<p>There are really two main opinions regarding the ACT's accuracy in measuring college readiness or intelligence. </p>
<p>The first is that the ACT accurately measures essential skills and knowledge that one needs going into college. </p>
<p>The second is that the test is more a measure of test taking ability and speed than it is a measure of skills or intelligence.</p>
<p>What is your opinion? My guess is that most of the people on this forum would agree with the former. However, I would like to hear what you have to say. If you could also give your highest composite score that would be great. For the sake of the discussion, I won't tell you my opinion until a few other people have chimed in. Thanks!</p>
<p>Just like the SAT, the ACT is not accurate is computing college readiness. Some people aren’t good test takers, but they might be ready for college. Exams are just a flawed way of calculating something like college readiness.</p>
<p>Lol no. I got a 34 and am making a deliberate effort to find easy courses to take in college because I’m insecure about my college readiness level.</p>
<p>I just got my score today. I wasn’t happy. I will be a junior in the fall. I don’t think that the ACT indicates if one is ready for college. I’m not a good test taker, but hopefully I’ll do better next time.</p>
<p>Now, wasn’t a lot of College tests out of the so called “blue book”? I don’t know, sounds a lot like ACT/SAT to me. It sounds like it totally measures how you will succeed in those tests where some classes are solely based on those tests. I know blue books are essays, but it emphasizes how quickly you can think and pull stuff out of your butt.</p>
<p>I know someone with a 16, and they are far from stupid. So in some cases yes, but in others no. It is subjective. Really, any test you can study for does not measure true intelligence. When paying $2000 can increase your score by 300+ points, than you know there is something wrong. Also, those who go straight into AP and upper level courses are at a disadvantage. The SAT/ACT test knowledge accumulated earlier in HS. Alg. 2 is the highest math class needed. If that was skipped or taken as a freshman, and you don’t study, than you may do worse even though you know more math than what was tested.</p>
<p>I would say it really doesn’t show college readiness all by itself. Obviously, for the most part, smarter kids will get higher scores. But not always.</p>
<p>Just by ACT itself cannot determine whether a person is truely “ready” for college. Instead, it helps when colleges don’t know anything about your school.</p>
<p>I’ve never really thought of either the ACT or SAT helping to determine “college readiness”, but rather as a tool for colleges to compare students on an “equal” level. Every high school has its own system of weighting classes in terms of GPA, different teachers, different available classes; in other words, it’s fairly difficult to accurately compare one student to another in different schools by solely using GPA and class rank. The ACT and SAT provide another number for colleges to compare objectively, and weeds out many variables associated with GPA and class rank.</p>