ACT Sections Against SAT Sections

Test Preparation
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<p>Do colleges look at ACT sections like the SAT sections? For example:</p>

<p>ACT Composite: 30
Reading: 34
Math: 31
English: 30
Science: 26</p>

<p>When people look at my ACT, is it equivalent to SATs in this way:</p>

<p>Reading = Critical Reading
Math = Math
English = Writing
Science</p>

<p>Then my equivalent SAT score would be like this, using score conversions:</p>

<p>Critical Reading = 760
Math = 690
Writing = 670
1450/2130</p>

<p>My normal ACT/SAT equivalent is a 1340/2050...but I was wondering if some schools may consider it that way. Science really brought me down, because the honors track at my school leaves Chemistry for senior year. Alot of the ACT Science section was Chemistry, and also some extremely simplified Physics which completely screwed me up, because I was taking Honors Physics at the time.</p>

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<p>No one has any idea?</p>

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<p>Actually, there are colleges which consider the math and English (not reading) section of the ACT as the more important sections and as the scores to compare to the SAT math and CR. In fact, at least two, Gtech and Rose Hulman use only the ACT math and English scores for admission (and ignore composite, science, and reading; yes, those two tech schools ignore the science section) and compare those two to the SAT math and CR scores. There are none I am aware of that use the ACT reading section to make a test equivalency with the SAT. Also, if you are relying on SAT/ACT equivalency tables that you find on the internet to determine your equivalent scores, be aware that most colleges that create equivalency tables for admissions create their own and they generally differ from what you find on-line; in other words, you are relying on inaccurate information.</p>