How Many Questions Can You Miss for a Perfect ACT score

Sohow many questions can you miss for a perfect ACT score? You can get up to five questions wrong on the ACT (or skip them—the test doesnt deduct points in either case, so they count the same towards your score) and still get a perfect score of 36. That statement, though, has to be heavily qualified! For instance, those five questions? Theyd have to be in precise categories/sections of the exam for you to still get a 36. So, actually, there are only handful of scenarios in which you could miss these questions and still get that top score. And Im sure youre wondering by now: Just what might these scenarios look like? Lets take a brief overview of them before looking at strategies to help you get that perfect score and what a 36 is really worth. How Many Questions Can You Miss For a Perfect ACT Score? ACT Test SectionScenario 1: Maximum Wrong Answers by SectionScenario 2: Maximum Wrong Answers by SectionScenario 3: Maximum Wrong Answers by SectionScenario 00 out of the 1.8 million students who took the ACT in last year’s graduating class got a perfect score. So it’s possible, but don’t beat yourself up over it. A perfect 36 is a cool thing, but it isnt the end-all, be-all of ACT scores. Nevertheless, following these tips hopefully will help you increase your odds of a perfect scoreor at least get you a little bit closer. And, as a bonus, someday you will make an amazing ACT tutor. 🙂 For even more tips to get that perfect (or very high) score, Magooshs ACT expert, Kristin, has some advice: Video: How to Get a Perfect Score on the ACT ACT Expert, Kristin Fracchia, shows you how to get a perfect score on the ACT in English, Math, Reading, Science and Writing in this video from Magoosh. The Final Final Answer All in all: if you want to get a perfect score on the ACT, youre better off studying than worrying about how many questions you can get wrong and still achieve that score. However, if you must know: you can get between three and five questions wrong and still get a perfect score on the ACT, depending on the category in which you get them wrong. PS For those of you confused about how the 1-36 ACT score works—after all, there arent exactly 36 questions in any section—we explain it a little more here.