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Scores for the ACT Test

When you select score recipients, you’ll have the option of sending either score reports from the specific test event or you can choose to send your superscore. You may print an unofficial copy of your ACT test score by using your browser’s print option. A PDF student report is currently unavailable.
 

While a majority of scores are released on the initial score release date, not every score will release and this can be due to a variety of issues:

  • Answer documents from your test center arrived late due to rescheduled testing, testing later in the Special Testing window or mailing delay.
  • The "Matching Information" you provided on the answer document (name, date of birth, and Match Number) is not consistent with the Matching Information on your admission ticket. 
  • An irregularity is reported at your test center. 
  • Your test record may be undergoing additional equating analysis to ensure fairness across administrations and test cycles.

If you take the optional writing test, part of the process of scoring your essay includes review by at least one trained reader.  You’ll see your multiple-choice scores, including your composite score as soon as they become available.  Your scores will not be reported to score recipients until all scores from the event are available, so they have a complete record of your test.

Learn more about your writing test scores.

 

Scores release at the same time for both paper and online testing and scores can be accessed by examinees in MyACT once available.

2025-2026 Score Release Dates

Did you know? Over 97% of scores are available within a 2-4 week period after the test date.

National test date Score Release Date
September 6, 2025 September 23
October 18, 2025 October 28
December 13, 2025 December 30
February 14, 2026 March 3
April 11, 2026 April 21
June 13, 2026 June 23
July 11, 2026 July 21

ACT Superscore

ACT provides an automatically calculated ACT Superscore to all students who have taken the ACT more than once from September 2016 to current day. 

Learn More about Superscoring

Sending ACT Test Scores

In addition to the four institutions you selected upon registering, you can send your scores to others, even after you test. When you select score recipients, you'll have the options of sending either score reports from the specific test event or you can choose to send your superscore.

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What do score recipients get?

Once all scores for a test event are available, they are sent to institutions you elect in MyACT. Recipients receive:

Type of Report
How you choose to send
Where it's delivered
What it reports
High school report By providing your high school information in MyACT ACT's online reporting portal ACT scores, college and career planning information as both a data file and pdf downloadable report
College report To any college recipient you
identify in MyACT for score release during registration or as an additional score report		 Encoura Everything on the Student and High School Report, plus the grades you reported in up to 30 high school courses; it may also include predictions about your performance in specific college programs and courses

Should I Retest?

43% of ACT test takers chose to take the test more than once, and more than half of
them improved their scores. 

Why every point matters on the ACT test

Did you know improving by just a single test point can be worth thousands of dollars in financial aid for your college education? The ACT® test is important to your future—and can open up new opportunities for college and career.

Learn more about scholarship opportunities!

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What scores are reported if I test more than once?  

You determine which set of scores is sent to colleges or scholarship programs. You can choose to send either scores from a specific test, or your superscore.

Can I report only my writing scores or only my multiple-choice scores from a test date?  

No. All scores from a test date will be reported together.   

Can I combine my writing scores from one test date with my multiple-choice scores from another?  

Yes - superscoring enables you to combine writing scores from one test date with multiple-choice scores from another test date.

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Additional Services

Certain national test dates and centers give you the opportunity to order a copy of your questions, your answers, the answer key, and scoring instructions—plus the writing prompt, scoring rubric, and scores assigned to the optional writing test. 

Request ACT My Answer Key

You can ask ACT to verify your multiple-choice and/or your writing test scores up to 12 months after your test date. Please download the Request for Score Verification (PDF). 

You will need to complete the form, and enclose a check payable to ACT Customer Support for the applicable fee(s).

  • For multiple-choice tests, ACT will verify that your responses were checked against the correct scoring key.
  • For the writing test, ACT will verify that your essay was scored by two independent, qualified readers and by a third reader in the event that the two scores differed by more than one point in any domain. ACT will also verify that your essay was properly captured and displayed to readers. If errors are discovered during score verification, ACT will rescore your essay.

ACT will inform you by letter of the results of the score verification approximately three to five weeks after receiving your request.

If a scoring error is discovered, your scores will be changed and corrected reports will be released to you and all previous score report recipients at no charge. In addition, your score verification fee will be refunded.

Score Verification Request (PDF)

Student Errors

If, after you receive your scores, you find that you made a significant error in the information you supplied to us about yourself you may contact us to ask us to correct your record.

We recommend contacting us within three months of receiving your score report. You will need to provide evidence supporting the directed change in most situations.

There is no fee for making the correction, but you must pay the applicable fee for each corrected report you wish sent to a college, agency, or high school.

Other Errors

If an error is our responsibility and requires you to retest, there will be no fee. If the error does not involve retesting, corrected score reports will be released to you and all previous score recipients at no charge. 

If you need to change a score recipient, you have until Thursday, 12 pm CT after the regularly scheduled test date.

If you tested before September 2011, you scores will not be available in MyACT. Contact ACT to request scores.

 

Test Security Hotline

ACT’s test security practices are designed to ensure students who do their own work are not disadvantaged by students who do not and you can help – anonymously!

If you see it, report it.

Test Security Hotline

Can ACT test scores be cancelled?

ACT reserves the right to cancel test scores when there is reason to believe the scores are invalid. See the ACT Terms and Conditions (PDF) for details.

Outside of State testing and District testing, you may request to cancel scores for a particular test date. Contact us online and we will provide you a form to complete and return to us. We will then permanently cancel that score record for the indicated test date and send cancellation notices to any score recipients.