ACT, SAT, or P-ACT?

[bandit957]

If you graduated high school and went on to college in the U.S., you probably took one of those 3 tests.

I took the P-ACT when I was a senior, because it's the only one my high school offered. It's also the only one that no college today accepts. It's been so long since colleges have accepted the P-ACT that Wikipedia doesn't even have an entry about the P-ACT, and you can hardly find anything about it online. I also took the P-ACT Plus as a high school sophomore, which was useless. It was like one of those vanity standardized tests everyone is forced to take now.

When I took the P-ACT as a senior, I had to go over to Thomas More College on a Saturday to take it. I have no recollection of what my scores were.

Just before high school, I had to take the Iowa Test of Essential Skills (or whatever it was called back then), even though I was a Kentucky resident. That test was horrible. But my high school absolutely worshiped it.

[kphoger]

I took the ACT, scored an overall 32, got 80% of my tuition to a private university paid for with zero loans, then proceeded to not attend class and flunk out my first year.

[ET21]

ACT, got a 22

[ozarkman417]

The P-SAT was offered to sophomores this year, but since colleges only look at Junior (11th) year scores, I saw no point in taking it.
My school counselor decided it would be a good idea for about ten students at the school the take the ACT... in seventh grade. I was one of the selected few. I only got a dozen points as I only ended up answering half of the questions.

[jeffandnicole]

Took the SATs...ended up with a 1010 out of 1600.

Iowa's...took them every year in elementary school. I usually did well on them.

[oscar]

I took the SATs. Long enough ago that the tests and their scoring have probably changed a lot. So it doesn't matter that I don't remember my scores, just that they didn't keep me out of my first-choice school.

Later, I overheard some undergrads in a movie line, talking about their PSATs (which didn't count for anything back then -- as ozarkman417 points out, they still don't). I was appalled.

[Big John]

I took the PSAT in 11th grade.  Did rotten in the verbal section as it contained mostly words that i never heard of.  On the other hand i got in the 99th percentile in the math portion.

With that I knew that taking the SAT would drag me down.  So I took the ACT in 12th grade and thought it was a fairer test

[jp the roadgeek]

Took the SAT's in 7th grade as part of a John's Hopkins program.  Got a 510 in math and 370 verbal.  My class was the last class under the old SAT.  I got a 1230 (710 math, 520 verbal)

[1995hoo]

I took the SAT one time, late in my junior year of high school, with no test preparation or anything. Scored well enough that I didn't take it again. I scored higher on the verbal portion than on the math portion, though the difference was only ten points.

For the LSAT, I did self-study preparation–took an adaptive test that told me where I was weak and then focused on that part of the test (the logic games). It worked–I didn't miss any questions on that part of the test.

[Scott5114]

I took the ACT, scored an overall 32, got 80% of my tuition to a private university paid for with zero loans, then proceeded to not attend class and flunk out my first year.

Basically what happened to me, except I didn't skip class–I ended up in a math class that was too far above my level.

[US 89]

I took both the ACT and SAT but wound up doing quite a bit better on the ACT, so that was the score I used for all my college applications. I took those either at another local high school or at the University of Utah - except when the SAT location was randomly moved from Salt Lake to Weber State in Ogden only a week before the test. I took advantage of that opportunity to clinch SR 203 and SR 53.

I took the Iowa tests every year in elementary and middle school, except for a couple years where we took the "SAT" (Stanford Achievement Test). Then when I got to high school, my freshman and sophomore years I took the Aspire test which was sort of the ACT-produced equivalent of the PSAT. My high school had everyone take the PSAT in their junior year, but I was also "selected" to take it my sophomore year, which involved staying four hours after school, on the last day before fall break. It sucked.

[catch22]

I took the ACT as a junior, per the advice of my high school counselor.  (The university I was planning to attend had an early admissions program based in part on one's ACT score.)

A couple of weeks later, I get called down to the school office to see the counselor.  "Well, you won't have to worry about your admission being accepted. You scored a 36 on the ACT."   That didn't sound very good to me (like, out of 100?) until she explained exactly what that meant.  To this day, I don't know how that happened, since at best I was just an average test-taker.  Anyhow, that score got me a scholarship that paid for my tuition for all four years.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Did the ACT (21 or 22), SAT (1150, IIRC), and even the GRE for grad school (1060)

[Rothman]

ACT, SAT, LSAT (a gratefully aborted detour) and then GRE.

[J N Winkler]

In my case, I definitely took the PSAT and SAT in high school, and probably also the ACT.  I hadn't actually heard of a P-ACT before this thread.  I don't remember my scores on any of these exams except for the PSAT, which was high enough to clear the threshold for designation as a National Merit semifinalist.

At the time I was applying to colleges, Kansas still had open admission to state universities for in-state residents.  I also applied to two universities out of state and was accepted by one.