<p>one person made a 3. lmao.</p>
<p>haha, i doubt that person actually tried; they could have guessed and scored higher.</p>
<p>if u random guess, you have better chances of getting a 21.</p>
<p>yeah.. i was joking around one day and put C as my answer to everything on a CD-ROM practice test..... i got a 12 on that... and that's with all my answers as C.... to not get at least that baffles me, really.. a 3, wow, that's a wee bit disappointing</p>
<p>How the heck do you get a composite of 3 on the ACT. If you filled in one answer for the entire test, basic probability says you would recieve a 9. Epic guessing fail.</p>
<p>actually a 3 is a pretty decent score considering you have to be deliberately answering the questions wrong. although it is easier to choose a wrong answer than the correct one...</p>
<p>a 3 is still pretty bad... i guess that person just doesn't care.. unfortunate</p>
<p>i thought i was one of the 428, but apparently the report doesn't include scores from this year (february).</p>
<p>The report includes scores for members of high school class of 2008, whenever they took the test. Anyone still in high school is not shown in this report.</p>
<p>maybe the person who got a 3 was really really smart....he knew all the right answers and avoided all of them to get the lowest score possible -_- ...</p>
<p>could you get a 3 if you just left the entire test blank? i am guessing there are kids that fall asleep during the test, but maybe one was out for the entire test</p>
<p>if you put your name down and that's it, that's a 1... so maybe he answered a few questions right giving him a 9 on english and then he fell asleep (9+1+1+1 = 12.... 12/4 = 3).. maybe</p>
<p>Maybe the person with the 3 was going through a lot. Maybe the person with the 3's dog just died and had just gotten out of plane wreckage when a test was thrown at him. Maybe he couldn't even remember his name. Maybe he's on CC and youre making him feel very bad :(.</p>
<p>But in all seriousness because with scores under the average could be very young or mentally challenged.</p>
<p>it's possible</p>
<p>MilwDad's comments are correct. Neither test is easier or more difficult than the other. Some students score better on the ACT, some score better on the SAT, but the score distributions for both are classic bell curves and virtually all colleges do not express a preference for either test.</p>
<p><---missed a 36 by one question -___-</p>
<p>^^ i missed it by 2 questions... oh well... i think we'll still be ok</p>
<p>If I read page 9 right, there's been a general decline in the number of kids taking the ACT. Curious.</p>
<p>i think its harder to get a 0 than a 36 (course this is filling in all bubbles)
my physics teacher said that on any test if u get a 0 and u fill in all bubbles then u get a 100% on it</p>
<p>^^^ It's much harder to get a 36 than to get a 1.</p>
<p>To get a 36, you have to answer every question (minus one or two due to the curve) correctly. You would have a 25% (R,E,S) or 20% (M) chance per question of picking the correct answer by guessing randomly. The probabilities of randomly guessing to a 36 on each section are bound to be very, very tiny.</p>
<p>To get a 1, you have to answer each question incorrectly. By randomly guessing, you have a 75% (R,E,S) or 80% (M) chance of answering each question incorrectly. While also pretty small, the probability of guessing your way to a 1 is much larger.</p>
<p>Therefore, a 36 is way greater than a 1. Even though 1s are much rarer.</p>
<p>EDIT: The probability of getting a 36 on ACT English by guessing is .25^75 = 7.01 x 10^-46.
Math: 1.15 x 10^-42</p>
<p>The probability of a 1 on English by guessing is 3.2 x 10^-8.
Math: 1.53 x 10^-6.</p>