Digital SAT vs. ACT: Which Should Students With Learning Disabilities Take?

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Choosing between the Digital SAT and the ACT is a significant decision for any student, but it becomes even more critical for students with learning disabilities. Both tests offer accommodations and have unique features that can influence which might be the better option. Here's a detailed comparison to help students and parents make an informed choice.

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How To Calculate Your SAT or ACT Superscore?

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The big day has already come and gone, and you’ve been sitting around the house biting your nails for the past two weeks. You could sit around even longer, waiting for the hard copy of your standardized test score report to arrive, but why would you? Scores are available online long before the paper copy will arrive. So log on to the College Board website and see how you did.

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SAT and ACT Accommodations | Everything You Need to Know About SAT & ACT Accommodations

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The SAT and the ACT are stressful tests for all students who plan to go to college. For kids with learning disabilities or other needs, these tests can seem even more difficult to master. Both the SAT and the ACT have policies about testing accommodations, but they can be a little confusing for families to understand. You and your kid may wonder:

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ACT Writing Test: What's Changing on the ACT Writing Section?

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The ACT, a well-known rival to the SAT for students planning to apply for college, has an optional writing section for students who want to display their writing skills. In mid-October the ACT announced plans to change this writing section for tests beginning in the fall of 2015, so current high school sophomores and juniors will want to pay attention to this change if they plan to take the ACT.

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ACT Test Prep | Winter ACT

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Does your teen wants to take the ACT this winter as part of a successful college application? If so, it'll be tough to balance schoolwork, sports, activities, and practice ACT questions, so think about creating a test review schedule. The key to acing the ACT is to get familiar with the questions, hone grammar skills, and review important math concepts: strong critical reading skills and quantitative reasoning skills are important for the entire ACT. After brushing up on all that, someone planning to take the ACT should practice whenever possible! The more practice tests and questions he or she completes, the easier the ACT will be on test day.

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ACT Essay: Will You Try It or Skip It?

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If a student decides to take the ACT in the process of applying to colleges, he or she will also get to choose whether or not to take the writing component of the ACT. This is an optional thirty minute section of the ACT that requires students to respond to a prompt with a written essay, which is quite similar to the structure of the essay section of the SAT. Students who opt to take the ACT with the writing section will get five scores in their test results, showing the score for this optional section, as well as scores for English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science, which make up the core of the ACT.

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