SAT or ACT or Both?

happymomof1
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:27:29 +0000

stevena - Take a look at your college list and see what is required. All colleges and universities that ask for a standardized exam will accept both the ACT and the SAT. SOME will require one or more SAT II exams, and of those SOME will accept the ACT or ACT with writing instead of the SATII exams. In other words, depending on your list, one more try at the ACT might be all you have to do.

kellyseverino - You need to sit down with your guidance counselor and talk about the reasons for these low test scores. This kind of discrepancy between your classroom performance and your performance on standardized exams can indicate many things, among them: lack of good test-taking strategies, test-induced anxiey, previously undiagnosed processing disabilities (things along the line of dyslexia). All of these have work-arounds, and your best chance at getting help with mastering the work-around(s) that you need is by identifying your challenges while you are still in high school. Your counselor can advocate for you with UCF admissions, so go see your counselor the first day you are back at school after winter break.