Why not 36?

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<p>Hey college confidential.</p>

<p>On my score report, I received this:
English 35<br>
Usage/Mechanics 18
Rhetorical Skills 18</p>

<p>Something looks wrong here. Is there any reason why I should be receiving a 35 instead of a 36 in English? If essays were factored in, I would understand (even though I have not yet received an essay score), but since they aren't, I am very confused.</p>

<p>Did this happen to anyone else or is just my score report weird?</p>

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<p>I have heard of this happening to other people… You are not the only one so, I am guessing it is normal.</p>

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<p>sometimes the scale is still 18 but you could have missed one, thus leaving it to the curve and giving you a 35. </p>

<p>but, nevertheless, it could have been a mistake … i suggest contacting ACT and inquiring about the matter.</p>

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<p>You can still contact ACT, but they are likely to tell you the same exact thing.</p>

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<p>Yeah, what everyone said above is right. For the PLAN test I took a while back, I got full points (16, I think) for both math subscores but I only got a 31 for the subject. Your score is determined by that scale which counts how many questions you got wrong on all types of problems.</p>

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<p>Same happened to me. usage/mechanics 18 and rhetorical skills 18 and my total English score was 35</p>

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<p>damn. No 36 composite for me then. D:</p>

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<p>That’s so weird. Smh</p>

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<p>Sometimes subscores have generous curves too. </p>

<p>It could be an 18 if you got 39-40 usage mechanics and 18 for 35 rhetorical
if you get what im trying to say. </p>

<p>How could you get so close to a 36 and not have know this :O</p>

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<p>^He got a 35 in English, but a 21 in Test Scoring Skills</p>

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<p>^^
i don’t know how the test are scored, i just know how to get the right answers [well, most of them): ]</p>

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<p>Just cos y’all may find this interesting, I got the exact same thing as the OP for English (English 35, Usage/Mechanics 18, Rhetorical Skills 18) and 36s on all of the other three sections (18s on all the subsections) and got a 36 composite. So, that one English weirdness alone was not what disqualified you from a 36 composite.</p>