ACT

The Institutional ACT Test is no longer administered at Gainesville State College because it is no longer "required" for college admission.

The ACT Assessment—What is it?

The ACT Assessment or "A-C-T" as it is commonly called, is a national college admission examination that consists of tests in:

English	Mathematics
Reading	Science Reasoning

ACT results are accepted by virtually all U.S. colleges and universities.

The ACT includes 215 multiple-choice questions and takes approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes to complete with breaks. Actual testing time is 2 hours and 55 minutes.

The ACT Assessment test is prepared according to the:

Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education (1985).
Code of Professional Responsibilities in Educational Measurement, National Council on Measurement in Education (1995).
Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education, Joint Committee on Testing Practices (1988).

Understanding Your Scores

To determine your scores on each of the four ACT tests, we first count the number of questions that you answered correctly. We do not deduct any points for incorrect answers or for guessing incorrectly. We then convert your raw scores to scale scores that have the same meaning for all forms of the tests. The scale scores range from 1 (low) to 36 (high) for each of the four tests and for the Composite. The Composite is the average of your four test scores, rounded to the nearest whole number.