Taking the ACT Test—State and District Testing
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2017 Taking the ACT® Test State and District Testing This information booklet is for all students taking the ACT test through ACT State and District testing. Examinees may keep this booklet for future reference. Do not return it to ACT or the school. www.act.org Where to Find it What You Need to Know • Sharpened, soft lead No. 2 pencils and good erasers (no mechanical Checklist for Taking the ACT 2 to Take the ACT pencils or ink pens). A watch to pace yourself. Your test Calculators 2 • General Information coordinator will announce when Completing Your Answer Document 9 This booklet gives you the information you 5 minutes remain on each test. need to take the ACT. You will complete the • A permitted calculator. High School Course/Grade non-test portions of your answer document Information 10 during a scheduled, supervised session • Snacks to eat outside the test room at school before the test date. On test day, during break. ACT Student Profile Section 11 you will record your responses to the tests ACT Interest Inventory 14 on your answer document. After testing At the Test Site is completed, your test coordinator will Testing begins after all students are Receiving and Sending Your send your answer document to ACT. Score ✔ checked in and continues for about 3½ Scores 24 reports will normally be mailed about hours for the ACT (no writing) or 4 hours 2–8 weeks after we receive your answer and 15 minutes for the ACT with writing. document. A short break is scheduled after the first two tests. If you are taking the ACT with Test Accommodations writing, you will have time after Test 4 If you receive test accommodations in to relax and sharpen your pencils. school as part of your Individualized Why Take the ACT? ✔ Terms and Conditions: apply to all tests Education Program (IEP) or a Section 504 (See next page). The ACT test is a curriculum-based Plan, ask your test coordinator whether examination that matches well with the accommodations have been requested for ✔ DO NOT take any of the following items education standards in your state. Taking you for the ACT. into the test room: the ACT can provide helpful information • Books, dictionaries, notes, scratch for all students, not just those who are paper, or any unapproved testing planning to attend college. Checklist for aids Taking the ACT can give every student a Taking the ACT Highlight pens, colored pens or measure of his or her academic strengths • pencils, or correction fluid and weaknesses. You can use your results Before Test Day to recognize your academic strengths and Any electronic device other than ✔ Prepare for the tests by reviewing • areas where you need to improve, whether a permitted calculator (examples Preparing for the ACT, which can be you intend to go to college or enter the include cell phone, media player, downloaded from www.actstudent. workplace after high school. headphones, iPad) org if your school does not have a copy. If you are not considering college now, you This free booklet includes information • Reading material may decide to make college part of your about the tests, test-taking strategies, Tobacco in any form plans later. Your ACT results can help you and complete practice tests for both • begin the career exploration and planning the multiple-choice tests and the process. It is likely that nearly everyone ACT writing test. Instructions on how who graduates from high school will to score your practice tests are also Calculators eventually have to continue their education included. The ACT calculator policy is designed to to achieve their career or life goals. ✔ Complete the non-test portions of your ensure fairness for all examinees, avoid The ACT includes multiple-choice answer document during the scheduled, disturbances in the testing room, and tests in English, mathematics, reading, in-school session. (See instructions protect the security of the test materials. and science. The tests measure your beginning on page 9.) Do not return A permitted calculator may be used educational development in those areas the answer document to ACT. Follow • on the ACT mathematics test only. and are based on what you have learned— instructions from your school. they are not aptitude or IQ tests. It is your responsibility to know ✔ If you do not have acceptable photo • whether your calculator is permitted. If your state or district is administering identification and the testing staff the ACT with writing, you will also take do not know you personally, ask a • For the most current information a writing test, for which you will write school official for the ACT Student on the ACT calculator policy, an essay in English. The ACT writing Identification Form. visit www.actstudent.org or test measures the writing skills you have call 800.498.6481 for a recorded ✔ Review the information about permitted acquired in your high school English message. and prohibited calculators. courses. Many colleges use ACT writing • If your calculator has characters test results as a guide for placing incoming On Test Day one inch high or larger, or a raised students into first-year composition display, testing staff may seat you courses. ✔ Report for testing at the time designated where no other examinee can see your by your school. You will not be admitted calculator. to test if you are late. ✔ Take the following items with you: • Acceptable photo identification. Unless the testing staff can personally recognize you, you will not be admitted to test without acceptable photo identification. 2 2016-2017 TERMS AND CONDITIONS: TESTING RULES AND POLICIES FOR THE ACT® TEST These Terms and Conditions are an agreement between the person who will take the ACT® test (“you”) and ACT, Inc. (“ACT”). They apply to every administration of the ACT test except where, and only to the extent that, you are provided with different terms or conditions by ACT, Inc. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. By registering for and/or taking the ACT test, you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions. By registering for and/or taking the ACT test, you represent and warrant the following to ACT: (1) the information you have provided to ACT is true; (2) you agree to be bound by, and will comply with, these Terms and Conditions and other ACT policies for the ACT test; (3) you will not engage in any prohibited behaviors; (4) you will cooperate with any test security investigation; and (5) you are not working for or on behalf of any test preparation provider(s). Special instructions for the ACT test taken online: All references to answer sheets or answer documents in these Terms and Conditions refer to your responses on the ACT test taken online, and all references to test booklets and test-related documents include the ACT test taken online and all related test materials provided in paper or electronic form. These Terms and Conditions do not create a third-party beneficiary relationship between ACT and any individual or entity other than you. Contents Privacy Policy and Notice of Collection of Personally Identifying Information........................................................................................................... Automatic Score Reporting for Scholarship Purposes* ............................................................................................................................................... Photo Submission Requirement for Registration (National Testing Only) .................................................................................................................. Capturing Images or Voice Recordings at Test Centers.............................................................................................................................................. Acceptable Identification .............................................................................................................................................................................................. .. Test Security.................................................................................................................................................................................................................... A. Prohibited Behavior at the Test Center ................................................................................................................................................... .. B. Individual Score Reviews ............................................................................................................................................................................ C. Compromises/Disruptions in the Testing Process– Limitation of Remedies........................................................................................... Arbitration of Disputes with ACT.................................................................................................................................................................................... Retest Restriction............................................................................................................................................................................................................ ACT Intellectual Property Rights.................................................................................................................................................................................... Changes to These Terms and Conditions ....................................................................................................................................................................