What's the overall score, I got curious.  

The day society realizes standardized testing is not a good way to measure a person's capability to learn...  

Posted by Mio

What's the overall score, I got curious.

I scored a 29 which is pretty good for my first time I guess lol.

English - 28

Math - 31

Reading - 27

Science - 30

I'll try it again in the fall.

Posted by 5hift

The day society realizes standardized texting is not a good way to measure a person's capability to learn...

They aren't at all.. I felt rushed ,and I couldn't think clearly.  

Does skipping questions not count for any points in ACT?

I know for a fact that is the case for SATs.

You can literally get an amazing score if you just solve all the questions you know and skip the ones you don't.

And yeah, time makes these tests a total cluster ****.

All throughout grade school you're tought that showing work is how you show that you know what you're actually doing.

Now it's just rush, rush, rush.

Don't care how you solved the question, just get on to the next one.  

Posted by Motrox

I scored a 29 which is pretty good for my first time I guess lol.

English - 28

Math - 31

Reading - 27

Science - 30

I'll try it again in the fall.



They aren't at all.. I felt rushed ,and I couldn't think clearly.

you did a great job :o!  

I got a 23, slightly above average for my state so cant be mad, I remember I did **** in science and math with a ~20 and got a 28 on reading. Cant remember what I got for English.

I dont think ill retake it, this score seems good enough to get into a decent state school or university.  

Took it a few years ago and got a 30. ACT doesn't really matter much, it seems like colleges look more at GPA nowadays.

Posted by 5hift

The day society realizes standardized testing is not a good way to measure a person's capability to learn...

It's still miles ahead of GPA, which just represents how easy of classes you took/how much of a **** you gave at one point in time.  

Posted by Skill

Took it a few years ago and got a 30. ACT doesn't really matter much, it seems like colleges look more at GPA nowadays.


It's still miles ahead of GPA, which just represents how easy of classes you took/how much of a **** you gave at one point in time.

To be honest extracurricular activities probably give the most insight as to who the good students really are, assuming they also have decent scores/GPA.

As you said, the measurements taken now are pretty flawed. Standardized testing is far too easy in my opinion, and I agree with your statement on GPA.
Other countries with higher ranked education systems do things a lot differently from the US (at least in some instances I haven't checked in to all of them) and I think that's a big part of what makes them better.

(Also not just saying this because I got a bad score on it, I can understand that assumption, but I got a 35 which is actually why I'm dissapointed in this system.)  

Posted by Fulgore

To be honest extracurricular activities probably give the most insight as to who the good students really are, assuming they also have decent scores/GPA.

As you said, the measurements taken now are pretty flawed. Standardized testing is far too easy in my opinion, and I agree with your statement on GPA.
Other countries with higher ranked education systems do things a lot differently from the US (at least in some instances I haven't checked in to all of them) and I think that's a big part of what makes them better.

(Also not just saying this because I got a bad score on it, I can understand that assumption, but I got a 35 which is actually why I'm dissapointed in this system.)

Why no 36? You disappoint me  

Reading section pissed me off. Reading 5 stories in like 20 minutes, plus answering 10 questions each story. Can't even do that with reading questions first then skimming the reading.  

I was forced to take it I got a 17

John Baylor test prep did nothing