Essay

The ACT announced this week that they were abandoning the 1-36 scoring on their optional essay and returning to its 2-12 scale. As we noted in a previous blog post, the ACT faced various [...]

With school letting out for the summer, every student is entitled to a break from schoolwork.  Enjoy your free time, but remember that you most likely have some summer reading to do, too. Summer [...]

Over the past several weeks, Summit has heard from a number of families who have concerns about ACT essay scores. In general, ACT essay scores from this past fall seem low. In the most noteworthy [...]

Last September, the ACT adopted a new Writing Test. This new essay task is more complex, but the challenge is not unsurmountable; students can still handle it with confidence and skill if they [...]

Those student pioneers who sit for the first administration of the redesigned SAT (rSAT) in March will end the test by writing an essay – a 50-minute rhetorical analysis assignment that requires [...]