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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids find the ACT easier.[/quote]

+ 1.  ACT is much easier.  In fact, what I heard is non-intellectual students submits ACT because they cannot get a high SAT score.[/quote]

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An admissions officer at a college in the 20-40 range.[/quote]

This is an absurd statement...there are concordance tables that map SAT to ACT scores...and each score is tied to percentiles.  So, even if one test is "easier"--and there is no evidence that that is the case--colleges are going to look at the percentiles that are associated with the scores.  Unless someone is suggesting that the 95th percentilae of SAT scores means something different than the 95th percentile of ACTs...but even that is absurd because they are nationalized percentiles.[/quote]

There are various concordance tables published and they aren’t uniform.[/quote]

But there are official concordance tables done by the ACT & SAT.  I'm not claiming that some kids don't do better on one vs the other...I'm saying the statement "ACT is much easier so nonintellectual students take it" is an absurd statement. Both tests have scores that are normally distributed so the score that corresponds to the xth percentile of one is similar to the score that corresponds to the same percentile on the other.  It's not rocket science.

You'll find other threads on this website that talk about how all the SAT scores are inflated because of all the UMC kids who get accommodations (apparently it's harder to get accommodations for the ACT)....take everything you read on this website with a shovelfull of salt.[/quote]

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