The ACT’s recently announced changes, effective September 2020, are all good news for students.
Single Section Retesting will allow students to retake just one or two or three sections, rather than the entire four-section, nearly four-hour test. Students will be able to focus on just the sections they wish to retake—no need to retake the English Section if you already have, and are satisfied with, a 35 in English.
Superscoring will ensure that all colleges will consider the composite score derived from the best subscores, whether occurring on the same test or not. Although many colleges are already superscoring their applicants’ ACT results, now all will, which should increase average composite scores.
Choose between online testing and traditional paper testing on national test dates should allow students to receive scores about ten days sooner, which can help with application strategies and future testing plans. Right now the school has to pick one method or the other for all of their students, and we have been going with the traditional paper test because we don't want any issues with technology (electricity goes off, etc) impacting a students test scores.
