I just checked my sons account. He is a rising Junior. They still have his scores from 7th grade! I would have thought they would have deleted them…
Might be a stupid question but, does the test release form include justification for your essay grade?
Also, I’m new here and was wondering what all this “predict my scores” business is. I’ve noticed that you all who ask for other to predict your scores seem to already know EXACTLY how many questions you got wrong on each section. I personally find it hard to believe that you know how many you got wrong on each section. So why waste your time believing you got a score based off of numbers that could be totally off?
@MichiganGeorgia I believe that scores remain on accounts for at least 5 years. They are most likely archived after that. I’m not sure if they are ever permanently deleted.
I found it interesting because my older son took the SAT in 7th grade and college board deleted them when he started high school.
@imme267 Online no justification for you essay score is given, but on the student report one is given. It’s very generic thoughh, like mine says “Your essay was well organized” and “Your essay showed recognition of the complexity of the issue”.
For people that are very good at the ACT, it is not very difficult to predict how many they missed.
College Board automatically annually deletes all scores taken prior to HS unless you tell them by June of that year (e.g. in your example, June of the year he was in 7th grade) that you do not want them deleted.
Do you guys think this could be a possible curve?
Math
-0/1= 36
-2=35
Science
-0/1=36
-2=35
@divsnimmagadda The science curve, to my knowledge, has never been that generous, so I doubt that will happen. That math curve however is quite likely to happen.
The science curve was -1 36 in April
Its very hard to predict the curve because it is all very subjective. As a poster pointed out, this ACT had a couple of very hard Math questions, one that was harder than any I have ever seen. But that was just one question. So if you are aiming for a perfect score and spent a lot of time on that question then you may have screwed yourself over. But overall the section might not be rated as extremely difficult if it was just one or two really hard questions. The English section on this ACT also had 1 or 2 very hard questions, but that does not mean that as a whole the English was really hard. Most people seem to think that this Reading was hard but I actually thought that it was fairly easy by ACT standards. So it’s very hard to predict how the curve will end up.
How does ACT make the curve then? Is if just a bell distribution?
Oh boy. I know more about how the process works for the SAT but it is similar for both tests and essentially the curve accounts for the slight difference in difficulty that happens across tests. But it is just hard to predict how that plays out since difficulty is really subjective!
Is there a month where ACT scores are typically better?
I heard somewhere that all ACT curves are predetermined.
The scales probably are predetermined considering many of the tests are recycled.
Science had 2 questions where you actually had to know science, and they weren’t extremely basic concepts imo, so hopefully -1 Science will be 36. In “The Real ACT” book most of the practice tests are -1 Science 34. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.
Has anyone’s status been changed to tested yet?
I’ll try to be as vague as I possibly can, reasonsat; was the very difficult math question the one with the teacher?
@Referendumb We are not allowed to discuss specific ACT topics and questions.
I will try to be as vague in my response. The answer is not no. 