Superscore FAQs

Starting in April 2025, students who choose to take the online ACT test will have their ACT Superscore calculated using a new method that includes only English, math, and reading. For everyone else, this change will take effect in September 2025. We’ll continue to show your highest scores for each subject section along with the test date, but your Composite score on your Superscore report will be based on the new English, math, and reading. Your highest section test scores can come from ANY test event, whether it was on the legacy blueprint or the enhanced ACT.

This means a student who got their highest English their first time testing and on a legacy administration, their highest math on their second legacy administration, and their highest reading on the new enhanced ACT, would see those highest scores used to calculate their ACT Superscore Composite after the new enhanced ACT administration. The science score would be used to calculate the STEM score along with math but would not be used in the ACT Superscore Composite calculation.

All students who have taken the ACT more than once from September 2016 to current day.

Create or sign in to your MyACT account. Superscores will be visible in your account.

Superscores are available as soon as scoring is completed on the second ACT test.

Create or sign in to your MyACT account and request to send reports from your scores dashboard, and pay by credit card.

No, the writing section score is not figured into a Composite score; therefore, it’s not a component of a superscore. Just remember that some colleges require applicants to take the writing section.

Your superscore combines your best performances into one score that best reflects your abilities and, ultimately, allows you to put your best foot forward. The higher your ACT score, the more competitive you are when it comes to getting admitted into college and securing merit-based scholarships.

There has been some concern that using only the best subject-test scores could overstate students’ capabilities. However, research shows ACT superscores are better at predicting success in college than other scoring methods (including recent ACT score, average ACT Composite score, and highest ACT Composite score).

Yes, superscoring is fair to all students, regardless of their gender, race/ethnicity, family income level, or parental education level. Research found that the differences in test performance between student groups did not change with superscoring, which shows superscoring does not disadvantage one group over another.

It is important to point out that students who are eligible for the fee waiver program get registration fees covered for two ACT tests, which means they can also get a free superscore!

No, not all colleges superscore, but many do and the number is increasing. To find out if the college of your choice superscores the ACT, we recommend that you check out their test score use policy under admissions requirements on their website.

Why do colleges use a superscore?

Colleges who superscore the ACT see it as a student-friendly method of testing that best aligns with their holistic approach to admitting students to their school.