National Ranks for Subscores

(based on ACT-tested high school graduates from 2010, 2011, and 2012 and reported on score reports during 2012–2013)

Find one of your subscores in the far left column. Read across to the column for that subject area to locate the national rank for that subscore.

For example, the national rank for a Usage/Mechanics subscore of 11 is 64. This means 64 percent of recent high school graduates who took the ACT achieved a Usage/Mechanics subscore of 11 or below.

Subscore English Mathematics Reading
Usage/
Mechanics
Rhetorical
Skills
Pre-Alg./
Elementary
Algebra
Algebra/
Coord.
Geometry
Plane
Geometry/
Trig.
Social
Studies/
Sciences
Arts/
Literature
18 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
17 96 99 96 99 99 97 97
16 92 98 91 98 98 93 91
15 88 92 87 95 95 87 85
14 83 86 81 92 90 82 79
13 77 79 74 83 82 76 73
12 72 70 66 72 73 69 65
11 64 60 58 63 62 59 57
10 55 48 48 50 51 50 48
09 44 39 40 36 38 40 39
08 35 27 32 22 25 29 31
07 27 19 21 12 15 19 23
06 19 13 09 07 09 10 17
05 13 09 03 04 05 05 09
04 08 05 01 02 03 02 04
03 04 02 01 01 02 01 01
02 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01