OCR Text |
Show Bountiful Students Have Five Chances Students at Bountiful High who are considering attending attend-ing college after graduation will have five opportunities during the 1977-78 school year to use the ACT Assessment program, a guidance-oriented service that is used each year by students throughout the nation as part of their college and career planning. THE first of five national test dates on which the ACT assessment tests will be offered of-fered is Saturday morning, Oct. 8. Junior or senior students planning to take the exams on that date must have registered by Sept. 12, it was announced by Maree Rees Dormeyer, senior counselor. She said the full 1977-78 schedule of national test dates (with registration periods in parentheses) is: Oct. 8, (Aug. 8Sept. 12); Nov. 19, (Sept. 26--Oct. 21); Feb. 11, 1978 (Nov. 14--Jan. 13); April 1, 1978 (Feb. 6-March 3); June 17, 1978 (March 27-May 19). AT AREA test centers on those dates it takes students about three hours to complete four standardized exams (covering subject areas of English, math, social studies, and natural sciences) that make up the test section. The ACT Assessment's other important im-portant section is a two-part questionnaire that is completed by students at home as part of the registration registra-tion process. The test scores provide an assessment of general educational educa-tional development and the questionnaire section information infor-mation focuses on academic and nonacademic accomplishments ac-complishments and interests, anticipated needs, as well as educational and career plans. THE resulting test scores and extensive questionnaire information are used by students and their counselors and families to assist in education and career planning. plan-ning. The information is also used by colleges for academic advisement, admissions counseling, course sectioning and placement, student services, ser-vices, and institutional research. The basic student fee is $7.50 for the ACT Assessment Program, which is recommended recom-mended or required for use by student applicants at more than 2,600 colleges and scholarship agencies. THE ACT Assessment Program is one of several guidance-oriented educational educa-tional services provided for students and educational institutions ins-titutions by ACT (The American College Testing Program). With its national headquarters in Iowa City, Iowa, the nonprofit organization organiza-tion also maintains 13 regional offices in other parts of the nation. |