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About the ACT Created by Diane Fettrow

About the ACT Created by Diane Fettrow. The ACT The ACT is a college-entrance test that covers four major subject areas in a multiple choice format: • English • Mathematics • Reading • Science Reasoning

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About the ACT Created by Diane Fettrow

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  1. About the ACT Created by Diane Fettrow

  2. The ACT The ACT is a college-entrance test that covers four major subject areas in a multiple choice format: • English • Mathematics • Reading • Science Reasoning The ACT also has an optional writing test that requires students to take a position and write an essay in 30 minutes.

  3. About the ACT Subject Tests

  4. How is the ACT scored? • First a student receives four raw scores, one for each Subject Test in addition to raw subscores for subsections. For instance, the two sections of the English test are the Usage/Mechanics section and the Rhetorical Skills. Thus there are subscores for these two sections. • The raw scores are converted into four scaled scores for the subject tests and scaled subscores for the subsections. • Colleges will care primarily about the scaled scores for Subject Tests.

  5. • The scaled subscores come in handy if the student plans to prepare to take the test again and can focus his/her study. • The four scaled scores are averaged, producing the Composite Score. • Finally, every single score is assigned a corresponding percentile ranking, indicating how the student fared in comparison to other test takers. • A percentile score of 75 means that 74% of test takers scored worse and 25% scored better.

  6. How is the ACT scored? To compute the raw scores of a Subject Test, count up the number of questions that were answered correctly. For each correct answer a student earns one point. There are no point deductions for wrong answers.

  7. The Composite Score The Composite Score is the average of the scaled scores For the four Subject Tests. If a student got 28 on the English Test, 26 on the Math, 32 on the Reading, and 30 on the Science Reasoning, the Composite Score would be 29. 28 + 26 + 32 + 30 = 116 = 29 4 4

  8. Correspondence of Composite Score, Percentile Rank & Correct Answers

  9. Check on the ACT requirements for Florida universities on the SUS Matrix. For private colleges and for out-of-state colleges, go to the web site of the school.

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