Eng/Writing Combined Score:

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<p>I think they might have made a mistake; can someone confirm this?</p>

<p>Their website says that "The Combined English/Writing score is created by using a formula that weights the English Test score two-thirds and the Writing Test score one-third to form a combined score."</p>

<p>I got a 31 on English, and an 11 on the essay. According to their statement above, my combined score would be 2/3(31) + (11/12)(36)(1/3) = 31.667, which should round up to a 32, right? (I multiplied 11/12 by 36 to make it on the same scale)</p>

<p>Well their table posted here: <a href="http://actstudent.org/writing/scores/combined.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://actstudent.org/writing/scores/combined.html&lt;/a> and my early scores say I only got a 31 combined...is that a mistake?</p>

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<p>There's a problem with your formula: it accounts for the difference in where the two scales end, but not where they start. English is really out of 35 and Writing is really out of 10 (because the scale is 2-12). So I would do this: ((2/3(30/35) + 1/3(9/10))*35)+1. I think this gets you the results on ACT's chart for most score combinations, but still doesn't come out quite right for some, if you don't round anything until the end. I suspect ACT rounds something earlier.</p>