<p>Let it begin! Only 4 more days! Yes I am going to pay the $8 fee -_- since I need to know my score before I begin my massive college trip</p>
<p>I will be getting my scores early, too. I am so stressed out from waiting for test scores. I am also waiting for my SAT scores, which come out the day before ACT results. I am driving my mom nuts by constantly telling her the number of days until each set of results. These days are hell. I really hope we do great. What was your target score?
Edit: P.S. Where are you going on your "massive college trip"?</p>
<p>32+. My colleges arent like the typical ivy schools everyone wants here. I am going to visit UW-Madison, UM- Ann Abor, OSU-Fisher, Univeristy of Maryland- College Park, Indiana. Top notch Undergrad Business Management schools.</p>
<p>Got a 33 first time, hoping for 33+ this time. Already planned trips to Northwestern, Duke, Columbia, Yale, and ND.</p>
<p>I took this test blind with no prep whatsoever. This was my first standardized test of 05 too. Hopefully I get a good enough score so I dont have to take it again. Hoping for 30+</p>
<p>Yeah, well generally speaking I heard a 30+ is competitive. I mean, various websites show top notch colleges with outrageous ACT means. The princetonreview site shows Dartmouth's ACT mean was a 30, and Brown's mean was a 28. I just really don't know.</p>
<p>If I get a 30, i'll be happy.</p>
<p>I care about the SAT more than the ACT. </p>
<p>I think I failed science though (and I mean that... like probably a 25 at best).</p>
<p>How does the scoring work again? The essay is graded on a scale of 36, and they just average your 5 scores??? What if the average is a fraction?</p>
<p>Essays really don't mean anything.</p>
<p>I'm waiting until they release scores online for free...I'm shooting beat 32, but I'm not sure it will happen because I know my math went down some from the 36 I got in April.</p>
<p>when are they released online for free?</p>
<p>What DOES the essay do? Or are the ESSAY and the GRAMMAR section together used to determine your WRITING score?</p>
<p>The essay doesn't really do anything; it just provides an extra score. The ACT essay, like its SAT counterpart, is graded by two graders and assigned scores from 1 to 6. The two scores are then added together, resulting in an essay score between 2 and 12. They somehow combine the essay score with the English score, resulting in a combined English/Writing score. However, the essay doesn't affect your composite score or your actual English score; it just provides a little extra information.
I am personally retaking a 31 and praying for a 33 composite, which I know is completely out of my league because of my atrocious math scores. I know Im going to be SO disappointed when I finally get to see my scores, but I still cant wait. A girl can have wildly improbable dreams, cant she?</p>
<p>Also, scores are usually released for free online about 2 weeks after they are first viewable for a fee.</p>
<p>Im so nervous. This ACT it felt good, all the questions on the thread i got right. But this needs to make up my lower rank.</p>
<p>OMG I just hate how ACT uses the english setion twice. Once as a section itself and once in the writing section as a subsection. I somehow managed a 24 (YES that low) in English, so it made my writing score only 27 (12 essay).</p>
<p>what makes this thread so official?</p>
<p>LOl i got a 33 raw on multiple choice but then a frieking 8 on the essay brought it down to 30 <em>ouch</em>.</p>
<p>math- cause i said so :P</p>
<p>The combined essay-english score really doesn't mean crap. Composite is still the biggie (essay not included in composite.)</p>
<p>By the time scores are made free online you should have recieved your scores in the mail.</p>
<p>No...scores were free online over a week before I got my score report.</p>
<p>I'm shooting to beat a 31 (my April score), and I'm hopeful because I feel like my math will be higher this time....</p>
<p>can't wait till Tuesday!</p>