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ACT Percentiles: Understanding Your Ranking

ACT Percentiles: Understanding Your Ranking

Have you taken the ACT recently? Do you need help analyzing and understanding your scores? This article will walk you through understanding your ACT percentiles and score rank as compared to all test takers across the country. Even if you haven’t taken the test yet, this article will be useful for understanding what score you can hope to achieve and can give you a goal to work towards.

How to Study for the ACT: 15 Ways to Prepare

How to Study for the ACT: 15 Ways to Prepare

As you know, the ACT is an exam designed to test what you’ve learned and the skills you’ve acquired throughout your many years in school. That means you’re going to face a lot of challenging material, and your ACT can play a big role in whether or not you get into the college of your choice.

When Should You Take the ACT? Best ACT Test Dates

When Should You Take the ACT? Best ACT Test Dates

So you’re finally ready to take the ACT! This is a pretty big moment for you. While the ACT is not the biggest part of your college application, it is still an essential component. Picking the best ACT test date will help you to succeed on the exam.

What’s a Good ACT Score? What’s a Bad ACT Score?

What’s a Good ACT Score? What’s a Bad ACT Score?

Until recently, the SAT® was the test to take to qualify for college admissions. It has been administered consistently since the 1920’s and is considered a staple in American culture, and is even a rite of passage to some.

So, in 1959, the ACT program was born. ACT is an abbreviation for American College Test and was started by a professor in Iowa who was dissatisfied with the SAT® testing format and procedures.