<p>kryptonsa26, there were 1000 people in my school taking it in April (state testing,) so wayyyyy more than 500 people take it</p>
<p>Our state uses ACT as mandatory state testing. That's a lot of kids taking a test ... and a lot of kids taking it who don't WANT to be taking it. I am not the least bit surprised by a 3. I proctored another section of our state testing, and there were quite a few kids who put their heads down & slept. You can <em>make</em> a kid take a test in order to graduate, but you can't make him actually do anything besides fill in the info bubbles (which they get several class sessions to do, by the way).</p>
<p>A kid from my district is one of the 36s. He took the test at the end of his sophomore year. Our district has never seen a 36, I don't think ... so it's a pretty big deal for him. He's a great kid.</p>
<p>Since you can't take both tests on the same date, one could assume that taking one first primes you for the other one. When comparing scores, does it make any difference which one you take first?</p>
<p>And most of those people will probably be going to IVY League too...:)</p>
<p>I know 2 people that received a perfect score-and one did the test without a calculator!</p>
<p>Since the ACT allows score choice, then maybe an underground competition for lowest composite should emerge. . .</p>
<p>i think i could get a 3 composite. </p>
<p>difficulty </p>
<p>English: easy .. so many obvious dummy answers (1)
Math: easy .. get the right answer and pick a wrong one (1)<br>
Science: medium .. i would probably guess (15)<br>
Reading: pretty easy .. (10) </p>
<p>so a composite of 7. someone should try this with a practice test.</p>
<p>yay for a 36!! say, wats rarer: a 36 or a 2400?</p>
<p>wow i'm surprised at how low the average was
i was expecting at least somewhere around 25ish</p>
<p>1421941 ACT
1518176 SAT</p>
<p>6% more people take SAT than ACT.</p>
<p>Krypton probably lives in the Western part of the country.</p>
<p>I read this in the news:</p>
<p>Akron</a> Ohio News - Local teens take top scores on ACT</p>
<p>Local teens take top scores on ACT</p>
<p>so-what does a 34 mean in percentiles:-where in the 99% is it?</p>
<p>LOL at COMPOSITE SCORE 3. ONLY ONE IN THE NATION BUDDY.</p>
<p>^^^34 = 99.54%</p>
<p>^^^thanks sooo much</p>
<p>^for the 3 as a composite... i think he bubbled in 2 blanks, and then fell asleep during the rest of the test</p>
<p>I think I may take the ACT under an anonymous name just to get a 3. Bragging rights? Now to figure out how to do this...</p>
<p>Getting a 3 (or even just a 1) is very easy. Simply don’t answer anything (or fill in two bubbles for each question), there’s nothing interesting about getting a 3. I would like to also kind of (to photograph and put online for all your entertainment - since no one else did it) to get a 1, but it’s not a hard task.</p>
<p>The kid next to me in Feb Christmas tree’d the entire Science section. I heard somebody furiously bubbling in and two minutes later, he was snoring.</p>
<p>Actually… most of you are wrong. To get a three, you can’t “not answer” most of the questions. If you write your name and nothing else on the test, you are almost guaranteed an 11 without further work. A 3 means they missed a significantly larger number of questions than they got correct. A 1 is very difficult… especially composite, because one 3 and you are already out of contention for it. And if a 3 was the country’s lowest score last year… that would be quite a feat. Props to whomever wants to go for it.</p>