<p>Or how is it scored?</p>
<p>yah it has a curve but its minor...if you want to score high..the curve won't go in your favor. The best curve I've seen for the math section in the Real ACT Book is 8 wrong and still getting a 30... but if you want 34-36...1 wrong will bring you down 1 point</p>
<p>curve sucks, but it's comprable to colleges because they realize this and you can choose which ACTs to send rather than all the SATs; BTW, we're better than those SAT people! We have a much better forum than them!</p>
<p>Curve is pretty insignificant...don't mean to hijack your thread, but do they round up subject scores (the reason I ask is I'm wondering if I miss one question on the english subject (first section, 75 questions) could I still get a 36? 74/75 is slightly more than 35.5, so according to their rounding up rule, that should work.</p>
<p>Anyway, don't rely on a curve. For the most part, I heard they just take total correct/total possible multiply by 36 and then round up.</p>
<p>Rman they have a set conversion factor...-1 is almost definitely a 35, but if you get say</p>
<p>reading 36
math 36
science 35
english 35</p>
<p>they would round that up to a 36</p>
<p>On my reading I missed one and got a 35...</p>
<p>anomaly what strategy did u use for reading? plz explain step by step how you answered the questions...thx I appreciate it</p>
<p>The way I understand it they set the curve to reflect a standard distribution, such that 18 is the mean and 6 is the standard deviation. What this would signify is that the 97th percentile, for instance, would be given a score of 30. Two-thirds of the test-takers would score between 12 and 24. It most assuredly doesn't mean that the test-taker awarded a 30 only got 5/6ths of the questions correct!</p>
<p>So the actual curve for any particular test would be determined by how people do on it.</p>
<p>The SAT is the same way, with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. </p>
<p>There are undoubtedly little quirks about how all this works in practice. This idealized explanation is in a statistics book I have. But my daughter got a 30 and a designation of 97th percentile, so the book can't be too far off the actual mark.</p>
<p>yeah the Kaplan books has a similar chart.</p>
<p>English 6 wrong =30
MAth 6 wrong =30
Reading 4 wrong=30
Science 4 wrong=30</p>
<p>not sure of the percentiles though.</p>
<p>I found these from the official practice test's curve.
Sci= 36 34 32 30
English= 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 30 29
Reading= 34 raw= 29
math= 55 raw= 32</p>