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College and Career Readiness for Texas Students
Texas universities returned to requiring standardized testing scores, on applications for the Fall 2025 semester. Each Texas school needs to have policies that best fit their needs, and ACT has options to help your students with readiness.
Unlock Potential in Texas Students
We know that your students’ success doesn’t happen in a year. It happens year after year. Our holistic approach to college and career readiness serves the diversity of Texas students by helping win scholarship opportunities, navigate admissions policies, fill career gaps, and gain deep academic and knowledge insights found in their scores.
Next Steps
Explore the benefits of testing students on a school day.
Learn more by reviewing the Texas-related curated resources below.
Connect with ACT Texas experts. Request a district or school consultation and/or talk to an ACT representative.
Enroll for 2026-27
Participate in the ACT Texas Testing Program administration. Request your personalized enrollment link to start the process. Deadline for fall enrollment is mid-August, and the deadline for spring enrollment is early January 2027.
Connected System of Insights for Texas Educators
ACT offers a continuum of sequential assessments that students can take in the classroom. PreACT, ACT School Day Testing, and ACT WorkKeys are all designed to prepare your students for a lifetime of success — in college and beyond.
Connected Indicators and Predictors
The PreACT Individual Score Report and the ACT Individual Score Report provide comprehensive information about a student's needs, interests, background, and abilities. For example, the Progress Toward the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate is on both reports and on the PreACT report there is also a Predicted ACT Composite Score Range. These indicators help students and educators know if they are on target for success or if there are areas that need improvement.
Sample of PreACT Score Report Predictors
Sample of ACT Score Report Indicator
Texas college and university admissions experts find value in the solutions ACT offers to high school students.
The University of Texas at Austin Reinstates Standardized Test Scores in Admissions
The University of Texas at Austin will return to requiring standardized testing scores, beginning with applications for the Fall 2025 semester.
During changing admissions processes, such as this latest Texas announcement, we realize that the insight that the ACT brings about a students’ academic knowledge is a valuable tool for making sure that students have a proven differentiator of their readiness. Now is the time to plan for how to make sure juniors and seniors are ready to apply for Texas higher education.
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
“In helping students prepare for success in college, we have found that each student brings something different for enrollment professionals to consider. We strongly support traditional consideration areas like GPA and class rank as they indicate performance in high school and commitment to educational pursuits. However, standardized tests like the ACT provide additional opportunities to demonstrate understanding of key concepts that can be strong indicators to preparedness. When considering these factors as a whole (and even with co-curricular engagement), a stronger and more holistic predictor of student success can be achieved.”
Andy J. Benoit, Ed.D.
Vice President for Enrollment Management
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Huston-Tillotson University
“I think there still is a place for the ACT assessment in our current academic admission climate. Many schools still utilize these assessment tools for scholarship selection. So, while we are test optional, we still do heavily rely on those assessments to be the differentiating factor for our students, for those merit scholarships and those other scholarships that they may be eligible for.”
Yohannis Job
Vice President for Enrollment Management
Huston-Tillotson University
Toolbox
Texas Data with ACT's Online Reporting Tool
ACT College Readiness Benchmarks
An Educator's Guide to College and Career Readiness
Free Test Prep for Your Students
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ACT Alignment with Texas Needs and Trends
The state of Texas is expected to represent nearly 10 percent of all future STEM opportunities in the US*, and more than half of the jobs in the state right now require STEM skills. With the ACT being the only test offering individual science and math scores, you’ll showcase your achievements to be STEM ready!
*Source: https://www.learningundefeated.org/student-resources-texas/
ACT scores* can qualify students to be exempt from taking the Texas Success Initiative Assessment (TSIA).
*Students having a combined score of 40 on the English and Reading (E+R) tests shall be exempt for both reading and writing or ELAR sections of the TSI Assessment. A score of 22 on the mathematics test shall be exempt for the mathematics section of the TSI Assessment.