“I’m so bummed that I scored a 25 on the English ACT.” “I can’t believe my ACT Science score is so low!” “I really need a 29 on ACT Math. How can I ever get my 22 up to a 29? That seems impossible.”

Many a standardized testing conundrum could be resolved easily with some simple knowledge: the knowledge of the test’s scale, that is, how a student’s raw score gets scaled to a score on ACT’s 1 through 36 scale. At Academic Approach we live, sleep, eat, and breath test data and minutiae so that we can distill such byzantine knowledge into bite-sized digestible bits for our clients.

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At Academic Approach, we spend our days and nights studying standardized tests—their format, content, grading, scaling, etc.—so we can save you time and distill all this byzantine knowledge down into useful bits. In this post, I will take on ACT format and content.

In the document attached (act-format.pdf) we provide a detailed analysis of ACT format and content, but what’s the bottom line?

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