Varying scores

mo24
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:57:30 +0000

I’m curious how much fatigue affects the test results. Based on former real ACT tests alone, (IE: the ones in the Real act prep, online courses on ACT website, and the free online ACT test)…

I took one of the tests (the free online one) split up before i’d ever laid eyes on an ACT prep book. Time limits remained the same, but I split the individual subjects up about 5-6 hours apart over the course of a couple days).

After two months of prepping/studying, I took three more tests from the Real Act PREP book. I took these all in one sitting though, simulating the real test. The english and math scores, the first two parts of the test, were as expected. Reading and Science however were much lower than even my initial test.

On the split up test, the first one I took, I finished the reading section with 8 mins to spare and Science with 4 mins to spare. Yet on the tests done all in one sitting, even after so much prepping, both of the two tests were just barely finished in time in all cases with less than a min remaining. In two of the tests, i’d resorted to guessing in order to finish on time - as much as 5 questions during the Reading section of one test.

Has anyone else who did one test split up then another all at once noticed this? Were your scores much worse when you did it all at once? Just something i’m wondering about.