What does it mean to be College Ready?
ACT defines college readiness as the acquisition of the knowledge and skills a student needs to enroll and succeed in credit-bearing , first year courses at a postsecondary institution (such as a two- year, four-year, trade school, or technical school) without the need for remediation.
ACT's definition of college readiness was adopted by the Common Core State Standards Initiative and provides a unifying goal upon which educators and policymakers must now act.
Students who meet ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks are:
ACT's definition of college readiness was adopted by the Common Core State Standards Initiative and provides a unifying goal upon which educators and policymakers must now act.
Students who meet ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks are:
- substantially more likely to enroll in college
- less likely to need remediation
- more likely to achieve a grade of B or higher in specific college courses
- more likely to re-enroll in the same postsecondary institution their second year
- more likely to persist to degree completion
- Help to interpret what the scores earned in EXPLORE, PLAN and the ACT mean
- Identify the knowledge and skills students are likely to demonstrate at various score levels on each academic test
- Serve as a direct link between what students have learned and what they are ready to learn next