Horace Mann High School
News and Notes
Parent Information
On the 27th we will do our best to provide the best testing environment. Only juniors will be in the building and they will be provided with breakfast before the assessment and a snack at break. Upon completion of the assessment students will have the opportunity to eat lunch or leave for the remainder of the day. We do this as we know it's a long morning of testing for our students.
ACT February 27th and 28th
What You Need to Know About ACT and How it’s Scored
What You Need to Know About ACT and How it’s Scored
There are four main sections to this test: Reading, English, Math, and Science resulting in a Composite score. You’ll also take the Essay portion but that doesn’t get figured into the composite.
This test is offered nationally six times per year. Some states like Wisconsin have adopted it as the measure of student achievement in 11th grade so ALL 11th graders in Wisconsin get to take this test for free.
There are four main sections to this test: Reading, English, Math, and Science resulting in a Composite score. You’ll also take the Essay portion but that doesn’t get figured into the composite.
What You Need to Know About ACT and How it’s Scored
Scores range from a low of 1 to a high of 36 but getting a 1 would be extremely difficult. Why??? Because on the Reading, Science and English sections you have a 1 in 4 chance and in math a 1 in 5 chance of guessing the correct answer. So even if you only guess at every answer on this test, you would still get a score in the 9-12 range. You’d have to deliberately pick the wrong answers to get a score of 1. It would be easier to score a 1 by leaving the answer document blank.
What You Need to Know About ACT and How it’s Scored
50% of people taking the ACT score between 17-23, making this the most common score range
20% of people score between 1-16
30% of people score between 24-36
Profile of Scorers:
Below 17: these people don’t answer a lot of questions correctly, don’t finish the test, and don’t guess at the ones they didn’t get to
Above 24: these people finish all or most of the questions and guess on the ones they didn’t get to, and most importantly they get few questions wrong
Average Joe’s (17-23): these people do small parts of the test very well but run out of time & guess on more than half of it or they finish the entire test (or close to it) but move too quickly causing careless errors & guessing a lot.