<p>I just got back my PLAN scores and they are much lower than expected. I'm planning to apply to very competitive schools and want to make sure I have scores to back it up. I'm a sophomore and these are the first standardized scores (college application ones, at least) I have gotten.</p>
<p>English: 27
Math: 28
Reading: 28
Science: 27
Composite: 28</p>
<p>How do these correlate to ACT scores? Should I be doing a lot of test prep if I want to stay in the running?</p>
<p>There isn't any official way to compare them, since the PLAN goes from 1-32 and the ACT goes from 1-36. Just going by the way my scores panned out, you can expect about a 32 on the actual ACT from those scores. But that's really just a guess.</p>
<p>My PLAN composite was a 24 but my real ACT composite was a 34</p>
<p>27 on Plan and 32 on ACT for me. I remember when I got my Plan results sophomore year it said my expected ACT scores were 27-31, so your expected scores are probably 28-32.</p>
<p>You'll most likely score in the 28-32 range your first time on the ACT. But if you practice and retake you could easily exceed that range.</p>
<p>I think you can set up proportions to get an approximate score of what your individual and composites would be on the ACT, i.e. (27/32) = (x/36) and then cross-multiply and solve for x.</p>
<p>I had the same composite on the PLAN, and it said that my predicted score was 29-33 (which, seeing as how I'm pretty sure I'm hosed on today's ACT, is probably inaccurate, but that's just me), so yours will probably fall somewhere along there.</p>
<p>Yea, I'm guessing I'll score between 30-32 on the ACT. (Assuming I'll be at higher end of range, with some prep.)</p>