ACT Inc. has released an update revealing more information about the updated ACT, which they are officially calling ACT Enhanced.
Some important details that have been revealed:
Implementation Dates :
In the United States, ACT Enhanced will be available for the online version of the test starting in April 2025 and for the paper version of the test starting in September 2025. The current version of the test will have its final administration in July 2025.
Internationally, ACT Enhanced will be available starting in September 2025.
The first state and district administration of ACT Enhanced will come in Spring 2026.
Primary Test Changes :
The Science section is now optional and no longer contributes to a student's Composite score.
The core test (English, Mathematics, Reading) will include only two hours and five minutes of testing.
The English Test will be 35 minutes with 50 questions.
Passages will now have 5 or 10 questions each (instead of 15 on the current test) and all questions will now contain a specific question stem indicating what skill the question is testing.
The Mathematics Test will be 50 minutes with 45 questions.
Questions on this section will now have only four answer choices per question (instead of five per question on the current test).
The Reading Test will be 40 minutes with 36 questions (compared with 35 minutes and 40 questions on the current test).
The now optional Science section will be 5 minutes longer (40 minutes) and contain the same number of questions (40) as on the current test. ACT representatives have confirmed that the section will include a larger number of "outside science knowledge" questions and will always include at least one passage related to engineering.
Students now get a short break between each section.
There will be no more unscored Test 5 (Experimental Test). Instead, experimental questions will be included among the questions on each of the primary test sections.
Effects on Scoring and Superscoring
On ACT Enhanced, the Composite score is the average of a student's English, Math, and Reading scores. Therefore, a student's Superscore will also consist only of a student's highest scores on those three sections.
For students who have previously taken the current version of the ACT, taking either the online or paper version of ACT Enhanced will automatically cause that student's Superscore on the ACT website to no longer include the Science score in the calculation of the Composite. In other words, it will be possible to drop the Science score from your Superscore if it will benefit you. However, the student's highest Science score will still be displayed on the official Superscore report on the ACT website.
Importantly, schools have not yet explained how they will handle the Superscores for students who have taken both the current version of the ACT and ACT Enhanced.
Other Important Details:
No actual content is changing on the test. Therefore, current TIR exams should continue to prove useful.
A full ACT Enhanced practice test will be released by early 2025.
If a student does not take the optional Science or Writing sections, ACT Enhanced will cost less than the current version of the test. Adding the optional Science and Writing sections will incur an extra fee for each section
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