what is the name of the pre ACT test

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<p>that kids take as sophomores and how do you get it administered at your school?</p>

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<p>PLAN. Not sure how to get it administered.</p>

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<p>PLAN - but the scoring does not correlate as closely to ACT as PSAT does to SAT.
Our school makes every 10th grader take it - they pay for it.</p>

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<p>When you say the PLAN scores don’t correlate as closely, what do you mean? My kids’ scores were slightly lower than projected.</p>

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<p>I do not have PLAN results in front of me, so I might be mistaken:</p>

<p>I think that PLAN maximum points are 27 or 29, while on ACT you get 36.
PSAT is out of 240/Sat out of 2400. </p>

<p>My son did not max on PLAN and he received ACT 36 in first sitting.</p>

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<p>can they take it as juniors?</p>

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<p>We just got a notice this week that my daughter, a freshman, will take the PLAN next week. I thought that my other two took it as sophomores…</p>

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<p>Yes PLAN, it’s generally a sophomore test - when you get the results, if your school administers, it will show a range of anticipated junior spring scores. It’s fairly accurate, maybe slightly conservative. My kids scored slightly better in junior spring than the PLAN predicted. But kids are all different and the classes they take are different. Check with your school to see if they give the PLAN.</p>

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<p>But it does not lead to a scholarship program like the PSAT does. My kids just took a practice ACT at home.</p>

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<p>There’s the pre-PLAN called the EXPLORE which is administered here in 8th grade; that grade scale goes from 1 to 25 and also gives an “expected range” for the PLAN. The PLAN (or pre-ACT) is designed for 10th graders and that grade scale goes from 1 to 32 and also gives an “expected range” for the ACT. The ACT scores from 1 to 36.</p>

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<p>Is this correct information? My kid got either 31 or 32 and thought that was a bad score? I didn’t know it was out of 32. I thought that was out of 36.</p>

<p>Nevermind. I googled and it’s correct information. I told my kid and she laughed.
<a href=“http://www.actstudent.org/plan/score/whatmean.html[/url]”>http://www.actstudent.org/plan/score/whatmean.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^^^Yup. And the individual english & math sections (math & english have 2 scored sections) only get scored up to 16 on the PLAN, while they’re scored up to 18 on the ACT.</p>

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<p>^That’s good to know. If she didn’t do well on the SAT, I will ask her to take the ACT.</p>

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<p>Both my kids took the PLAN … they both scored at the top end of the expected ACT range predicted by the PLAN score.</p>