<p>...Easier? I heard it supposedly is...</p>
<p>I hope so!</p>
<p>I don't see any reason why it would be.</p>
<p>If it is, then the curve will make up for any difference.</p>
<p>Actually chiron, I've heard that the curve for the ACT, unlike the curve for the SAT, is preset, not created based on student performance. I'm not sure if this is true or not.</p>
<p>yea actually i heard that october is so easy everyone automatically gets a 36, and the test writers do this on purpose cause making one date easy and the other ones hard would be totally fair.</p>
<p>They can predetermine curves because they test out questions before in several ways:</p>
<p>-Certain places they adminster sample questions to see how students do
-Certain test dates they adminster sample sections
-Certain questions every test are thrown out of the curve. This is the ACT way of doing experimental questions without telling you.</p>
<p>Um, thanks for your input chocolatealtoids. Deeply appreciate it.</p>
<p>I was only curious, as I had heard it being said around this board.</p>
<p>It's not like the sort of curve you might have in some of your classes, where everyone's grade is influenced by the distribution of scores for that test on that day. Because then it wouldn't be a standardized test. </p>
<p>The sample questions are used to build the tests, but not the curve. The curve is based on administrations of different whole tests to equivalent populations.</p>
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<p>All editions of the SAT are developed using the same test specifications. Even if there are tiny differences in difficulty from test to test, a statistical process called "equating" ensures that a score for a test taken on one date or at one place is equivalent to a score for a test taken on another date or in another place. The rumors that the SAT in one month, say in October, is easier, are false.
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<p>My bad Mrs. Ferguson, that is a better explanation.</p>
<p>the oct test may be harder now college board knows everyone think the oct. test is easy</p>
<p>Swang, the ACT is NOT created by College Board. =]</p>
<p>And to the topic, I heard from the ACT teachers that will be slightly easier than the previous exams; however, I would not take their word for it.</p>
<p>swang said oct, not act, lol.</p>
<p>man i dont care about the english or math. i hope they're the harder ones and reading and science are the easy ones.</p>
<p>The October test differs from all the others in that it's filled with CANDY! YAY CANDY! OMG FREE 36 W000T!!!1</p>
<p>Seriously, why would the October test differ in difficulty?</p>
<p>who the **** cares?</p>
<p>hahhhHa!! Brilliant post Madboy121 =]</p>
<p>thanks yousonofatree</p>
<p>It should be easy considering the September test was impossibly difficult.</p>
<p>wat kind of bs answers is that yanksman?</p>