Students who complete the writing portion of the ACT exam will be graded on a 2 to 12 scale beginning this fall, ACT administrators announced Tuesday. The writing test itself, an optional supplement to the traditional ACT exam, and its scoring criteria will remain unchanged, but it will no longer use a 36-point scale like its multiple-choice counterpart. The scoring change was made to eliminate confusion from test-takers who attempted to compare scores from the two exams, according to Suzana De... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>