Anyone have experience with handscoring?

[PatrickK]

<p>Mrs. Ferguson, I have seen you on these forums for awhile, and you have offered great advice, and I appreciate that. But your #9 post here is quite ridiculous. I don’t want to waste anymore time with this after I complete this post, but here we go.

Get real. A pain in the butt is when hundreds of thousands of students join a class-action lawsuit and sue a company with almost 50 years of reputable service into the ground for cheating its teenage customers. How do you know if they’re lying? How about you ORDER YOUR TEST and answer document from the April, June, or December test date, and score it yourself.

What teenager on this earth is going to file a lawsuit against ACT? Students can prove anything regardless to whether they were right or wrong.</p>

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Half the kids who took it did worse–what makes you so special?

A 22 is ridiculous. As the national average is 19, that also includes the some odd million students who take it that are on the verge of dropping out, which drops the average considerably. I’d say the average for a “normal” student is at least a 22, maybe even 23.</p>

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Since the science section is mainly about reasoning, based on this post I’d say a 20 is about right. Anyone who gets a 33 and says they guessed on them all is being modest. I’d be modest too if I were talking to my friend who couldn’t accept that he got a disappointing score. We’d all pity you, too, if only you’d quit insisting that you got screwed over.

I guess you’d have to understand the situation. This is a student is really doesn’t care. It isn’t just a coincidence…</p>

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Patrick. According to your posting history, you got the same score on two tests, the April national test and the April Colorado state test. You can order your national test questions, scoring key, and a copy of your answer document, and score it yourself. You can have your teachers go over the questions to confirm the correct answers. You can post the questions you think you were cheated on to this board and we’ll take a vote. You can write to ACT challenging any questions you think are incorrect or any of your correct answers that you think were not counted. Several times in the past, ACT has done mass rescoring based on questions that were thrown out. You could be a hero! If you can’t afford the Test Information Release, I’ll take up a collection here on the boards–I’m sure everyone would be interested in the results.

Both situations were completely different. On the national (8th) test, I was tired, halfway sick, and my head wasn’t clear. Onside of that, it was considered one of the “harder” tests. On the 26th one, I was prepared. Had plenty of sleep, and practice. As far as how the questions were and certainty,there was no question that the 26th ACT was easier.</p>

<p>On a last note, ACT has the responsibility to report the correct scores, and I am sure they do MOST of the time. However, if you see at least one wrong scoring report, what makes you think it won’t happen again? And having it handscored, they could easily just take the $25, pocket it, and send you a letter saying it was correct, regardless, and we (the person having the report re-scored) wouldn’t be able to do anything or know whether they scored it again or not. The fact of the matter is that ACT can really do whatever they want without any issues. Maybe my school got some wrong reports, who knows. One of my thoughts is that my school did get some wrong reports and I was one of the few people that got a wrong report that was horrible. I have some friends who received 25’s and 26’s, and I wouldn’t be suprised if they actually did better, but since they got a 25, or 26, they are happy, even if it is the wrong report. And as far as the coincidences go:

Wow, three people out of, like, everyone you know? Three self-important less-than-wunderkinder in one place? Impossible!

Well, here is the full story. Feb 24th ( I think ) was a national date. Several of my friends took the test. They get the scores back in a few weeks, and say, “Science was best section (meaning highest scoring section), yet I pretty much guessed on every question because I didn’t have time”. That made me wonder, but not too much. Next thing you know, it happens again. And then again, on the 26th, yet I have a 20 on science and a friend who guesses gets a 33. I have taken multiple practice ACTs, and I have received 30+ on most of them. Sorry to say it, but that isn’t a coincidence when you add all this up. There is no need to continue to bicker, so lets drop it here.</p>

<p>To the thread starter: this thread is just a longer version of the answer: “no, handscoring is not worth it IMO”.</p>