Student Performance Analysis     Student Information           Name: Doe, John         Grade: 11         School: Anytown School District         Date: 2002-08-27       This report provides help in identifying areas for improvement before you take your national ACT's. As a guide, your SAT test results have been compared to the scores received by students with grade point averages (GPA) similar to yours. Use the results of this analysis to help focus your preparation efforts.       I. Overall Performance ACT based on GPA*: 24 Your English ACT: 22 Your Math ACT: 25 Your Reading ACT: 24 Your Science ACT: 23 Your ACT Score: 24 36- 0-   24   22     25     24     23     24       *ACT/GPA   Eng   Math   Rdg   Sci   ACT         Your score was somewhat lower than the average SAT score of students with high school grade point averages similar to yours. This difference provides good room for improvement.   II. English Grammar: 24 Punctuation: 17 Sentence Structure: 22 36- 0-     24     17     22       Gram   Punc   S Str         Your results suggest that you may have the most room for improvement in Punctuation and Sent. Structure/Rhetoric.        Refresh your understanding of rules of punctuation, particularly those related to the proper use of commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, hypens, apostrophes, exclamation points and question marks.    To do better with sentence structure questions, look more carefully at the relationship between dependent and independent clauses, sentence fragments, and overall writing strategy, organization, and style.     III. Math Algebra: 17 Equations: 24 Exponents: 1 Fractions: 36 Geometry: 30 Story Problems: 29 36- 0-   17     24     1     36     30     29       Alg   Eq   Exp   Fra   Geo   Story         Your results suggest that you may have the most room for improvement in Exponents and Algebra.        Refresh your understanding of rules related to exponents. this includes adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing exponents, working with negative exponents, and using scientific notation.    Practice and improve your understanding of the Algebra areas of the test. These areas include order of operations, signed and absolute values, roots and radicals, evaluations of algebraic expressions, and factoring monomials and polynomials.     II. Reading & Science Reading: 24 Data Representation: 24 Research Summaries: 27 Conflicting Vwpts: 20 36- 0-     24     24     27     20       Rdg   D Rep   R Sum   C View         Your results suggest that you may have the most room for improvement in Conflicting Viewpoints and Data Representation.        To do well on Conflicting Viewpoint problems, you need to identify the differences between each viewpoint and what evidence the presenter uses to justify their position.    You can improve your score on the Data Representation portion by practicing how to read all of the information included on charts, graphs, etc as well as recognizing the trends in the data presented.     IV. What to do next.     Your high school grade point average is the best predictor of your college success and also represents a good way to identify areas of improvement in your study for the ACT. Based on your performance on this ACT, your results suggest that you will make the most progress if you use the following College Powerprep software training units:       ACT VocabMaster, ACT Test Strategies     Sent. Structure/Rhetoric, Grammar     Algebra, Equations     Data Representation, Research Summaries       Click here to view the questions you missed ->         Note: If you wish to print this report and you are using Microsoft's Internet Explorer, you must configure your browser to print background colors in order print the bar graphs correctly. Configuring your browswer is simple. Go to the Tools menu; select Internet Options, then click on the Advanced tab; scroll down to find the Printing heading and check the box called Print Background Colors and Images.