What was your ACT score?

[madison2000]

[madison2000]

1. we got some mighty smart people on this board

or some misoverestimators!

[SheilaT]

2. I took it a year early

because I was planning on graduating high school after three years. And only once. These days many kids take it several times.

[LiberallyInclined]

19. i also only took it once- and i don't think prep classes were around then.

the way they "teach to the test" these days, i don't see how the tests can be taken at all seriously, or how kids actually "learn".

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. never had a chance to go to college...can tell you my GED score though. nt

[deadparrot]

4. 31. nt

[madison2000]

5. you're my brain match

for what its worth

[LDS Jock]

27. I had a 31 also

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. What is the correlation between ACT and SAT scores?

you know like a 26 would be equivalent to ? on SAT. I only took the ACT's once and I think I scored a 25 or 26...I got an 1130 on SAT's. What would be considered a better score?

[LDS Jock]

28. score comparisons on this site

http://www.collegeboard.com/sat/cbsenior/html/stat00f.html

2000 SAT I-ACT Score Comparisons
Archives
National Reports



SAT I to ACT:
Recentered SAT I Score
Verbal+Math ACT Composite Score
1600 36
1560-1590 35
1510-1550 34
1460-1500 33
1410-1450 32
1360-1400 31

1320-1350 30
1280-1310 29
1240-1270 28
1210-1230 27
1170-1200 26

1130-1160 25
1090-1120 24
1060-1080 23
1020-1050 22
980-1010 21

940-970 20
900-930 19
860-890 18
810-850 17
760-800 16

710-750 15
660-700 14
590-650 13
520-580 12
500-510 11

ACT to SAT I:
ACT Composite Score Recentered SAT I Score
Verbal+Math
36 1600
35 1580
34 1520
33 1470
32 1420
31 1380

30 1340
29 1300
28 1260
27 1220
26 1180

25 1140
24 1110
23 1070
22 1030
21 990

20 950
19 910
18 870
17 830
16 780

15 740
14 680
13 620
12 560
11 500

[Reverend_Smitty]

29. Ah thank you!

I guess I did better on my ACT's then

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. Kids only took the SAT where I came from. n/t

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

8. 26

31 on the reading/writing section or whatever it was. The only reason for the 26 was that I totally bombed the science portion (22). But I got a 1330 on my SAT... so it's okay :D

[RawMaterials]

16. I was the opposite

great on science and math, and bad on the reading /writing section.
But i have learning disability's in reading/writing. more so the writing,
But for what its worth the 28 i got on the act helped make up for my low cum. I did better my Sr and Jr year but wasn't motivated as a freshman and soph.

[AngryAmish]

20. Great on science

In fact a perfect score. Half the section was about geology on Mars. Earlier in the week there was a 2 hour Nova special on Martian geology so it worked out ok.

Math not so good.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

31. My son loves Blues Clues!

:)

[elperromagico]

9. 28. And so, I went to a college

that only required a 19 for admission...

So, I'm not so smart after all. :D

[EC]

10. Don't remember exact score

but I did get a letter from the school saying I scored in the top 15% of all that had taken it nationwide and a congrats and looking forward to having you enrolled, blah, blah, blah.....

[jpgray]

11. 32. And I fell asleep during the math portion

Because I had to take the damn thing in Holdingford, having signed up about a week before the test.

:dunce:

My brother got a 35. I kicked his ass on the PSAT we had to do, though.

[ulysses]

12. 29.

I do standardized tests well. Lucky me. :shrug:

[Nikia]

13. Took the SAT to be different

Well that and I applied to 2 colleges out East, where over 90% of the students submitted SATs instead of ACT. I think that I was the only one who took the SAT at my school in my class. It was nice not to compare my scores to theirs.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. 32

[TheMightyFavog]

15. Entered college at age 21.

ACT Not required.

[Left Is Write]

17. It was not 29-31, nor was it over 32.

So I can't answer. :)

It was exactly 32.

[LiberallyInclined]

18. 32. in 1977, when a 32 was a 32.

as i understand it, they've revised the test and the scoring since way back then.

i was in the 99th percentile across the board
my math was perfect, and my english was my low with a 29(but it proficienced me out of u of i's rhet requirement).

I was also a heavy stoner at the time, so it REALLY cheesed off the principal, and shocked my fellow students at our small lutheran high school. when the high test scores were mentioned at an assembly, mine drew an audible gasp...boy that felt good.

btw- how am i supposed to answer the poll question?

[SheilaT]

22. The ACT scores have not been re-normed.

The SAT scores were in the early or mid-90's, and now with the new writing section, it'll be different.

When I took the SAT they gave three digit scores: I got a 664 verbal and 633 math. That put me in the 99th percentile for both scores, according to the little booklet that I still have. At some point they started making all the scores end in a 5 or 0, and now they all end in 0. Which strikes me as being less interesting and less precise.

[LiberallyInclined]

30. The ACT test "changed" in 1989...

a couple years ago i decided to take a couple of art classes at a state university a few blocks from my home. I had to go thru the regular admissions process, and the admissions guy i ended up speaking with told me that a 32 back when i took it meant more than getting the same score today.

