<p>I read somewhere that to get 36 on a section you cannot afford to get any wrong. 1 wrong can drop you to a 35, and two wrong can drop you to a 34? Isn't that ridiculously hard then?</p>
<p>Well, for the reading section you can miss two.</p>
<p>Basically that means that if you get 2 wrong your automatically at 34? Hmm, I had a glimmer of hope that the ACT would be easier than the SAT. Oh well, time to pick up that Barron’s 2400 again.</p>
<p>For math, that is true (generally)
for reading, you can get 2 wrong and still get 36
science, one wrong = 34
English, I forget. You can look up the curves somewhere</p>
<p>I don’t believe that you can miss any for that section either to obtain that score.</p>
<p>Why is the science curve so low?</p>
<p>thats not true the curves i have found are very different every time. I just took the last practice test in the real ACT book and i got one question wrong on science yet still got a 36, and on the december 2009 test 1 reading question wrong was a 34 so the curve varies a lot i think.</p>
<p>Not necessarily true about the science section. Son took December test and got one wrong (we believe) in the science portion and received a 35 for science. Obviously wouldn’t have received a 35 with 2 wrong. Fortunately, got 36 on the other 3 sections.</p>
<p>Curves vary with every test.</p>
<p>Well, I guess the curve can vary a lot. I had previously thought that they were more consistent.</p>
<p>Are they not repetitive?</p>