Taking the ACT four times??

[fjorner]

Is it true that taking the ACT more than three times isn't a good thing? Or do you just send your top ACT score to your college? Does ACT tell your college how many times you took it?

oh yeah, and a link to proof of this would be great.

 

[iamwiz82]

4 times? Maybe yo.... err... that person should give up.

😉

 

[fjorner]

it IS my little sister... she got a 23, 25, 24... she is thinking about trying again

 

[Konigin]

She should take it as many times as she wants to, I think they only report the highest score to colleges.

 

[iamwiz82]

25 isnt bad at all. Where is she trying to go?

 

[konichiwa]

If the ACT is like the SAT, they report all scores to the colleges you request. However most schools say (claim) that they only look at your highest score.

 

[FoBoT]

that would be a waste of time

people need to be more accepting of their mental abilities, taking a test like that more than 2 times is a waste of time/money

 

[matt426malm]

I had a friend that took the act 5 times, never did better then the second one (28).

 

[virtuamike]

Yah, ACT doesn't really improve much with multiple testings. Scored a 32 1st time and a 31 2nd time, after that I gave up.

You're better off spending months and months writing the perfect essay than trying to boost your scores.

 

[anno]

the high school guidance people here said that statistically, you tend to improve each time up to 3, but then tend to do worse each time beyond that. statistics is all about tendencies and averages, so of course there are many people it doesn't work that way for..

 

[NoReMoRsE]

What's the ACT test?

-Clueless Canuck

 

[DainBramaged]

1. Take it again.
2. Keep the scores to yourself.
3. Turn in the best one.
er... 4. Profit???

 

[Ionizer86]

You turn the best one in.

In fact, if you want to send more than one score at schools that mix and match (a bud is applying to Stanford, and it seems from the app they mix), you have to pay once for each report you're sending.

I took it three times. I knew I messed up the first time when I ran out of time on the reading (I scored a 32). The second time, my Science Reasoning came back low, and I knew I messed up (composite was a 32, though a higher 32 this time). Third time I took it, I only messed up a little on Math and Science, but I totally lucked out on my Science. Composite is a 34 now!

Moral: take again only if you can clearly identify where you've messed up on the previous test(s).

 

[DainBramaged]

I just got a 26 on mine. I would have taken it again, but there isn't time to get my scores before I apply.

 

[Mill]

How old is your sister? I took it once in the 7th grade and then again in the 10th. That was a drastic jump between each testing(of course). Is she about to finish her Junior year? Senior Year? If she is still a Junior, then I see no harm in taking it again. IIRC, colleges take the highest subscore of each section and the highest composite(best of both worlds).