When an examinee takes the ACT test online, ACT receives the test attempt as soon as testing completes and can begin processes to score and validate sooner.

Processing writing scores may take longer than the multiple-choice section due to additional processing steps in the score verification process.

While you’ll see your multiple-choice scores, including your composite score as soon as they become available. Your scores will not be reported to score recipients until all scores from the event are available, so they have a complete record of your test. 

Unlike a test event that occurs over the weekend, ACT Special testing occurs over a window of time following that test event. Scores are processed as soon as materials are received. In the case of online testing, scores are not released until the testing window is complete, to ensure there are no outstanding issues that may impact scores.

While the majority of scores are released on the initial score release date, not every score will release, and this can be due to a variety of issues:

• Answer documents from your test center arrived late due to mailing delay, rescheduled testing, or testing later in the Special Testing window or mailing delay.
• The "Matching Information" you provided on the answer document (name, date of birth, and Match Number) is not consistent with the Matching Information on your admission ticket. 
• An irregularity is reported at your test center. 
• Your test record may be undergoing additional equating analysis to ensure fairness across administrations and test cycles.

When available, your scores are posted online and accessed using your MyACT account. 
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Yes, you can choose to take the ACT as many times as you want. In fact, 43% of ACT test takers chose to take it more than once, and more than half of them improved their scores. 

You determine which set of scores is sent to colleges or scholarship programs. You can choose to send either scores from a specific test, or your superscore.

No. All scores from a test date will be reported together.   

Yes - superscoring enables you to combine writing scores from one test date with multiple-choice scores from another test date.

Certain national test dates and centers give you the opportunity to order a copy of your questions, your answers, the answer key, and scoring instructions—plus the writing prompt, scoring rubric, and scores assigned to the optional writing test. 

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If you tested before September 2011, your scores will not be available in MyACT. Contact ACT to request scores.

ACT reserves the right to cancel test scores when there is reason to believe the scores are invalid. See the ACT Terms and Conditions (PDF) for details.

Outside of State testing and District testing, you may request to cancel scores for a particular test date. Contact us online and we will provide you a form to complete and return to us. We will then permanently cancel that score record for the indicated test date and send cancellation notices to any score recipients.

If you need to change a score recipient, we recommend making any updates before test day.