If you’re anywhere near getting ready to apply to college, you may already be contemplating whether to take the ACT®, or American College Test. For more than a half-century, the ACT has been one of ...

Some ACT changes include a shorter test time and optional science section.

Starting in spring of 2025, the science section of the ACT test will be optional for online testing, and optional for both online and in-person testing beginning in fall of 2025.

Students who take the ACT more than once can earn a superscore that averages their best results for each section from all test attempts.

School District U-46 will pay for high school juniors to take the ACT test in the fall in an effort to potentially boost scores.

The ACT, the standardized college admissions test offered to all Alabama high school students, will no longer have a mandatory science section.

The English part of the ACT typically takes approximately 42, and the math section is about 1 minute and 7 seconds. The test allows about 1 minute per question in the reading section.

The organization that administers the test called it "a worrisome trend." America's graduating high school class of 2022 had the lowest average ACT score in more than 30 years, according to new ...

To address flexibility, the ACT will no longer require the science section beginning in Spring 2025. Instead, the science section of the test will be offered as an additional, optional section.

Before the change, the test was comprised of four sections: English, reading, math and science. This year, however, students will be able to skip taking the science portion, Janet Godwin, ACT CEO ...

What's more, the data showed that only 22% of students among the 2022 graduating class met the benchmarks in all four main ACT test sections -- english, math, reading and science -- while 42% did ...