DD was required to take the ACT at school. It was the worst test administration she’s ever sat through. There were major testing issues at this administration. She tried to contact ACT and have her score cancelled but they said that since it was a state administration, the state owns the scores and not the student. Therefore, she has no right to cancel or delete the score. It is a very frustrating situation. The only saving grace we might have is that since the test was not registered under her online account, it probably won’t show on her online test portal unless we call with the paper test ID number and have the two accounts merged.
Can you simply not merge it? It this ethical as far as score releases go?
Thanks
For my kids, we used the state/school administered ACT as a free practice test. Particularly because the free state test was given without the writing and so could not be used at all colleges.
The rub in our state was that the school was required to put the ACT score onto the official high school transcript. So that state ACT score would automatically go to every college even without any ACT score reports. We had to go through a separate process to get the state ACT deleted from the HS transcript.
We then sent the latest test score reports to the colleges being applied to.
My D’s state score was automatically added to her online account.
If the school requires reporting of all test scores you must do it. If not, don’t. Schools will still use the highest score (it’s to their benefit).
Don’t automatically consider the score useless. I’ve seen on websites, “essay required when offered.” I’ve talked to other schools that say the essay is required at least once but not on every test. Worth asking.
I thin the point is that the student has to take the test again if the writing portion is required. So having the test given “for free” at school doesn’t really save the any money or time and effort.