<p>Two of my friends and I took the ACT recently.
One didn't study and said she got a 26, up from a 21.
The other did 1/2 a practice test and read the procastinators guide and went from a 26 to a 32. She was also sick.</p>
<p>I worked my but off to go from a 30 to a 32.</p>
<p>They also both talked about not finishing a lot of the tests right after.</p>
<p>They do not know my score. Am I making them feel bad? Do your think they are lying?</p>
<p>Why would they be lying…?</p>
<p>Are you saying you think you’re smarter than them? Maybe they’re just better at the ACT than you are.</p>
<p>Well the latter and I are always in the same classes and get the same grades. We have the same stusy habits. So I just thought it was extremely strange.
The first I know lies about her grades because out of my 4 closest frienda, myself and two others are high achieving students, the latter included. She always says a different GPA then she has. My school reports honor rolls so you know who has what.</p>
<p>And yes, the ACT is difficult for me.</p>
<p>Also, I never share test scores or anything. If your friend didn’t tell you his ACT, what would you think?</p>
<p>Well my friends wouldn’t lie about their score. They would either say something like “I did alright” or “I didn’t do great” or say what they actually got. </p>
<p>Even if you two get the same grades, that doesn’t mean you’ll get the same test scores. Some people are better at standardized tests than others, and this seems to be the case.</p>
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<p>It’s not. There are way more people with high GPAs than there are with high ACT scores. You can blame this on a lot of things…grade inflation, people being bad test takers, etc.</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure about this, but I’ve heard before that higher scores are harder to increase because of the way the test is designed. It’s easier to go from a 25 to a 26 than it is to go from a 35 to a 36. Going from a 21 to a 26 without studying can be as easy as learning another year of math. </p>
<p>But FWIW I worked very hard to go from a 28ish (I didn’t score 28 on an actual test…just my first practice test) to a 33 in my sophomore year, and in my junior year I went from a 33 to a 35 without studying at all. It’s pretty random.</p>