Important ACT Information

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS TAKING THE ACT: Beginning this year with the Class of 2013, students taking the PSAE will no longer take the ACT writing section. Students seeking admission to universities and colleges that require a writing score (including University of Illinois and many other schools) must take the writing section of the ACT or SAT on a national test date. Students are encouraged to check with their specific colleges for requirements.

Please know that eliminating the writing portion of the ACT was not District 204's decision. When the ACT is administered as part of the PSAE, the test is paid for by the IL State Board of Education. The IL State Board of Education decided to eliminate the writing portion of the test due to fiscal reasons at the state level. District 204, along with other districts, approached ACT to ask if individual districts could pay for the writing portion, but ACT has not allowed school districts to fund for that portion of the test.

ACT National Test Dates
SAT National Test Dates