@zxcvbnm1216 Did the science section have fewer questions on it? If so, missing two may count for more of a deduction from the top score??? (That’s a question.)
I know someone who got
C28: E25, M28, R24, S34.
He could argue that something is “wrong” with the E and R. Or that the subscores are “way out of whack.”
But the reality is he just sucks in E and R. And he happens to like Sci so much that he didn’t make any careless Sci mistakes.
How do they curve things? Like, what does it mean in terms of peoples’ scores for each section?
@mmk2015 What are you talking about? People did not say how many they got wrong but people are reporting that they got 35,34,33,31,30,29,28. It is obvious to calculate that each one means at least one question wrong. Someone who gets a 35 needs at least one wrong and another person who got a 34 obviously needed at least two wrong (or else they would have got a 35). Its common sense that I would have at least got 7 wrong to have got a 28
@redpoodles The act cannot change the number of questions on a test. Every science test has exactly 40 questions
@mmk2015 On reddit, you can see people discussing the answers to the science questions and based on reading, you can estimate how many you got wrong as those are the people reporting 35 and 36 on the science section
People in Downstate New York get tests yet? At least switch to tested?
Does it mean anything that on the prior 3 tests my kids took they each got scores their first day? Is there something weird with this one or her test?
My D still says registered. Starting to worry because I need to know whether she is taking October and she is considering EDing
Did anyone here who took the ACT with writing receive their scores too?
I have read several posts about rescoring…How likely was the scoring wrong? I assumed the scoring was done by machine.
@maajick @Hellofagal - We are in Georgia this was the third time he took the ACT he has had a 32C the last 2 times. He has never studied for the science part. The first time he got 30 in science, last time a 32 and this time a 31. So at least in his case the science section has always been reasonably consistent. Maybe your D’s misbubbled?
I’m so freaking out right now… I didn’t have enough time for reading so I just did the science section really quickly to get back. I thought I did well because the section was easy… But now these posts about low science scores are scaring the heck out of me
My son’s scores (minus writing) are posted on his account. It’s earlier than we expected them to be posted, but he was happy with his scores and doesn’t plan on taking it again! 8-|
How is it that for one of my schools (I already submitted the application) know my scores from Sept. and I don’t?
C 33
E 35
M 31
R 31
S 35
I thought I was going to get at most a 32 on science but I got a 35. I don’t really think there was anything wrong with the section, the scale was just harsh.
@camelot39 Did you take the writing test too?
@sakibdurlob yea but I don’t think those scores come out until after Oct 1
If you look back into past discussion about the ACT here on CC and elsewhere, most test takers report that they do least well on the science section. Maybe because there are fewer questions to begin with, the errors are more costly.
@zxcvbnm1216 I don’t mean the ACT changed the number of questions on a section of the test–I mean that the sections do not have the same number of questions, so missing one on one section does not score the same as missing one on another section. (Or two, or three.). It seems like the science questions count for more toward the science score than the questions on another section count toward its score.
I’ve heard that one of the forms administered was the hardest ACT yet. Can anybody confirm this?
^^^^^ ugh. I sure hope my daughter did not get that one.