Test Purpose Measures academic achievement in English, mathematics, reading and science reasoning.
Test contains analytical and problem-solving exercises.
Designed to measure academic aptitude in terms of verbal and numerical reasoning. No penalty for guessing. Scores adjusted for guessing. The ACT is more achievement-based, testing math, natural science, social knowledge of science or history, the ACT is more advantageous. Every effort has been made to represent the ACT and SAT 1 information accurately and concisely.