ACT Scores Show Most Students Aren’t Ready for College

According to results released today , the proportion of tested graduating seniors who are “college ready” as defined by the ACT grew from 22 percent in the class of 2008 to 23 percent in the class of 2009. College-readiness levels remained within two-tenths of a percentage point of where they’ve been since 2005.

“We need to increase the number of high school graduates who are prepared to succeed in college,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement released through ACT Inc., the Iowa City, Iowa-based nonprofit organization that designs the test.

Many students who take this test get highly discouraged. But what many are not told is that they do not need to take the test to be accepted into College. Students can get accepted to many colleges without ever sitting for this exam.

Many institution have done away with requiring the test due to the fact that the test does not accurately provide information regarding a students ability to achieve or excell in college.

Information regarding schools that do not require the test can be located at www.fairtest.org.