ACT testing adds unneeded stress and provides an unfair advantage
Lucas Polucha, Video Editor
February 18, 2020
For many college-bound students, the ACT or SAT tests present the largest hurdle in high school. What is intended to be a test of one's ability too often becomes a stressful, inaccurate and even unfair. Colleges should find less stressful and more balanced ways to determine a student's eligibility for...
While politicians insist that A.C.T. testing should be required, facts disagree
Adam Guinee, Podcast Reporter
January 10, 2020
The A.C.T is supposed to be a test that measures a persons capacity as a student by evaluating them in the four subjects of english, math, reading, and science. ACT, inc. is the non-profit organization which created the A.C.T. test. They continue to assert that the assessment measures a student's ac...
Students take ACTion, ACT prep course offerings
Elise Truman, Online editor
November 17, 2018
An all-out academic battle, where only the strongest survive, and even fewer thrive. The ACT is a standardized test that the majority of the midwestern and southern students take during their junior or senior year. The ACT is comprised of 5 timed sections, math, reading, English, science and a...
ACT prep classes beneficial
Cassie Hansen, Photographer
November 18, 2015
Crucial to college acceptance is the score from a college entrance exam. The ACT or SAT are the two options for students, with the ACT having some 1.6 million students take it each year. Both tests are aimed at determining college readiness. The importance of their results is known by student...