The ACT English Test and the SAT Writing and Language Test assess test-takers in various conventions of standard English, such as punctuation, sentence structure and formation, and usage.

The ACT lasts two hours and 55 minutes, though the 40-minute optional writing test would stretch that to a little more than three and a half hours. The ACT is composed of a 35-minute reading test ...

Unlike the SAT, the digital test in not adaptive and is ... students may use their own computer (which ACT does not not allow). The Reading and Writing section now has shorter passages with ...

A student’s composite score is the average of the four test scores. Some students also take the optional ACT writing test, but that score is not included in the composite score.

He said those students and their parents paid $68 apiece, plus $25 for the ACT writing test. Venhuizen’s proposal would have had the state Department of Education pay for students to take the ...