<p>Is there one ACT test that is known for supplying higher scores or having a greater curve?</p>
<p>Im am trying to decide between april and june, any suggestions?</p>
<p>There is no test date that has higher scores. Act sets the curve based on the percentiles which means the same percentage of people get a 36 each time and the same percentage of people get a 35...etc.</p>
<p>Thanks for teh reply,</p>
<p>if I choose to take both the April and June, get a 30 then a 28 for example, can i choose to only send the 30, or do colleges see all scores like the SAT?</p>
<p>nichols08-
You can choose which one(s) to send.</p>
<p>I bet there are easier tests but there is no way to predict them.</p>
<p>The test designers try to eliminate fluctuations in difficulty by modifying the curves appropriately. This is the purpose of giving scores from 1-36 instead of just the number of questions you got right--to take into account that one test might be slightly more or less difficult than another.</p>
<p>OP: ACT curves are set beforehand so the test date is largely irrelevant in determining the overall performance of people taking the test.</p>
<p>Contradiction. If curves are set beforehand, how do they predict fluctuations?</p>
<p>It's called test equating. ACT gives a basic description of their scoring here: <a href="http://www.act.org/research/briefs/2001-1.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.act.org/research/briefs/2001-1.html</a> Furthermore, the following is taken from <a href="http://www.isbe.state.il.us/high_school/psae_myths.ppt%5B/url%5D">http://www.isbe.state.il.us/high_school/psae_myths.ppt</a></p>
<p>"The test development and equating process is NOT designed to impose a particular distribution of scores on every form. That is, it does not “force” a certain percentage of examinees to get low scores across forms or across test dates."</p>
<p>"ACT is designed, administered, and scored in such a way that there is no advantage to testing on one particular date or another."</p>