I am wondering which test I should focus on and which one to send to colleges. I’m going into junior year, and I am taking the Princeton Review for the SAT so my score might go up. I have taken the PSAT and ACT Aspire, not the actual tests which I will do next year. It is early to tell how I will do on the SAT but here are my scores:
PSAT: 1190 (of 1600)
ACT: Composite 27-30
Thanks!
ACT is a lot more general in terms of test material and requires you to have some broad understanding of certain subjects in math and science (i.e. Trigonometry). I personally chose the ACT because I preferred the section division (it puts each subject into a big portion rather than the SAT that breaks everything up to 10 parts). From my understanding, the ACT doesn’t require SAT vocab in the essays. From personal experience, I’d say the ACT was a lot easier, especially with respect to improvement from my practice exams to the actual one.
ACT. The SAT is still too new of a test, and for the Class of 2018 there are still going to be some doubts as to the strength of an SAT score. Many counselors in my area are telling students to focus on the ACT because it is the known test, and colleges know what a score truly means. In conversations with parents, I describe the SAT as “a loaf of bread that was taken out of the oven ten minutes too soon”.