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What is the difference between SAT and ACT? Whats the highest score in ACT?

By Candi1657 (Candi1657) on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 11:26 pm: Edit

36. And I think you should consider taking it.

By Shennie (Shennie) on Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 01:51 pm: Edit

The difference between the two tests is that the ACT is really designed to be more of an achievement test rather than a apptitude test. It's format will be much more like the standardized tests that you take in school. It has four sections - Reading, English, Math and Science. You will be scored for each section with 36 being the highest in any section. They then give you a composite score which is the average of your 4 subtests rounded to the nearest whole number. Colleges will not take your highest sub test scores on the ACT. They will look at your highest composite but will not combine scores from different tests.

By Cruella (Cruella) on Saturday, February 07, 2004 - 01:27 am: Edit

Actually WUSTL will combine your scores. When we went on the tour last summer we were told they would take the best scores you had on the ACT and combine them to come up with a higher composite. I wonder how that skews their score in publications that rank colleges?

Ta ta for now, Cruella

By Maemay04 (Maemay04) on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 05:11 pm: Edit

University of Oklahoma and some of the schools in Texas will take the highest area score. and SOME schools only take combined SAT. It's really just school policy. But it doesn't hurt to send all of your score reports even if they say they won't take subscores.