After taking an adaptive digital PSAT or SAT, has your high schooler said, or maybe even whined about, any of the following?
- I thought I was doing fine during the first modules, but the second modules were kind of a disaster!
- Though of course I prefer shorter tests to longer ones, I don’t like how every single question counts so much more!
- I wish the hardest math problems in the second module were more like the hardest problems we do in school—they’re totally not!
- I actually do better thinking with paper and pencil than I do with screen, keyboard, and mouse.
If so, this post is for YOU!
Who knows how much longer the ACT will offer paper-and-pencil entrance exams, but college-bound higher schoolers in 2024 still have the option to take an “old-school” test, while the CollegeBoard’s SAT is offered only digitally.
With a significantly longer and more granular exam featured by the ACT, there are more questions—each worth less than individual SAT questions—placing a premium on standard high school math material rather than on conceptual mathematical thinking.
The next three paper-and-pencil ACT exam dates are April 13, June 8, and July 13.
Learn how to beat, even beast, the ACT with Dr. Yo either in private tutoring or in any of 4 small classes for each date.
With so many of the colleges (led by MIT, Yale, and Dartmouth) jumping back on the required entrance exam bandwagon, the paper-and-pencil ACT presents a golden opportunity for applicants to gain a leg up on the competition
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