Test Date | Registration Deadline | Late Registration Deadline | Estimated Score Release |
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July 12, 2025* | June 6, 2025 | July 4, 2025 | July 22 – Sept 5, 2025 |
September 6, 2025 | August 1, 2025 | August 29, 2025 | Sept 16 – Oct 30, 2025 |
October 18, 2025 | September 12, 2025 | October 10, 2025 | Oct 28 – Dec 12, 2025 |
December 13, 2025 | November 7, 2025 | December 5, 2025 | Mid-late December (approx. 2–3 weeks after date) |
February 14, 2026 | January 9, 2026 | February 6, 2026 | Late February – early April (approx. 2–4 weeks) |
April 11, 2026 | March 6, 2026 | April 3, 2026 | Late April – early May |
June 13, 2026 | May 8, 2026 | June 5, 2026 | Late June – early August |
July 11, 2026 * | June 5, 2026 | July 3, 2026 | Late July – early September |
*No test centers are scheduled in New York for the July test dates.
In July of 2025, for online testing only, the science section is optional for a composite score. In September of 2025, science is optional for online and paper testing.
ACT scores are posted for online viewing on your MyACT account around two weeks after your test date. Click here to sign in to your MyACT account on the act.org website.
Ivy League Tutoring strongly recommends that you order and pay for ACT My Answer Key (formerly Test Information Release) at the time of registration in order to receive a digial copy of the test questions with a list of your answers and the answer key. If you took the writing test, you will also receive a copy of the writing prompt, scoring rubric and scores assigned. Available for only three test dates per year, the ACT My Answer Key provides you with the opportunity to review the questions you missed (with a tutor or independently) to improve upon your score.
The score which colleges care the most about is the ACT composite score, which ranges from 1-36. The composite score is calculated by adding the four sub-test scores for English, Mathematics, Reading and Science (each on a scale of 1-36) and dividing by four to get the average.
ACT now provides an automatically calculated ACT superscore to all students who have taken the ACT more than once. The ACT Superscore is advantageous because it takes the average of your four highest subject scores from multiple test dates and counts it as your official score.
Colleges set their own policies about superscoring, so students should refer to individual college admission websites to determine each college’s policy towards superscoring. If information about ACT superscoring is not posted on the college’s website, you can call the admissions office to inquire about the policy.
You can convert SAT to ACT scores with this concordance table here.
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