<p>I've heard that for SAT it's best for you to not take it more than 3 times because colleges will look at it. I'm wondering if it is the same for ACT? Should I take ACT less than 3 times?</p>
<p>12 is the max</p>
<p>Take it as many times as you want. The max is 12. It’s very hard to take it 12 times with your score continually improving…</p>
<p>With score choice, you can just take it as many times as you want and choose your best score.</p>
<p>So colleges will only get one of your ACT score and they wouldn’t know how many times you took the ACT. For the SAT, colleges prefer you to take it less than 3 times. For the ACT you can take more than 3 times and the colleges wouldn’t know?</p>
<p>The reason they don’t want you to take it more than 2-3 times is because usually peoples scores don’t increase significantly on the 3 or 4th or 5th, etc try. So they dont want you to waste your money. When signing up for the ACT, don’t put in 4 college codes when registering to test, leave that blank. Then after gettig your acore, see if you like it and THEN send it off to colleges</p>
<p>ACT take how many ever times. i’m taking it in sept for the 6th time and I have a 26 that’t why i’m taking it again but everytime i vary significantly in the sub scores. One time I’ll got 29 in English then 25 the next and went high in something else but it’s nice u choose the ones u want to send to colleges. i wouldn’t put any colleges down when u sign up wait till u see the scores then decide what tests u want to send to colleges. could never hurt u.</p>
<p>3 times is a good number. The complete maximum is 12x per year, but almost no one does that. After 3x, your frustration increases and you score decreases.</p>
<p>My nephew took it six or seven times. He had a high SAT and was a National Merit Finalist and Scholar but could not break 30 on the ACT (finally got 32). He kept having problems finishing, especially the reading. I think it is a processing speed problem.</p>
<p>thought takes time. The ACT geniuses don’t understand that.</p>