only got a 22. It gets me where I need to go, but apparently 62% of the USA get a score of 22 or lower. Why am I always average? And they also say that my Math needs work, but if I was using a calculator that was actually useful, I'm sure I would have done a little better. And I guess they don't know what they're talking about, considering I managed to get an 86 or so in my College Math Class
What's this? A chance for me to brag about my ACT scores? Well then-nah, never mind. Don't fret, a 22 may be average, but it's like...the higher end of the average spectrum. Either that or I just have stupid friends...which is likely.
That's not bad at all. A good score is right around 19-21. Being average is not a bad thing, and you'll still have a chance of getting into a 4 year school. I got 23 the first time and a 28 the second time. I still haven't gone to college yet though because I had a bad grade point average because I was lazy and I haven't really been motivated to try. If you have decent or good grades and a score of 22, you should be fine.
man, remind me never to go up against you in any kind of contest involving smarts. I think I'd lose pretty quickly. Although, I can never think of things fast anyways, so any kind of thing I'd lose at if it involved work like math and stuff. Maybe puzzles and stuff I can get, but other than that, nope. In the pre-ACT book I was using, they said if you didn't like your score you can take one again, but I'm not sure I want to go through the trouble of taking another ACT.
Having smarts isn't the most important thing. Having a good work ethic is. If you work hard, you can succeed just as easily, and even more easily than an intelligent, creative person who doesn't work hard. School isn't as much of a learning institution as it is a training ground for life.
I don't work hard, but I do know that if I need to get something done, I'll do it. Kinda like school, I don't enjoy it, and what I'm doing right now may kinda contradict this, but I know that I need to get it done, so I just do it.
And yet, would life be like school if schools did not raise you to think of life that way? There is no set amount of work that must be done to survive in society; it is based on what everyone accepts as standard, not some overarching 'nature' to work versus play. Society's structure and the amount of work needed is shaped by the work ethic of each successive generation. If those work ethics are nurtured in schools, then are they preparing you for life, or are they standardizing that lifestyle using you and your classmates as a proxy?
my little brother got his act today and got a 19. it would have been higher if his science score wasn't as low compared to his other scores. i'm still proud of him though.
I probably would have done much worse on science if it wasn't organized the way it was. I've done science a few different ways in things like that. Like the Iowa Testing I've done before had some strange things they did with the science portion.
when I took the ACT back in high school, i remember it being the only portion that wasn't common sense. i expected it though, so i studied some **** about it and got an overall score in the mid-20s.
You know, I basically went in there with no knowledge for the most part about what I was doing, since the Pre-ACT book pretty much told me to do stuff that I've been doing my whole life. It's always the writing and english I find easy though. No idea why.
I almost fell asleep during the science portion of the ACT, hah. My other scores (think it's just Math and English?) were high, but I think I got around 70% on the science part.
