2019l2020 Using Your ACT Results What’s Inside • Understanding Your Scores 3 • Reporting Your Scores to Colleges 6 • Planning Your Education and Career 6 • Should You Test Again? 8 • ACT Services and Policies 9 For more information, see www.actstudent.org Esta publicación también se puede ver o descargar en español. While the information in Using Your ACT Results is also provided on the Student Score Report, this document provides a convenient reference for your score report on the following topics: • Your Composite score and scores for each subject, including the writing test if you took it. • Your scores on the combined STEM and ELA indicators. • Your scores in relation to the ACT College Readiness Benchmark and the Readiness Range for each subject test. • Your scores in comparison to scores of other students who took the ACT in the US and in your state. • Detailed results for each reporting category within each subject you took. • Your Progress Toward the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate® indicator. • Sending your scores to colleges. • Using your scores for college and career planning. • Whether you should retest based on your current ACT scores. • ACT services and policies related to taking the test and how we scored your test. 2 Understanding Your Scores Here’s some information about the main graphic on your score report. ANN C TAYLOR (ACT ID: -54116290) WHEAT RIDGE SR HIGH SCHOOL (061-450) TEST DATE: APRIL 2020 Student Report 21 19 24 19 18 24 23 08 Your Score COMPOSITE MATH SCIENCE STEM ENGLISH READING WRITING ELA Your Score 36 Your Score Range ACT College Readiness 30 Benchmarks The 26 Readiness Benchmark writing test If your score is at or above the 24 scores range 23 Benchmark, you have at least 22 22 from 2–12. 20 a 50% chance of obtaining a B or higher or about a 75% 18 18 chance of obtaining a C or higher in specific first-year college courses in the 12 corresponding subject area. There is currently no Benchmark for writing. 6 Your Score Range Test scores are estimates of your educational 1 development. Think of your Your STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) score Your ELA (English Language Arts) score represents your overall true achievement on this test represents your overall performance on the science and math tests. performance on the English, reading, and writing tests. as being within a range that extends about one standard error of measurement, or US Rank State Rank about 1 point for the Composite and writing scores, and 2 points for STEM, ELA, Composite 56% Composite 58% and the other test scores, above and below your score. Math 49% Math 52% US & State Rank Science 33% Science 34% Your ranks tell you the approximate percentages of STEM 43% STEM 46% recent high school graduates in the US and your state who English 74% English 75% took the ACT® test and received scores that are the Reading 66% Reading 68% same as or lower than your Writing 90% Writing 91% scores. For example, a rank of 56 for your Composite score ELA 82% ELA 84% means 56% of students 0 50% 100% 0 50% 100% earned that Composite score or below. Detailed Results We counted your correct answers on each subject test. We didn’t take off points for wrong MATH 19 ENGLISH 24 answers. Then, we converted your numberACT Readiness of correct Range answers into a score that ranges from ACT Readiness Range Preparing for Higher Math 22 of 35 63% ✔ Production of Writing 16 of 23 70% ✔ 1 to 36. We call these subject test scores. Your Composite score is the average of your four • Number & Quantity 5 of 5 100% ✔ Knowledge of Language 8 of 12 67% ✔ multiple-choice• Algebra subject5 of test 8 63% scores, rounded to the nearestConventions whole of number.29 If of 40 you73% left any test ✔ ✔ Standard English completely• Functions blank, that 6score of 8 75% is reported as two dashes and no Composite score is computed. • Geometry 4 of 8 50% READING 23 • Statistics & Probability 2 of 6 33% Key Ideas & Details 18 of 24 75% ✔ Integrating Essential Skills 11 of 25 44% Craft & Structure 6 of 11 55% Modeling 9 of 22 41% Integration of 3 of 5 60% ✔ Knowledge & Ideas SCIENCE 18 Understanding Complex Texts Interpretation of Data 9 of 16 56% Below Proficient Above Scientific Investigation 7 of 10 70% ✔ Evaluation of 5 of 14 36% WRITING Models, Inferences & 08 Experimental Results Ideas & Analysis 8 Development & Support 8 Organization 9 Language Use & 8 Conventions 3 ANN C TAYLOR (ACT ID: -54116290) WHEAT RIDGE SR HIGH SCHOOL (061-450) TEST DATE: APRIL 2020 Student Report 21 19 24 19 18 24 23 08 Your Score COMPOSITE MATH SCIENCE STEM ENGLISH READING WRITING ELA Your Score 36 Your Score Range ACT College Readiness 30 Benchmarks The 26 Readiness Benchmark writing test If your score is at or above the 24 scores range 23 Benchmark, you have at least 22 22 from 2–12. 