<p>There are no vocabulary questions on the ACT (although you might need a good vocabulary to understand some of the reading comprehension questions). </p>
<p>Do you think that is one of the ACT's Achilles heel? In other words, considering that a rich vocabulary is important for success in college and in life, are you surprised that the ACT doesn't test it?</p>
<p>Don’t know how important a rich vocabulary is for success in college. I have noticed that kids with broad vocabularies and an aptitude for seeing connections tend to do very well in school, though. I think the ACT is fine. Colleges seem to like it. More and more kids are taking it. “If it ain’t broke . . .”</p>
<p>The test has vocabulary issues throughout including in the reading and even science sections. I would be against anything that would add new sections to the test. SAT used to have a specific vocabulary/word association section that it thankfully did away with. It demonstrated the problem with such specific vocabulary tests. They hire Phd’s in English to write them and the tests end up being mostly on words that no normal human being ever uses and which are only used in incomprehensible articles written by those Phd’s that are read only by other English Phd’s apparently looking for unknown and normally unused words they can use in their own articles.</p>