<p>Why are either of them easier for certain people?</p>
<p>SAT is just SAT you have to take SAT2s separately
ACT is a one shot thing</p>
<p>oh yea collegeboard sucks huge too</p>
<p>Liking the ACT better myself, I'll leave it to someone else to give you the advantages of the SAT. All I can think of is that it is better if you score better on it and the score will allow you to apply to Harvey Mudd, the only school I know of that doesn't accept the ACT.</p>
<p>Pro's of the ACT:
1. Score choice
2. No penalty for guessing
3. Substitutes for SAT Subject Tests at many colleges
4. Tests don't go back and forth. You take one math test, one reading test, etc.</p>
<p>SAT tends to have trickier questions. ACT tends to put people in time binds. How this plays out depends on the individual. I scored the same on the two tests, as did my son. My daughter scored significantly better on the ACT and detested the format of the SAT to boot. (She also was looking at the tests prior to the change in the SAT -- the change happened to take out the sections she particularly disliked in the SAT and to add in one where she would do well. So taking them today I don't know if her scores would differ that much.)</p>
<p>I understand that you can control when and where to send ACT scores, for example, if you retake it. With the SAT, all scores are reported.</p>
<p>That's what "score choice" means.</p>