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Related: About this forumThe science section of the ACT exam will now be optional
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5045587/act-exam-test-science-optionalJULY 19, 2024 2:31 AM ET
By Ayana Archie
The science section will now be optional on the ACT exam, and the exam duration will be decreased, the organization announced earlier this week.
The writing section was made optional in 2005. Students can now opt between several versions of the test: the ACT core exam (which includes reading, math and English), the ACT plus writing, the ACT plus science or the ACT plus science and writing.
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Additionally, the duration of the core exam will be reduced from three hours to two hours by making reading passages shorter and cutting out 44 questions total.
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The changes will start with online testing in spring of 2025 and school-day testing in spring of 2026.
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Tadpole Raisin
(1,289 posts)MAGAs will be happy. Thinking and understanding are really overrated!
Did I really need the sarcasm thingy?
Jilly_in_VA
(10,606 posts)of Red state goobernaters whose constituents don't believe in that science-y stuff.
GiqueCee
(1,156 posts)... Keep 'em stupid. They're easier to con.
markodochartaigh
(1,644 posts)God created our flat Earth around which the Sun rotates science has only distracted people from studying the one, true religion! If God had wanted his people to study science, he would have given them brains!
/s
maspaha
(338 posts)I am humbled by your
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I thought I was good, but youve won the day!
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EYESORE 9001
(27,130 posts)Unfathomable to me.
Captain Zero
(7,271 posts)nt
ProfessorGAC
(68,110 posts)I already had issues with schools using block scheduling where science & social studies are taken only every other day.
Now, applicants to college aren't going to be tested on basic knowledge of science unless they feel like it?
I'm opposed.