Mensa does not allow ACT scores on tests taken after 1989 for admission, while a pre-1989 score of 29 will get you in-

http://felix.unife.it/Root/d-Mensa-files/t-Mensa-test-scores

ACT: American College Testing Program. We will take scores for
tests administered prior to the date of Oct. 1989. ACT states it
is now content oriented. As of that date, the test is no longer
acceptable, as the content changed from aptitude to subject
mastery, which Mensa does not accept.

http://www.us.mensa.org/join_mensa/testscores.php3

ACT Composite
prior to 9/89 29
effective 9/89 N/A

and the triplenine society changed it's ACT qualifying score post 1989 as well-("triplenine" refers to being in the 99.9th percentile of qualifying tests)

http://www.triplenine.org/main/admission.asp

American College Testing Program (ACT)
(taken prior to October 1989) 32
American College Testing Program (ACT)
(taken October 1989 or later) 34

[SheilaT]

32. The top score has always been 36.

So I'm not sure how it could mean anything any different today than it used to. And the ACT was always content oriented: The four parts I got scores in were English, Math, Social Science, and Natural Science.

My ACT booklet has five different charts of the scores so you can compare yourself with all high school seniors who took the test, and type I, II, III and IV college freshmen who took the test. The school types range from junior colleges to the most academically selective schools, so.

I think the admissions guy at your local state university simply didn't know what he was talking about. I also know people who are under the impression that the SAT has been re-normed more or less continually, and that's not true. But the re-norming of that test does mean that my combined score of 1297 was much better than the same score (we'll round it up to 1300) is today. Also, back then no one seemed to report or consider the scores as the combined number. The booklet I have never looks at combined scores but always talks about the scores on the two different tests. It also includes information on the achievement tests, now known as SAT II.

The tripline society also apparently doesn't take SAT scores prior to the renorming of 1995. But all they'd have to do is find out what the equivalent scores were back then.

Another really crucial point is that the vast majority of high school students take either the SAT or the ACT these days, compared to 40 or more years ago when only the smaller percentage who were actually planning to go to college bothered to take them. And then they only took them once, not multiple times.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. too old to remember

I just know I scored high enough that I would get automatic admission to all the Board of Regents colleges in Ky and Tennessee...which would have been all the state schools except Univ of Kentucky and Univ of Tennessee which were the land grant schools and required the SAT

Hey, it was 1966 and I slept since then. But I know it was over 19 because 19 was the minimum for the Board of Regents colleges.

I know I did 99 percentile on the reading/comprehension, etc stuff and sucked at the math because that is what I always do.

I took the SAT for scholarship competition, and the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test which back then was a separate test and was a really hard test.

My guidance counselor said my SAT was really good, but I know it was skewed because of the math but my writtens were good there too.

And I went to a college which didn't require any of them at the time, in one of life's little ironies.

[MercutioATC]

23. Never took the ACT. Got a 1320 on my SAT, though...

680 verbal/640 math.

[eyepaddle]

24. Aside from this thread

you never really here talk about the ACT--it's always the SAT. I don't even personally know anybody who took the SAT. Does anybody know the numbers of each that are taken each year?

Oh yeah I got a 30. Tanked the math section though--they reccomended remedial work. Why did I decide to major in a science? As they say; I never took Calc 2--but i took Calc 1 two times! ;)

I had a much more balanced score when I took the GRE last year. My math was pretty respectable this time.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Never took it; 1480 on the SAT.

(n/t)

[Kire]

26. What's the ACT?

America Coming Together?

[rbnyc]

33. 32

I only took the test once, and my dad went into the hospital the night before so I had no sleep. I could have done better, but my life was pretty complicated so I didn't re-take them. 32 was good enough.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. 36

I had a 790/720 on the SAT too. I don't know why i took both. Must have been something my parents wanted.
The Professor

[LDS Jock]

35. 36, while blindfolded and smoking a cigarette

I also scored a perfect 1600 on my SATs, which I took in Latin.

[kick-ass-bob]

37. Ha! I got an 1800 on my SATs!

They had hidden questions for the really smart ones!

:7

[LDS Jock]

38. whose paper did you cheat off of then?

tell us your real score bobbie.. I told mine above. I only posted the smart ass one to make fun of some other posts. I'm a horrible person.

[kick-ass-bob]

41. real SAT score:

Back before they "renormed" it:
1190. 680 math 510 verbal.

anyone taken the GREs?

[Worst Username Ever]

36. State-by-state comparisons of SAT scores here

http://www.collegeboard.com/about/news_info/cbsenior/yr2004/reports.html

Click on a report and go to page 4. Example:

Minnesota 587 Verbal 593 Math
West Virginia 524 Verbal 593 Math

New York 497 Verbal 510 Math
Texas 493 Verbal 499 Math

Big surprise there.

[kick-ass-bob]

39. There is a bias when comparing ACT dominated states

with SAT (eastern) states. The kids going to "Eastern" universities from ACT states had/have to take the SAT , who would be more likely to travel out of state for schooling.
Probably the inverse is true as well, I would guess.

[LDS Jock]

42. you'll find too

that many states with few students taking the SAT will have higher than normal scores, while those with lots of students taking it have lower scores. This is also true of ACT results, but the states are reversed. Bob is right, one test alone is to slanted.

[Blue-Jay]

40. 30-something in 1984

It seemed to me that most of it was reading comprehension bullshit.

Still, it was good for a scholarship.