Anyone have experience with handscoring?

[Mrs.Ferguson]

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To be honest, I don’t think they change your score anyhow. It must be a pain in the butt to change the score and mail out reports again. How do you know if they’re lying? You don’t.

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.

@PatrickK

The whole reason I believe they are wrong is because I received a 22 on the ACT. I had it handscored, and it wasn’t changed.

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

I was about 95% sure on all the questions I answered.

Oh, well, if you were sure, I guess that changes everything.

On the science section, I finished with 15 minutes left and almost double checked all my answers. I end up getting my score back wit ha 20 on the Science, my worst section of all. On the flip side, a friend of mine who said he guessed on them all got a 33.

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.

Onside of that, on a previous test, the SAME situation happened with two of my friends. Now either it is a major coincidence, or ACT is reporting false scores.

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

<p>If ACT is reporting false scores, then it’s a HUGE coincidence that about two million kids a year seem to think their scores are correct, that every college in the country (but one) seems to have reason to believe that ACT scores predict college success, and that ACT scores are highly correlated with high school coursework, GPA, SAT scores, and other measures of academic achievement. ACT must have a very sophisticated way of making up test scores that are so accurate (on average), that they’re as good as the real thing!

Maybe there is another person with the same name as me in the state of Colorado, and somehow we got mixed up, who knows!

ACT must have found that other kid, peeled the barcode ID labels off your answer folders, and swapped them! </p>

<p>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.</p>