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ACT/SAT/Subject
Tests |
Website:
www.actstudent.org
Company:
Accepted
By: Most 4-year colleges
Test
Fee: $29.00, with Writing, $43.00
Measures:
How much students have learned
Sections:
English (usage/mechanics, rhetorical skills)
Math (pre-algebra, algebra 1, geometry, trigonometry)
Calculators may be used.
Reading (prose, fiction, social studies, humanities,
natural sciences) Science Reasoning (biology, earth, chemistry, physics)
and writing.
Recommended : Spring, Junior year, December of senior year
is latest test date for 4-year colleges*
SAT
Reasoning Test
Website:
www.collegeboard.com
Company:
Educational Testing Service
Accepted
By: Most 4-year colleges
Test
Fee: $41.50
Measures:
Reasoning abilities
Sections:
--Verbal
(critical reading, analogies, sentence completion)
--Math (Mostly algebra 1 and geometry.)
--Calculators may be used, ten questions require
student produced (grid-in) answers
--Writing (essay and multiple
choice)
Recommended:
--Spring, Junior year
--Cannot take SAT I same day as Subject Tests
--December of Senior year is latest test date for four year colleges*
Subject
Tests
Website:
www.collegeboard.com
Company:
Educational Testing Service
Accepted By: UC requires two from two different subject areas and
selective private colleges may require three. If math chosen, UC
requires level 2.
Test
Fee: $18.00 basic test fee plus $8.00 per test (some tests are more)
Measures:
Knowledge in the subject area
Sections:
22 different subjects, can take up to 3 on one test
date (Not all tests given on all dates)
Recommended:
--Spring (not senior year) after highest level class in that particular
subject.
--Language listening tests are only given in November.
--Cannot take Subject Test on the same day as SAT Reasoning Test.
* Some colleges
require November testing deadline. Check with each school
*Our School Code is 053675
Note: CSU