Can someone help me understand the ACT Reading Score Chart? I'm a bit confused. What kind of raw score should I be aiming to get a decent scaled score?
Sure, happy to help clarify this for you. ACT Reading section contains 40 questions. To understand how your raw score (the number of correct answers you give) translates to a scaled score (the score within a 1-36 range), you need to refer to the ACT score conversion chart, which varies slightly from test to test.
To get a rough idea, scoring around 30 correct answers typically equates to a scaled score of about 26, which is roughly the average score students received on the ACT Reading section in 2020. To aim for a top-tier score of 30+ on the ACT Reading section, you would need a raw score of around 35-36 correct answers.
Yet, the exact conversion depends on the specific ACT test and its difficulty level. A 'harder' test will have a more lenient raw-to-scaled conversion, while an 'easier' test will have a stricter conversion.
Remember, practice and review are the keys to improvement. You could try out timed practice sections, and afterwards, carefully review your answers and the explanations for the ones you missed to better understand the kind of questions you're struggling with.
I hope this answers your question! If you have further doubts, feel free to ask. Good luck with your test prep!
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