Our research indicates that scores on the revised ACT writing test are performing no differently in comparison with scores on the other four ACT subject tests than they did on the previous writing test,” said Wayne Camara，ACT senior vice president of research. “Converting the writing scores to the 1-to-36 scale may have made the differences in scores seem larger or more obvious. This is really a perceptual problem that we are addressing.”

　　ACT advises that students can best interpret how well they scored on an individual subject test by looking at the percentile rank, rather than comparing the score on one subject test to the score on another.

　　之前的写作评分规则：

　　观点和分析，表达和论证，组织结构，语言使用和表达，这四个维度按2-12评分制，最后转换为1-36分的写作分数。成绩单上会有此次考试的单项维度分、总分、百分比。

　　新的写作评分规则：

　　1、从2016年9月开始，ACT作文分数不再使用1-36的评分范围，而是采用2-12的评分制度，满分为12分。而作文的题型不做改变，将继续沿用从2015年9月首考的3Perspectives的题型。另外，评分标准也不做改变，仍然是四个维度：观点和分析，表达与论证，结构，语言使用和表达。

　　2、至于变化的原因，官方代表指出， 原来的评分方式—由四个维度的2-12分最终转换成的1-36总分的算分方式，会使考生困惑，且转换成1-36后的分数差异化更加明显。

　　3、最后ACT官方建议学生在去理解自己分数的时候，要重点去看自己的分数百分位排名，即自己的分数在全部考生当中排前百分之多少，而非简单比较两次考试单项的分数。