<p>Hello</p>
<p>My friend got a 33 on the critical reading section, but she only missed two problems. I know there's a curve, but how does missing 2 give you a 33? Had she missed one would she have had a 34 or 35?</p>
<p>How does she know she only got two wrong?</p>
<p>it says the subscores (she got 17/18 for both sections). we're just confused. if 2 wrong gets you a 33, then would 1 wrong get you a 34 or a 35? something's not adding up</p>
<p>For a start there are 75 questions on the English section not 36(40 in U/M and 35 in rhetorical). The scoring does not follow normal (or logical) mathematical formulas so a 17 out of 18 does not neccesarily mean she missed only one question. For instance the April ACT my D got 18s on both English subscores but got a 35 on the total English which means she missed at least one question even though she had 18s. If you look at the test prep booklet on the ACT web site </p>
<p><a href="http://www.actstudent.org/pdf/preparing.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.actstudent.org/pdf/preparing.pdf</a></p>
<p>on page 64 you will see that for that test for English that a 17 on U/M on that test meant you missed 2 questions and a 17 on rhetorical means you missed 1 or 2 questions. So 2 17s means you missed either 3 or 4 questions. Then go to page 63 and look at the raw score table and you will see that missing 2 on English gives you a 35 and missing 3 or 4 is a 34. It is very confusing to everyone and you will find several threads about it on CC. And the scoring is different on each test so you really cannot figure out how many you actually missed on each subsection. Same applies to Math and reading and there are a couple of confused posters.</p>
<p>On the ACT web site it does say that the sub scores will not neccessarily add up to the subject score.</p>