ACT discussion (Split from Brent thread)

[goodguy]

A 21 ACT is not spectacular, but for an athlete it's better than average. I doubt Josh will have any problems with college classes.

 

[Cincinnatibuck]

A 21 ACT is not spectacular, but for an athlete it's better than average. I doubt Josh will have any problems with college classes.

I must be getting old, because statements like the one in bold above seem to bother me more and more each year. The average ACT score in 2004 for all students across the US was 20.9, which was the highest it had been since 2001 when it was 21 for the five previous years.

 

[sandgk]

I must be getting old, because statements like the one in bold above seem to bother me more and more each year. The average ACT score in 2004 for all students across the US was 20.9, which was the highest it had been since 2001 when it was 21 for the five previous years.

Average ACT score for incoming Freshmen as part of general Student Body at OSU was 26 per Princeton Review. So a 21 is not in line with the average for purely academic entrants. Probably compares favorably with ACT scores for qualifying student athletes at many D-1A schools.
Of course, there is the whole Lake Wobegon side to this, "all our students are above average." Otherwise known as inflation of the test score.

 

[BiGFuNkNaStY]

I must be getting old, because statements like the one in bold above seem to bother me more and more each year. The average ACT score in 2004 for all students across the US was 20.9, which was the highest it had been since 2001 when it was 21 for the five previous years.

The avg. ACT score is always 18. If you do better than 50% of people taking the test you get an 18 or something like that.

 

[DiamondBuck]

The avg. ACT score is always 18. If you do better than 50% of people taking the test you get an 18 or something like that.

Cincinnatibuck is right. The ACT average composite score for "graduates" has fluctuated ever so slightly between 20.8 and 21.1 since 1995-96. I didn't immediately see data for the median composite but it must be nearly the same as the average.

http://www.act.org/news/data.html

Back to Josh.

 

[sandgk]

Cincinnatibuck is right. The ACT average composite score for "graduates" has fluctuated ever so slightly between 20.8 and 21.1 since 1995-96. I didn't immediately see data for the median composite but it must be nearly the same as the average.

http://www.act.org/news/data.html

Back to Josh.

Well, in test taking, with a large statistical sampling like the ACT (over 1.2 Million test takers) it is often the case that the Median (literally the middle value) is itself very close to the Arithmetic Average.

That happens to be the case with the ACT in 2006. 49.3% of takers registered a score of 21 and above, 50.7% a score of 20 or lower.

The most frequent score (mode) was 20.
I certainly hope all this helps Brent with his stats courses :)

 

[CleveBucks]

I must be getting old, because statements like the one in bold above seem to bother me more and more each year. The average ACT score in 2004 for all students across the US was 20.9, which was the highest it had been since 2001 when it was 21 for the five previous years.

The average ACT in OSU's latest freshman class is 26.4, which is a huge jump from even 5-10 years ago and the highest (again) in OSU history.

 

[dozerbuck]

I am pretty sure that the high score of the ACT went up as well!!

 

[goodguy]

I am pretty sure that the high score of the ACT went up as well!!

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