June 14 2014 ACT Discussion

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<p>I hate ACT and SAT…but I hope if people call them expressing concern…they might do something… </p>

<p>Here is the number:</p>

<p>ACT National Office
500 ACT Drive
P.O. Box 168
Iowa City, IA 52243-0168
319.337.1000</p>

742

<p>Listen @SammyxB, you are wrong. You must be misunderstanding what the ACT rep is saying. No ACT is “curved” but every ACT is scaled differently. Look at the old red book tests. Every ACT of 2014 has been different also. The goal is to make every ACT the same difficulty. In order to do this, they adjust the scale. The one we just took happened to be a rather difficult math, so in order to meet the norm, it will most likely have a more generous scale. The science was much easier, so it will most likely have a less generous scale. Every ACT is like this and always has been. It isn’t a “curve” because it isn’t really based off of performance of the test takers, instead the difficulty of the test.</p>

743

<p>I know it isn’t curved. I asked them to clear it up since I was hearing so many people firmly saying how there is a curve to it and how it was based on how others did… I have most of the old red book tests. I talked to someone in corporate office and they cleared it up. </p>

744

<p>So I’m confused, is it to be understood that this scale will be similar to the June 2013 scale? Because that would be GREAT.</p>

745

<p>Sorry if I am not making any sense.</p>

746

<p>Do international students have a different ACT paper or something? Was just reading some of these comments and there was definitely nothing about Ray Bradbury or Bombay in the reading passages in my paper haha don’t know whether to be extremely worried or…?</p>

747

<p>Hm…I think slightly different…no clue really…what can you recall from reading?</p>

748

<p>Did you have something about celia?</p>

749

<p>@‌ smez
International should be different test because otherwise with the time change people would know the answers prior to taking the test.</p>

750

<p>Can someone post a picture of the June 2013 scale or just type it out?</p>

751

<p>PM me I will send you. I tried attaching Jpeg and I could not.</p>

752

<p><a href=“http://content.screencast.com/users/Dabral/folders/Public/media/598207fd-c672-4b73-ac8b-eab70f14a488/ACT-71C-Scale.png”>http://content.screencast.com/users/Dabral/folders/Public/media/598207fd-c672-4b73-ac8b-eab70f14a488/ACT-71C-Scale.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Hard to say whether they just copy the scale from last year seeing as we only have one sample. I thought the science was easy which doesn’t match up with this scale, and reading was harder than normal which doesn’t match up either.</p>

753

<p>THANK YOU YOURE AWESOME</p>

754

<p>That is tru because when you look at June 2013 which does not match with June of 2012. In general if you see redbook and take hard reading, easy science then that should be the curve. Math is harder than red book so June 2013 and June 2012 curve match for math. English is usually normal curve like red book.</p>

755

<p>Im looking at ACT real prep book at for each practice tests, the scales are different. So the company that works with ACT has wrong scale if its not curved?</p>

<p>And lol @VaishS‌, ur taking ACT again? U already fot a rlly good score </p>

756

<p>@master1006
No, it isnt “curved” but it still has a predetermined scale</p>

<p>And yes lol, not score wasn’t that good, only a 33 but i really think I got a 35-36 this time</p>

757

<p>Vaish, can I have your 33 composite please.</p>

758

<p>Haha @SammyxB sure :D</p>

759

<p>@SammyxB‌ calm down Jesus Christ! I’ve never seen someone so worked up about the act score scale! And that’s coming from someone with a college confidential account!!</p>

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<p>And you are confusing a lot of people here about then act score scales. A curved test is one where the grades are assigned based on the performance of the test takers. For example, they would make sure a certain percent of people will get an A, certain will have a B, and Etc. The name “curve” comes from the test administrator trying to have the scores of the test takers to represent a bell curve kind of distribution of scores. The act doesn’t do that, they just adjust the scales based on how difficult the test was to make all tests similar in difficulty. The act does not curve scores based on the test takers performance. I hope that cleared up anyone’s confusion. </p>