they said and then sometimes I believed the second thing they said. You've really got to come up with an individualized point of view for this. So we are going to talk in another episode a little bit more about how to attack this prompt but for now you know the basics of what to expect.
Alright the next thing you need to know about the ACT writing is that you're going to have a limited amount of time and this is probably the number one thing that students get nervous about. You only have 30 minutes from start to finish to get done with this essay. So what I've come up with is a little kind of recommended guide about how much time you want to spend on different parts of the writing process, because even though you only have 30 minutes, you don't want to just breeze through and just kind of throw out everything that's on your mind. We're going talk in the episode about the rubric, about what the things the graders are going to be looking for but what you want to make sure you do is go through these steps so that you get everything there.
因此，我的建议是，在进行测试时，您花了大约一两分钟的时间阅读并剖析提示。然后继续前进，花三到五分钟的头脑风暴，以便您现在就知道他们要你要什么，集思广益，把他们带出去，花20分钟，这是一个很好的大块，三分之二的时间写了实际的三分之二散文。然后，我无法强调实际花三到五分钟的时间来校对您的论文是多么重要。尝试大声朗读它，您可以悄悄地做些事情来浏览它，请确保您遇到了您在写作时可能错过的那些小拼写或标点符号错误。
因此，可能学生询问该行为写作部分的第一问题是，我将如何得分？因此，现在我们将介绍有关如何得分的基本概述。在另一集中，我们会更深入一些。因此，您需要知道的第一件事是评分是整体的，这实际上意味着看着您的论文或将其视为整个作品的得分手。因此，您不会获得五分介绍的五分，然后再获得十分来获得扎实的论文陈述，而语法则输了三分。他们将在一个大作品中看所有这些，然后说。这篇文章有四个或希望有六个。因此，将我们带到了下一个点，它是整体的，您可以在一个和六个，六个，好的。您将有两个分数查看您的论文，他们每个人都会给它一个得分。如果您的两个原始分数差异超过一个点，则可能有三分之一。 So for instance if one score gives you a four, another gives a six, a third score will come in and intervene to kind of mediate that situation. So ultimately you can earn between a two and a 12 on the ACT.
许多学生还想知道：“当大学真正得到它时，这会是什么样。”因此，让我们看一下大学将要看到的分数的实际图表。找到了这个网站，该网站为加利福尼亚当地的学区带来了我们的经历。因此，如果我们在这里看一看，那么在Norm中的ACT分数实际上是大学何时将分数报告给他们的图表。因此，您要问的是您的分数，这是一个复杂的情况。因为写作测试是可选的，并不是每个人都显然将包括分数。当您参加写作测试时，这就是大学将要看到的。您将要看到的第一件事是您的英语得分位于顶部，这只是您在英语部分上获得的分数，而不是考虑写作。因此，您将分数独立于写作。然后，如果您在这里看到明星的位置，您将看到一个英语/写作分数，以及结合您获得的英语分数的复合分数，然后在这里又一次地告诉您的写作分数 that the range is between a two and a 12. So this person got a ten which is really a solid score on that, the ten combined with the 24 that they got on the ACT English section, composites out to a 25 for the writing but you'll see it's listed differently since some colleges will consider it and some probably won't. The other nice thing about our scoring guide with that writing is that you're also going to also get some comment codes so this person got 24, 34 and 65 and that test score will come back with some comments that talks about why your essay got the score that it did and then if you go ahead and decide to take the test again, that's really nice feedback for you to do a revision to the essay or to be better prepared for the next essay that you right.
In this episode we talked about the bottom line basics you need to know about the writing portion of the ACT. We talked about the fact that it's optional and we talked about the fact that about 50 percent of colleges are either recommending or requiring it. We talked about the prompt, what you can expect to see and how you need to attack it. We talked about how much time you're going to have and then finally we talked about how you are going to be scored and then what colleges are going to see when they get your scoring report. In other episodes we are going to delve more deeply into these things so that you have a more solid idea about how to attack the ACT writing portion.