how do online practice tests correspond to actual score??

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<p>My son is going to be taking the ACT for the 1st time. I do NOT understand the scoring at ALL. Just wondering if he’s going to do okay or bomb it. Out of 214 questions - he got 178 right. Is that good? bad? awful? He got 36/40 on the Science section so that seemed good to me - but how might that correspond to an actual score if he did similarly on the real test.</p>

<p>Any help or explanations appreciated.</p>

<p>Ruth</p>

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<p>i could probably help you figure it out if you posted how many he missed in the other sections</p>

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<p>He got:</p>

<p>Reading 33/40
Math 48/59
Science 36/40
English 61/75</p>

<p>Thanks for any help in understanding this. This was the practice test on the ACT site.</p>

<p>Ruth</p>

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<p>With scores like that he is definitely not “bombing” the test. </p>

<p>Of course, your definition of bomb may be different than someone else’s. </p>

<p>Based on the scoring chart in the real ACT book, practice test 1:</p>

<p>Reading 33/40 = 30
Math 48/59 = 28
Science 36/40 = 30
English 61/75 = 25</p>

<p>Of course that doesn’t correlate exactly because it is a different test from the one he took, but it should be fairly accurate to give you an idea of how he’s doing. You might want to have him take a test out of that book and grade it using the included chart to get a really precise practice score.</p>

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<p>You may also want to look at this page, which gives you percentile rankings for ACT subsection scores:</p>

<p><a href=“ACT Test Scores | ACT Scoring | ACT”>ACT Test Scores | ACT Scoring | ACT;

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<p>that would be a composite of 28</p>