ACT Score Range 16-19

Students who score in the range 16-19 are likely to know and to be able to do:

English

Students can identify the basic purpose or role of a specified phrase or sentence. They are able to select the most logical place to add a sentence in a paragraph and delete illogical conjunctive adverbs and irrelevant, redundant, and wordy materials. They revise expressions that violate the essay's tone and correct glaringly inappropriate shifts in verb tense or voice. Students are able to use punctuation or conjunctions to coordinate uncomplicated sentences and to avoid awkward-sounding fused sentences or sentence fragments. They solve such basic grammatical problems as whether to use an adverb or an adjective form; they know how to form comparative and superlative adjectives, how to ensure straightforward subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement, and when to use the contraction it's. They can provide appropriate punctuation in straightforward situations (e.g., items in a series) and can delete commas that disturb the sentence flow.

Reading

Students can exhibit a basic understanding of uncomplicated literary narratives. They are able to draw simple conclusions and make simple generalizations about the main points and characters; they are able to identify relationships between principal characters and to identify details that are important to a story. In uncomplicated informational passages, they are able to locate simple details at the sentence and paragraph level. These students are beginning to develop the reasoning skills that will enable them to answer more complex questions and comprehend more challenging passages.

 

Mathematics

Students can solve routine one-step and two-step arithmetic problems, single-step percent problems, and straightforward average problems; recognize one-digit factors of a number; and identify a digit's place value. In probability, statistics, and data analysis, these students can perform computations on data from tables and graphs and determine the probability of the complement of an event. In algebra, they can combine two like terms (e.g., 2x + 5x); substitute whole numbers for unknown quantities to evaluate expressions; and solve one-step equations having whole number or decimal answers. In coordinate geometry, they can locate points on the number line and in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane. In geometry, they can compute the perimeter of polygons when all side lengths are given and compute the area of rectangles when whole number dimensions are given.

Science Reasoning

Students can select a single data point from a table and identify the basic features of a table or graph (e.g., headings, units of measurement, axis labels). They can also understand basic scientific terminology and find pertinent information in a brief body of text. When working with data, they can compare two data points within one variable. They can identify a direct relationship between two variables.

Used with permission of ACT from "ACT, Information for Life's Transitions, Standards for Transitions: Descriptions of the Skills and Knowledge Associated with PLAN and ACT Assessment Scores", c1998




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