ACT easier than SAT?

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<p>Is this true? Or is everyone lying to me?</p>

2

<p>It depends on you. If you are good at taking fast paced tests, it is for you. The questions are more direct than the SAT. However, in the SAT I feel much less rushed.</p>

3

<p>I like the sat better</p>

4

<p>My counselor told me that people tend to do better on the ACT than the SAT. I hope this is true, because I didn’t do so well on the SAT.</p>

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What does that mean? There’s a concordance table issued by the Collegeboard and ACT Inc. that matches up scores between the two exams by percentile. So regardless if you get a bigger number on your ACT, it doesn’t matter. It’s only the percentile that matters. Even if you got a 35 which is a large number relative to 36, and it matched with 90% percentile on the SAT, it would be valued equally to around a 1900 on the SAT.</p>

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<p>I find the act easier because there are no hellacious vocab questions, unlike the SAT, and my best ACT section is science which isn’t even covered by the SAT. The act kind of plays toward my strengths but preference varies for everyone. Also many more people struggle with the time constraints of the ACT and I often had to rush.</p>

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<p>Umm… a 35 is like a 2340, not a 1900… just sayin</p>

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<p>Comparing ACT and SAT scores are not easy. Different school may adopt a different conversion chart. Some would exclude certain section(s) in the comparison as the 2 tests are not very comparable. Anyway, statistics from students taking both showed some do better in one test or the other while most would perform more or less the same in both (in terms of percentile). Most school counselors would suggest students to try both tests and you will never know if you would do better in ACT or SAT1 without trying it at least on a few practice tests.
By the way ACT 33 is at the 99% already.</p>

9

<p>I feel ACT science is very unpredictable, otherwise it would make this test very solid. Also going pass 30 is not easy. You go down in one test, you go up in another, average remains the same.</p>

10

<p>I don’t know if i would say ‘easier’, but ‘different’. The problems are more straight-forward which worked better for my child. You have to work a lot faster though
which can cause careless mistakes or just running out of time. So… practice, practice, practice!</p>