{"id":1795,"date":"2018-01-25T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2018-12-07T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T13:10:42","slug":"act-to-launch-free-test-prep-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/25\/act-to-launch-free-test-prep-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT to Launch Free Test Prep Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free test prep materials will soon be available online for students preparing to take the ACT.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa-based testing company announced this week that it would launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.act.org\/content\/act\/en\/products-and-services\/the-act\/test-preparation\/act-academy.html\">ACT Academy<\/a> in the spring. The platform will include video lessons, interactive practice questions, full-length practice tests, and educational games.<\/p>\n<p>Each student will receive a personalized study plan based on their scores from the ACT test, the PreACT, ACT practice tests, or diagnostics completed within the ACT Academy platform.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cACT Academy will help students improve their readiness for the ACT test and college readiness\u2026\u201d ACT official Suzana Delanghe said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/leadershipblog.act.org\/2018\/01\/act-to-launch-act-academy-free-online.html\">press release<\/a>. \u201cAnd the fact that ACT Academy will be free to all students is yet another way ACT is working to close gaps in equity, opportunity, and achievement for underserved learners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Academy materials were developed by ACT, Khan Academy, NASA, PBS, and other educational organizations. The platform will be compatible with all devices, including smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy\u2019s launch will give students more free opportunities to prepare for college admission exams. In 2015, College Board began offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/sat\">free materials<\/a> to help students get ready for the SAT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.act.org\/content\/act\/en\/products-and-services\/the-act\/test-preparation\/act-academy.html\">Learn more about the ACT Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/learning\/communities\/Admitted\/default.aspx\"><strong><em>Admitted<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><strong><em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free test prep materials will soon be available online for students preparing to take the ACT. The Iowa-based testing company announced this week that it would launch ACT Academy in the spring. The platform will include video lessons, interactive practice questions, full-length practice tests, and educational games. Each student will receive a personalized study plan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/25\/act-to-launch-free-test-prep-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ACT to Launch Free Test Prep Tool<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[166,382],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-admission","category-standardized-testing","tag-act","tag-test-prep"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ACTprep.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ACTprep.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ACTprep.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-sX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}