When it comes time to apply to colleges, many high school students will find themselves asking how they can make their college applications stand out. Serious scholars applying to competitive schools ...

The ACT science section consists of 40 multiple-choice questions that students are given 35 minutes to answer. Roughly 25% to 35% of this ACT portion requires test-takers to work with scientific ...

The ACT science section is the difference-maker for many high school students when they choose between the ACT and the SAT, since the latter has no dedicated science section. Unlike the SAT, the ACT ...

Standardized testing has been a vital component of the college admissions process since the 1950s. According to data provided to The Washington Post, nearly 2 million U.S. high school students in the ...

Here’s a secret most high scorers already know: practice tests aren’t just about drilling questions. In fact, ACT research shows that students who regularly use ACT practice questions and prep tools ...

Hours of drilling on ACT questions in Chicago high schools may be hurting, not helping, students’ scores on the college-admission exam, according to a study released today by a university-based ...

Undeniably, one of the keys to success on standardized tests is proper time management. This is especially the case with ACT Science, a section that puts to use a variety of skills and affords little ...

Eleventh-grade students and teachers are spending extraordinary amounts of class time preparing for ACT, but the intense focus on test strategies and item practice is hurting, not helping, performance ...

Walnut Hills High School announced last week that 17 of its students scored a perfect 36 on the ACT college admissions test. Things got a little crazy after that. Jimmy Fallon joked about it on the ...