<p>One of my friends from high school initially scored a 16 on his ACT. His parents hired him a tutor and he brought his score up to a 27(E:31 M:22 R30 SR: 26). He does not actually know the material well and has pseudo-skills. He told me the lady taught him how to guess correctly. I indeed believe that is a fluke.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s the problem with multiple choice standardized tests. There’s a lot of guessing and luck involved (although you can still use process of elimination to rid the obvious choices).</p>
<p>IMO, the math section should be answered in more of an AIME format (all answers are integers from 000 to 999, similar to SAT grid-in. Removes virtually all the guessing).</p>