ACT Score

[JTWood]

It's out of 36 not 32, and 25 is very respectable. The national average is 21, I believe.

[WharfRat]

So I'm guessing ACTs are like SATs? Is there a difference?

[JTWood]

So I'm guessing ACTs are like SATs? Is there a difference?

Yes. The ACTs tend to be used more in the areas not called New England and SoCal where the SAT is more popular.

[WharfRat]

So I'm guessing ACTs are like SATs? Is there a difference?

Yes. The ACTs tend to be used more in the areas not called New England and SoCal where the SAT is more popular.

Ah, I see. In NJ we had SATs, I'd always thought the ACTs were for middle schools. Guess not.

[Spiegs1106]

yeah I am looking to go into buisness.

on the SAT I got a 670 out of 800 in math

on the ACT I got a 29 out of 36 on the math (95% percentile)

[Half Massed]

i heard the act was easier than the sat. i don't think it was in terms of difficulty of the material, but in terms of what's on it, time, etc. i'm sure there's no big difference in difficulty though.

[SaintsOfTheDiamond]

I took the ACT once, got a 28 and that was good enough to get into the schools I was looking at. I pretty much just showed up and took the test. I don't get theses people who spend all this money on classes and books and stuff, that just seems crazy.

FWIW, I think they've really changed both the ACT and SAT a lot in the last couple years, so I'm not sure how comprable some of the older scores are.

[beltrans_boy]

So I'm guessing ACTs are like SATs? Is there a difference?

Yes. The ACTs tend to be used more in the areas not called New England and SoCal where the SAT is more popular.

There are areas not called New England and SoCal?

REALLY?!

Don't lie!

[pokerplaya]

More postin in them here forums should highen them vocabulary scores.

[WharfRat]

I took the ACT once, got a 28 and that was good enough to get into the schools I was looking at. I pretty much just showed up and took the test. I don't get theses people who spend all this money on classes and books and stuff, that just seems crazy.

FWIW, I think they've really changed both the ACT and SAT a lot in the last couple years, so I'm not sure how comprable some of the older scores are.

I never got the crazy classes for mucho dinero either. Most of the kids I went to high school with who paid all that money for the Princeton Review, etc, didnt score any higher than they would have otherwise. And some of the highest-scoring kids did what you did, just took it once. As for myself, I took the SATs once, completely hungover after 4 hours of sleep, and got a 1510 (out of 1600). I think some people are just better at standardized tests than others, since I was a piss-poor student.