20 a 50% chance of obtaining a B or higher or about a 75% 18 18 chance of obtaining a C or higher in specific first-year college courses in the 12 corresponding subject area. There is currently no Benchmark for writing. 6 Your Score Range Test scores are estimates of your educational 1 development. Think of your Your STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) score Your ELA (English Language Arts) score represents your overall true achievement on this test represents your overall performance on the science and math tests. performance on the English, reading, and writing tests. as being within a range that extends about one standard error of measurement, or US Rank State Rank about 1 point for the Composite and writing scores, and 2 points for STEM, ELA, Composite 56% Composite 58% and the other test scores, above and below your score. Math 49% Math 52% US & State Rank Science 33% Science 34% Your ranks tell you the approximate percentages of STEM 43% STEM 46% recent high school graduates in the US and your state who English 74% English 75% took the ACT® test and received scores that are the Reading 66% Reading 68% same as or lower than your Writing 90% Writing 91% scores. For example, a rank of 56 for your Composite score ELA 82% ELA 84% means 56% of students 0 50% 100% 0 50% 100% earned that Composite score or below. UnderstandING YOUR SCORES Detailed Results MATH 19 ACT Readiness Range ENGLISH 24 ACT Readiness Range Preparing for Higher Math 22 of 35 63% ✔ ForProduction the subject of Writing test, Composite,16 of 23 writing,70% STEM, and ELA scores,✔ you’ll notice that your score • Number & Quantity 5 of 5 100% ✔ reportKnowledge shows of Languagethe specific line8 of 12 (thicker67% on the graphic) of your score,✔ and it also shows a shaded • Algebra 5 of 8 63% areaConventions around ofthis line. This29 isof 40 your73% Score Range. Test scores are✔ estimates of your educational Standard English • Functions 6 of 8 75% ✔ development. Think of your achievement on these tests as being within a range that extends about 1 point for the Composite score and the writing test and 2 points for STEM, ELA, and the • Geometry 4 of 8 50% READING 23 subject test scores. The shaded areas represent this range for each score. • Statistics & Probability 2 of 6 33% Key Ideas & Details 18 of 24 75% ✔ Integrating Essential Skills 11 of 25 44% TheCraft writing & Structure test is graded 6by of 11 two55% raters who score your essay on a scale of 1 to 6 in each of the Modeling 9 of 22 41% fourIntegration writing of domains. Each3 ofof 5 these60% domains represents essential✔ skills and abilities that are necessaryKnowledge to & Ideasmeet the writing demands of college and career. Your domain scores (shown SCIENCE 18 belowUnderstanding the main Complex graphic), Texts ranging from 2 to 12, are a sum of the two raters’ scores. Your writing Interpretation of Data 9 of 16 56% Below Proficient Above score is the average of your four domain scores rounded to the nearest whole number. Scientific Investigation 7 of 10 70% ✔ Evaluation of 5 of 14 36% WRITING Models, Inferences & 08 Experimental Results Ideas & Analysis 8 Development & Support 8 Organization 9 Language Use & 8 Conventions To learn more about what your writing scores mean, visit www.act.org/the-act/writing- scores. Your STEM and ELA scores represent your overall performance on the specific subject tests you took. The STEM score looks at the science and mathematics tests to produce a combined score, and the ELA does the same for the English, reading, and writing tests. If you didn’t receive a score for one of the subject areas, no STEM or ELA score will be produced. The main graphic on your score report also shows how your scores relate to the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks for each multiple-choice subject (and also for the STEM and ELA scores). If your score for a test was above or equal to the Benchmark, it means you have a 50% chance of obtaining a B or higher, or about a 75% chance of obtaining a C or higher in specific first-year college courses in the corresponding subject area. There is currently no Benchmark for writing. Finally, you’ll see a section about your US and State ranks for the different subject tests, as well as the Composite, ELA, and STEM scores. Your ranks tell you the approximate percentages of recent high school graduates in the US and your state who took the ACT and received scores that are the same as or lower than your scores.