From the good folks at Applerouth: The Enhanced ACT Explained: Changes, Challenges, and Expert Tips
An interesting year for the Class of 2026, to be sure. So many of my clients take one final ACT in September of their senior year and thus will take this “enhanced” ACT regardless of whether testing on paper or digitally. School day testing in NC this February will still require students to take the science section (often a student’s second test) and will likely be on paper.
Students and families are rightly curious what this all means from a scoring perspective. From the article: “The new test will also continue to be scored on a 1-36 scale, and scores are considered to be vertically aligned with the old test (i.e. if you take the newer test, your composite score should be the same or very close to what you would have scored on the older version of the test, provided you took the tests on the same day).”
I’m going to have to get used to adding three sections and dividing by three to determine superscores (now rounding up at .66, down at .33)!