<p>I took my act tests yesterday and I felt cool calm and confident before and during the tests. I bought a practice ACT book and I was doing the grading of my practice tests incorrectly for the longest. My last practice test my raw score was a 35 and I think my scale score was average. Now I'm losing my mind because I studied the book and I'm probably not going to score what I thought I was. I have a fab gpa but my chances at any school maybe screwed. It was also my first time taking it and I don't have time to waste. I'm applying for schools now. What do I do? Any advice?</p>
<p>What do you mean your raw score was 35? Are you talking about a particular section?</p>
<p>Anyway, there’s nothing you can do at the moment. Maybe you can try for the next test date if you have time. Just try to stay calm until scores are out, there’s no point in stressing over something you can’t change.</p>
<p>I thought you added all the correct answers up and divided by 4. I went back through my book and figured out the conversion chart. Now I’m freaking out because I probably bombed my test today</p>
<p>As far as I’ve known, the raw score is per section, like a 50/60 on the math test. That would be your raw score for math, and you’d convert it to your scaled score, which would depend on the curve, but a 50/60 is usually around 29. Then you add up all your SCALED scores and divide by four ;)</p>
<p>Also, just because you were scaling things incorrectly doesn’t mean you bombed the test.</p>
<p>Yeah i realized that today, after the test of course. Now I’m predicting my score will be maybe in the mid to high 20s. I’m gonna talk to my mom about registering for the Sat</p>
<p>Don’t think that messing up your grading is going to cause trouble in your real paper… keep calm and pray for the best.</p>
<p>Wait how did OP score his or her practice tests wrongly? I thought you just added up the score per section and divided by 4.</p>
<p>@Omnipotent, you calculate raw score per section.
For eg, In English, if you miss 7, raw score= 68/75
Math, if you miss 5, raw score=55/60
Science, if you miss 10, raw score= 30/40
Reading, if you miss 6, raw score= 34/30
Now in the testing books, at the end of the answers, a conversion table is given. The 68 translates to a 31 in English (lets say), 55 to 32 in math, 30 to 27 in science and 34 to 30 in reading.
Now you take the mean of the converted scores= (31+32+27+30)/4 =30
Your ACT composite is 30.</p>