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The American College Testing Assessment (ACT) is designed to test your skill levels in English, math, reading, and science reasoning.

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Test Purpose

The ACT Program helps more than one million high school students each year develop postsecondary educational plans and helps thousands of colleges and universities meet the needs of their students. One component of the program is the ACT, which contains five curriculum-based tests: the English, Mathematics, Reading and Science Tests are standardized multiple choice tests based on the major areas of high school and postsecondary instructional programs; the optional Writing Test is an impromptu essay on a given prompt. Performance on these tests has a direct relationship to a student’s educational achievement. The meaning of the test scores can be grasped and interpreted by both students and teachers.

Data from the ACT are used for many purposes. For example, high schools use the data in academic advising and counseling. Colleges use the data for recruitment, admissions, and course placement. And many state and national agencies use the data in their scholarship and special recognition programs.

There are at least four good reasons to take the ACT:

The ACT tests are universally accepted for college admission. The ACT is accepted by virtually all colleges and universities in the , including all of the Ivy League schools.

The ACT multiple-choice tests are curriculum based. The ACT is not an aptitude or an IQ test. Instead, the questions on the ACT are directly related to what you have learned in your high school courses in English, mathematics, and science. Because the ACT tests are based on what is taught in the high school curriculum, students are generally more comfortable with the ACT than they are with the traditional aptitude tests or tests with narrower content.

The ACT is more than a test. Inaddition to the tests, the ACT also provides test takers with a unique interestinventory that provides valuable information for career and educational planningand a student profile section that provides a comprehensive profile of yourwork in high school and your future plans.

The ACT is a good value. As a private, not-for-profit organization governed by educators, ACT is committed to providing services at the lowest possible cost. Accordingly, the ACT provides a comprehensive package of educational assessment and career planning services for college-bound students at a modest fee that is lower than the fee for the competing admission test.

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