Here’s my dilemma: I took the September 2016 ACT and received a 10 on the essay and a 36 on English, making my combined English/writing score a 34 (I looked up a concordance table on the ACT website). I also took the April 2016 ACT on which I got a 30 essay score. The CommonApp says that you should report your essay score if it is out of 36 and your combined English/writing if the essay is out of 12, so that either way the scaled score will be 36. My worry is that there was no actual combined English/writing score on my score report; I just used the ACT’s website to find my combined E/w score. That being said, can I (and should I) report the combined score of 34 or just the essay score of 30?
this is the same problem I have. in september 2015, ACT changed their writing which used to be graded 2-12 to a scale of 0-36. now, in september 2016, they have changed it once again to the old 2-12 scale. i took the act in december, june, and now september 2016. my highest writing score from december is 29, but when i look at the combined chart for my september 2016 writing, the combined english/writing score is much higher. I’m going to just go with the highest one. think of it like this…september 2016 ACT is the same as ACT taken before september 2015. so if you want to report that it’s fine, since the scale is the old one now
@bingington I actually found out how to do it. You are not supposed to record combined English/writing unless you took the act prior to September 2015. Here’s a link to explain:
oh, sorry about my advice then. thanks for the link! i would have sent the wrong score otherwise
@bingington yeah! Out of curiosity… where are you applying?
@ap012199 to purdue