Taylor Swaak is a breaking news and education reporter for Newsweek with published work in Newsday and the Hartford Courant, as well as on CNN.com. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's ...

If you are planning on going to college soon, or have a child who is eyeing college admissions you know that the SAT & ACT test scores are very important in the admissions process. If you have done ...

Here’s a secret most high scorers already know: practice tests aren’t just about drilling questions. In fact, ACT research shows that students who regularly use ACT practice questions and prep tools ...

Which ACT prep book is best in 2025? Throughout the United States, the ACT is among the primary standardized tests considered in college admissions. It contains four main subjects — English, Math, ...

Eleventh-grade students and teachers are spending extraordinary amounts of class time preparing for ACT, but the intense focus on test strategies and item practice is hurting, not helping, performance ...

MasteryPrep, a Baton Rouge-based company that prepares children to take standardized tests, has reached a deal with the ACT to develop a preparation program to get hundreds of thousands of high school ...

When it comes time to apply to colleges, many high school students will find themselves asking how they can make their college applications stand out. Serious scholars applying to competitive schools ...

ACT does offer a fee waiver to take the test for free up to four times for students who are eligible for free and reduced lunches in schools. Some students and high schools in the U.S. have taken to ...

Walnut Hills High School announced last week that 17 of its students scored a perfect 36 on the ACT college admissions test. Things got a little crazy after that. Jimmy Fallon joked about it on the ...