<p>Are state-mandated ACTs just as valid as National ACTs? Do state-mandated ACTs usually have a writing portion?</p>
<p>I say this because I recently heard that state-mandated ACTs are frowned upon by colleges, and I kinda doubted that.</p>
<p>Doesn’t taking one ACT act as both a state and national test at the same time? I’m not really understanding the question.</p>
<p>Besides, there’s little reason to believe that state-mandated ACTs are frowned upon; colleges don’t usually discriminate what test you’re taking (ie SAT vs ACT).</p>
<p>I’m sorry, my question was unclear, but you seemed to have gotten the gist of it anyway. So if I got a 36 on a state-mandated ACT and a 35 on a normal ACT, I should send the 36 from the state?</p>
<p>Send the 36. If your state requires you to take the ACT and you send the score you got on that one to colleges, it is the same as someone who takes it without their state requiring them to.</p>
<p>I took the state ACT at my HS, scored a 35 and was accepted at every school I applied at even H and Y so I am certain that state ACT’s aren’t looked down on. Also, highly selective colleges require all test scores from each date the test was taken.</p>
<p>Do all “state tests” include writing?</p>
<p>^ yea im pretty sure because my entire state took it with writing</p>
<p>^Mine did not have the writing section offered. I’m *<strong><em>ed, because now I have to take it for the 3rd *</em></strong>ing time. I got a 33 composite, which was my goal. :/</p>