<p>I know many of you take practice tests and post your practice test scores on the ACT. For those who have taken the actual ACT test, did your real scores = your practice tests scores? </p>
<p>My DD is a sophomore and has taken practice tests. She says her composite has been a 30 on her 1st two. What is the reality of her scoring a 30 on the actual test?</p>
<p>When DS took his ACT in Dec, his actual scores were higher than his practice scores.
Practice - 22E, 29M, 30R, 29S
Actual - 30E, 31M, 33R, 34S</p>
<p>He does admit that he wasn’t focused while doing his practice test.</p>
<p>(For scorers between 32-36)
Not at all. When it comes down to it, the score is based a lot on luck, in all sections.
In the end, careless mistakes are what plague the grades the most. </p>
<p>For example, in English, I expected to do very well. All my practice tests denoted that I would get a 35/36.
In the end, I ended up with a 33, which prevented me from a 36 Composite. </p>
<p>In Math and Science, the practice tests are not too accurate as well. My practice tests denoted a 35 in math and a 33 in science, yet I got 36s on both of those. </p>
<p>Similarly, Reading is a lot based on luck, because the passages and the questions will be different all the time. Some you’ll like and some you’ll hate. I was expected a 32 but got a 34 in the end. </p>
<p>All in all, practice tests are not good predictors once you get in the higher range.
Still, if you’re going for 32 or below, they are fairly accurate.</p>
<p>My dd’s composite was close (1 point down in real test but she was sick that day) but her Reading and English scores went up and her math and science went down. This was much what I expected since if she is having a headache, her math and science always are worse. SHe will be retaking in April and since it comes at a better time of year and better time of month, I expect she will do at least as well as her practice tests.</p>
<p>The scores you get on the practice test can give you a pretty accurate measure of what you might score on the actual ACT, but in some cases the actual ACT is harder or easier in a section or two which can decrease or increase your score accordingly. But, I don’t see too many people scoring like a 22 on a practice test and get a 33 or something on the real thing.</p>
<p>my friend took a practice ACT and scored a 23. Then, he took the actual ACT and scores a 32 as his composite score.</p>
<p>^^feiny: that’s insane…really? what did he do in between?</p>
<p>My daughter got the same composite score on both practice tests she took in the red book and on the actual ACT.</p>
<p>My practice scores were all in the same general range as my actual score.</p>
<p>Mine were higher than my practice scores: my highest composite on practice tests was a 32. I got a 35 on the real thing. Go figure.</p>
<p>The differences between 32-33-34-35-36 are typically one or two questions on each section. I got a higher than the practice tests on some, but lower on others.</p>