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If you are a university looking for knowledgeable students, than their American College Test scores just may be their automatic acceptance ticket into your school. Why look at a student's four-year, long-term evidence of self-discipline, hard work, and intellectual curiosity in their overall GPA average over one test? Throughout high school, teachers may tell you that your GPA is how to get into college, but universities are only looking for ACT scores. Colleges might as well forget all your long, hard work at school to keep high grades and testing scores if the ACT is what is only taken into consideration. Students could not possibly demonstrate their accurate knowledge through their 4.0 GPA average, but only through their low ACT score. Some say students with good grades and modest testing did better in college than students with higher testing and lower grades. I know plenty of graduated students who ended with a low GPA and high ACT score, and no trouble getting into college. This means everyone should be doing well on the ACT because before getting into college, you should already know most of the information that prepares you for your major and classes you will be taking. One’s ACT score accurately …show more content…

These sections focus more on abstract skills rather than concrete content. This means it consists of more broad-critical thinking skills instead of knowing specific information. The ACT would be extremely difficult to accomplish if it were the other way around. If you were exposed to particular information tested, then the test would not be accurate to your level of intelligence. Colleges also assume you took it more than once, reviewing your strongest scores out of a few tests rather than just one. This means you do not have to worry about scoring well on every section in one day rather than having to repeat the test to improve your overall

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