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In the two decades between 1998 and 2018, the number of perfect scores on the ACT increased 34x from .01% to .34%. Have students preparing to enter college suddenly become 34 times smarter? Unlikely This explosion in perfect test scores is chronicled in an article on the PrepMaven site: These are still very low numbers – in 2021, only 4,055 students taking the ACT earned a perfect score. However, the percentage of students getting a 36 on the ACT has gone from less than 0.01% to 0.34% in 2020! (There’s a small dip for 2021, which we can likely attribute to the Covid-19 pandemic.) The makers of the ACT have assured us that this isn’t because the test is getting easier! Rather, our hypothesis is that the rise in students getting perfect scores is because more high-achieving SAT “superstars” are now also taking the ACT, whereas before they would have only taken the SAT.." Plausible? SAT superstars migrating to the ACT? Perhaps. In another treatment of the subject, Hannah K. Sparlin...

In the two decades between 1998 and 2018, the number of perfect scores on the ACT increased 34x from .01% to .34%. Have students preparing to enter college suddenly become 34 times smarter? Unlikely This explosion in perfect test scores is chronicled in an article on the PrepMaven site: These are still very low numbers – in 2021, only 4,055 students taking the ACT earned a perfect score. However, the percentage of students getting a 36 on the ACT has gone from less than 0.01% to 0.34% in 2020! (There’s a small dip for 2021, which we can likely attribute to the Covid-19 pandemic.) The makers of the ACT have assured us that this isn’t because the test is getting easier! Rather, our hypothesis is that the rise in students getting perfect scores is because more high-achieving SAT “superstars” are now also taking the ACT, whereas before they would have only taken the SAT.." Plausible? SAT superstars migrating to the ACT? Perhaps. In another treatment of the subject, Hannah K. Sparlin...

In the two decades between 1998 and 2018, the number of perfect scores on the ACT increased 34x from .01% to .34%. Have students preparing to enter college suddenly become 34 times smarter? Unlikely This explosion in perfect test scores is chronicled in an article on the PrepMaven site: These are still very low numbers – in 2021, only 4,055 students taking the ACT earned a perfect score. However, the percentage of students getting a 36 on the ACT has gone from less than 0.01% to 0.34% in 2020! (There’s a small dip for 2021, which we can likely attribute to the Covid-19 pandemic.) The makers of the ACT have assured us that this isn’t because the test is getting easier! Rather, our hypothesis is that the rise in students getting perfect scores is because more high-achieving SAT “superstars” are now also taking the ACT, whereas before they would have only taken the SAT.." Plausible? SAT superstars migrating to the ACT? Perhaps. In another treatment of the subject, Hannah K. Sparlin...