ACT Accommodations- If you require accommodations and are going to take the exam on your own prior to Spring 2024, please contact the ACT directly and let them know that Green Hope High School cannot give an exam on campus to provide your accommodations. If you have questions contact Laurie Kovalaske or your case manager.

The ACT College Admissions Assessment is given to all students in the 11th grade.  No registration is necessary.

For more information about the ACT visit:  https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/help.html

 

The State Board of Education is required by General Statute §115C-174.11 (c)(4), to plan for and require the administration of the ACT test to all public school students who are enrolled in the eleventh grade for the first time. 

The ACT is part of North Carolina’s school accountability program. In addition, the ACT results may be used at the high school level to identify students who need assistance with certain subject areas or academic skills, to evaluate effectiveness of instruction, and to adjust curriculum to improve instruction. Colleges use ACT scores for admissions decisions, course placement, academic advising, and loans and scholarships. Students participating in the statewide ACT administration can select for free up to four colleges (or other reporting agencies) to receive their ACT scores.

Students who have taken either the SAT or the ACT before March 1, 2022 and have scores that meet the college readiness benchmark standards, do not have to participate in the statewide ACT administration. However, it is the students’ responsibility to notify the school that they do not wish to participate in the ACT. Before submitting a request for exemption, students must have either SAT or ACT test scores that meet the following college readiness benchmarks:

SAT college readiness benchmark scores include the following subtests:

 

ACT college readiness benchmark scores include all the following subtests:

 

Students may not combine test scores from prior, separate administrations to meet college readiness benchmark scores. All college readiness benchmark scores must be attained during the same test administration.

 

For consideration of an ACT testing exception, students must provide a copy of the ACT Testing Student Request Form and submit the request to