<p>Get ready everyone! According to ACT website:</p>
<p>"Scores are processed and added each week, usually each Wednesday and Friday. Normally, all scores are reported by 8 weeks after the test date."</p>
<p>I'll bet some of the scores will be available tomorrow morning! ACT.org says the website will be available at 5 a.m. central time Wednesday morning. Anyone gonna be up to check at that time?!</p>
<p>If the status of your June test under the "Test Dates & Scores" page changes from "Registered" to "Tested", then your scores have been uploaded.</p>
<p>Not to sound pessimistic, but the same thing happened in february and no scores were uploaded...</p>
<p>I tested as a stand-by. Will they be able to match the information that I put in the registration packed to my online account, or will I have to wait until they mail my scores to me?</p>
<p>yay excited!^^</p>
<p>Ok Good luck on explaining this to me. All over the ACT site there are references to the "curve" that will be created based on the performance of the test takers that day. Such as there is speculation that due to the mitosis and viscosity science questions the curve might be better. If that is the case. Then how can they score some tests before other tests. Don't they have to score all the ACt tests taken, create the curves, calculate the scores and then post them. I don't understand how some might be calculated as soon as tomorrow, while others may be weeks.</p>
<p>By the time they start posting, they should be already done with grading the tests. It's just the time it takes to post that takes so long.</p>
<p>I believe... correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>i believe you are correct.
they have to input all of that data into the computers....which would take FOREVER.</p>
<p>Therefore that would mean that they are able to receive and grade ALL the tests by the Wednesday after the test (if reports of Wednesday hacks are correct)? Does that sound possible?</p>
<p>They're all computer graded, which will probably take a day to do... probably a couple of days to get all the tests to Iowa City, and then probably a day max to grade them by computer... so the wednesday after the test may actually be a likely day that they finish grading all the tests</p>
<p>im sure its possible..have a ton of people just putting the answer docs through scantrons or whatever...it can be done..</p>
<p>i think its possible. saying they probably have TONS of machines TONS of workers working full time. i guess it would only take a machine about 30 seconds to run a test through and grade it</p>
<p>Then why do they need humans to do the data entry. If they have computers grading them then the computer should be able to just upload the grade, right? Then the grades should all be available at the same time. Sorry I am so confused. :)</p>
<p>Is it really graded on a curve? I don't see how you can grade a standardized test on a curve...there is specific rubric for attaining certain scores.</p>
<p>On other threads people refer to the various "curves" and how one different tests having better or worse curves on the various subject matter.</p>
<p>that rubric changes every test depending on how everybody does nationally otay..its pretty fair, usually lol</p>
<p>the "curve" is simply a way of converting the raw score to the scaled score... for some sections, it may be a -3 = 33... for others, it may be a -3 = 31... but usually, it's -0 = 36.. there are some instances where -1 = 36, but usually you need a perfect raw score for a perfect scaled score</p>
<p>Is the "curve" predetermined or is the curve based upon the results of the test day?</p>
<p>its based upon the results of the test day smoda</p>
<p>no its not predetermined</p>
<p>I guess it doesn't have anything to do with student performance during that particular test administration but rather compensating for harder and easier versions of the test...so it is predetermined I would assume.</p>