Confused about ACT score. possible error?

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<p>Well, I got my ACT score report online a while ago, and I was just looking at it more in depth today and I was a little confused. I found that my subscores within each section didn't really correlate with my actual score for the section.
For example:
Both my Usage/Mechanics and Rhetorical Skills Subscores were 18 (out of 18), and yet, my section score was a 35 in English and not a 36.
And, my Combined English/Writing score was only a 35 even with a 12 essay and the 35 from the English section (which, as explained above, might not even be correct by itself).</p>

<p>Is there a reason for this? Can someone elaborate on how they arrive at the section scores from the subscores of those sections?</p>

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<p>“Both my Usage/Mechanics and Rhetorical Skills Subscores were 18 (out of 18), and yet, my section score was a 35 in English and not a 36.”</p>

<p>This is not an uncommon occurrence. The subsections unfortunately do not have to add up to the overall section score.</p>

<p>As far as your combined English/writing: (1) that score doesn’t really matter anyway and (2) the curve may have been set so that in order to get a 36, you would have needed to get a 36 and a 12.</p>

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<p>Thanks Peytoncline, that’s all I was confused about.</p>