2007-07-20 15:21:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Nothing--they will just take the highest and base your admission and scholarships off of whichever one is higher.
2007-07-20 15:23:42 · answer #1 · answered by FaZizzle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The preference for one test over the other varies in different parts of the country-- if you were educated in a section of the country where the preference is for ACT scores, it makes sense that you were better prepared for the ACT. Since that is the test on which you did the best, you'll want to consider applying at schools where most of the other students also took the ACT. Keep in mind, these tests only measure your potential to do well in school; colleges are also interested in your track record, namely, your GPA, extra activities, advanced classes, etc.
2007-07-21 02:23:43 · answer #2 · answered by jc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on which school you choose. Every college doesn't want the ACT, or the SAT, some go by only one, some go by both, It just depends. They are two different tests, in no way related to IQ, and the worst I see happening with that is you get asked why YOU THINK you did better on one than the other. Good Luck in school!
2007-07-20 22:41:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ACT and SAT test are totally different test and are meant to test you in different ways. Not to mention they are scored differently.
A 2300 on an SAT test does necessarily equal to 34 or 35 on the ACT test. It just differs depending on the people who took the test. Its based on percentile so both cant be compared together since its based on the people who took that test.
Example:
I took the SAT test and got the highest score out of 1million test takers (this is the number of people that took the same test) and I scored 100 percentile since im the highest but the truth is i only got half of the answers right on that test. Now a year later on a different test, say out of 2million test takers of test #2, person A scored the highest for test #2. Person A receives 100 percentile and his/her true score is 99% of his answers in the test he got correctly. Now, another person, person b, scored an 80 percentile on test #2 which means he scored higher than 80% of the people that took that same test. Does this mean that im smarter than person b because he scored only in the 80 percentile?
the answer is not necessarily. person b could have gotten 95% of his answers correctly and i only got 50% of my answers correctly on the first test.
Its like this...... if you take 1million of the dumbest person on earth and one average person and have them take the SAT or ACT test and of course the average person received the highest score thus granting him a 100 percentile. Now they changed the test and made a certain amount of really really genious students to take the ACT or SAT test and the person that received the lowest percentile is say..... person X.
Does that mean that the average person is smarter than person x? nope because he was just testing with the smartest people on earth and apparently he's the dumbest of all those people.
2007-07-20 23:13:04 · answer #4 · answered by PinoyPlaya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not every college accepts the ACT, so you may not have much of a chance at those who don't, but for those who do, they will just ignore the one on which you did poorly.
2007-07-20 22:57:29 · answer #5 · answered by neniaf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They'll think you cheated on you ACTs. Face it, you're doomed for community college.
2007-07-20 22:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by thelegendmstr 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