Is The ACT Science Based On Luck??

Jimbo92
Wed, 02 May 2012 18:02:16 +0000

I wouldn’t agree with that entirely. I personally am one of those people who have gotten a 36 in math every time I took the ACT and a 800 every time I took the SAT, so I can’t speak on that topic, but I can speak for Science. I got a 36 on the science section I took on the actual ACT (not some practice garbage) as a freshman yet I got a 30 on the April 14th one as a sophomore. It really does have to do with luck because as someone was saying before, 3 questions answered incorrect can bring you from a 36 to a 30. If one test is a bit more challenging than another, then you might not have enough time and say leave 3 questions to guess on, and if you get those all wrong then this brings you down to a 30. In both situations the tester knew 100% of the material up to where they got, but on one they had to guess on 3 due to the test being just a bit harder and thus taking that much more time. One main reason that I believe that this happens on reading and science and not english and math is because there are less questions leaving less ability to average out your time if you get stuck on a couple of problems and took a bit longer than you should have.