ACT is curved?!

Rocket_Surgery
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:44:40 +0000

If you get all of the questions correct, the curve is irrelevant.

Seriously, forget the curve.

Questoin: What’s the best way to do better on a non-curved test?

Answer: Get more questions correct.

Question: What’s the best way to do better on a curved test?

Answer: Get more questions correct.

If you’re adamant about somehow using the curve to your advantage, you might want to look into various conspiracy theories floating around the internet which speculate that the company that administers the ACT rigs the tests so that those administered in the Fall are harder, causing people to spend money to retake the test in the Spring. I’ll admit that I haven’t looked into this, but common sense says that if this were the case people would catch on to the discrepancy between the score distributions from different test dates. I doubt that there’s any real basis for such theories.