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[quote=Anonymous][quote]t was surprised by her ACT norms - it just goes to show that as a nation there are so many poorly prepared 12th graders.[/quote]

Both the ACT and the SAT are written in such a way that the scores will be spread out over what is essentially a bell curve. They are not the kind of tests in which everyone should be capable of getting 100% of the answers correct.  They are meant to separate out the test takers so colleges have a standard to compare applicants, since GPAs can vary so much from school to school. 
So, the questions are designed so that not everyone will get them all right. If, for some reason, more students began to answer more of the questions correctly, the test writers will readjust the test questions to put in more of a mix that they know will only be answered correctly by a smaller percentage. The idea is to make the test a more useful tool for college admission officers. Only a certain percentage should score in, say, the 700s, a larger percentage in the 600s, and then, a larger still percentage in the 500s. The idea is that there is a midline score that will be achieved by the highest percentage of test-takers, and the test is adjusted for the future if the results begin to vary from that goal. 
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