<p>there were 3 math questions I didn't know, one was with a topic I hadn't reviewed and I haven't used it in a while. This was my 1st time, and I think a 30-31.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what to do if your eraser smeared dark graphite marks across 3 of your questions that wouldn't come out? Can you have the ACT graded by hand? Should I try to contact the ACT before I get my scores back?</p>
<p>Hand-scoring service</p>
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<p>It seems like a LOT of people didn't finish reading, and neither did I and I'm surprised because I always finished with time left on my practice tests. The proctor was like, 5 min left, and I still had an entire passage left to go! Other than that, the rest of the test was good but I think I only improved 1 point, if not less....</p>
<p>I lot of people in my room didn't finnish, but I finnished with five minutes left. I think science killed me, I'll be happy with a 28 in science.</p>
<p>I like the ACT reading...if you get the general idea of it, you can answer the questions. On the SAT, you really have to know the gritty details, and passages on the SAT like to contradict certain points made and such...it's annoying.</p>
<p>This really makes me mad though because I think I might have had perfect scores on math and grammar and usually reading is my second best section after math and Im pretty sure that I got almost all of the questions right that I had time to answer. There will probably be a good reading curve but it still won't fully compensate for the low scores of people who are really good at reading but just didn't get to all of the questions. Basically scores are gonna favor anyone who was able to go fast enough and answer all the questions.</p>
<p>I thought it wasn't horrible today, but science was my worst. Math and English were once again easy. Reading was harder than the February test but not too bad. Then I came to science and for some reason I thought there was only 35 questions, and I was perfectly pased and then I remembered there was 40 so I had to rush. That kind of sucked but oh well. </p>
<p>With the question about seeing your scores online, you don't pay the $8 if your scores aren't up. You put in your name and social security number and then it tells you if your scores are ready, and if not you leave, but if they are then they ask you for your credit card number and that.</p>
<p>"Basically scores are gonna favor anyone who was able to go fast enough and answer all the questions."</p>
<p>Uh...yeah? To get questions right and to go quickly makes a good score</p>
<p>Just getting questions correct doesn't mean anything, nor does just go really fast.</p>
<p>Science could very well bring me down a point. I was rushing the last 5 science questions, so I couldn't give it my full focus for those last five. I was surprised at how easy math was, especially because it's my weakest subject. Reading was really easy, and the high scores will go to those who could finnish. English was pretty easy as well.</p>
<p>yeah, but there should be enough time for fairly slow readers to read every passage and answer all of the questions and there just wasn't. If there had been enough time, the people who go slower and are more thorough would probably get better scores in general than people who go through it really fast. I'm just saying that this test in particular is really going to favor people who go through the reading section fast</p>
<p>Again, i reiterate...people who can get through the test fast and get the right answers deserve better scores than those who can't. This is how it's distinguished. Time is a factor. Those who can skim and get the important stuff out deserve to do better. Those who do it slowly, right or not, dont deserve to do as well as the people who could do it with good speed. And seriously...I finished with 7 minutes left. It wasn't that bad.</p>
<p>Don't correlate fast with not paying attention. I'm a medium-fast reader, but that doesn't mean if the slow reader was allowed more time they would necesarily score better than me. I read every word in every reading passage, and I thought it was easy, and I finnished early.</p>
<p>Is the ACT scored on a curve?</p>
<p>It wasn't bad for you because you can read fast and answer the questions fast. Most people who have taken practice tests probably had a pretty good idea of what pace they needed to read and answer questions at to ensure finishing the section on time. The directions tell you to read each passage and answer the questions, so I think when the average person can't read the passage and answer the questions in the alotted amount of time, there is a problem with a test and not the taker. I agree that time is a factor but it should be a consistent factor that you can figure out before you take the test.</p>
<p>It's on a curve, but it doesn't flucuate as much as the SAT curve</p>
<p>I really don't read that fast though, I really thought I just read at an average speed. I'm against altering the time restraints unless people are very unhappy with their reading scores, year after year. If it can be proven that most people aren't finnishing, I think gradually more time should be added</p>
<p>I dont think it needs to be more consistent...plenty of people finish the reading and get 30+ scores.</p>
<p>I'm mostly just talking about this particular administration. I've taken the PLAN and PSAT and ACT practice tests so I have a pretty good idea of how long it takes me to read the passages and answer the questions and I usually have a few minutes left at the end to go back to tricky questions . I'm a decent<br>
at CR but not great so I know that if I pace myself to read the passages and put a little thought into answering the questions I will get a better score than if I go through them fast. I thought I was going through the reading section today at a very reasonable speed and was shocked when the proctor called 5 minutes and I had to rush to guess on answers for the last two passages. If I was the only one this happened to it would be different, but lots of people on CC and people I talked to after the test at my school had the same problem. I think its unfair to everyone that this happened to because the ACT test takers have no way of knowing how well they are doing on time except for just basing it on their past test taking experiences. Because such a high number of people didn't finish that section I think there is a serious problem with the version of the test administered today that can't be fixed just by curving the scores on that section.</p>
<p>If you guys think you didn't have enough time, you wouldn't believe the Feburary test :|</p>