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Show VHS junior has perfect ACT score Getting a perfect score wasn't the only thing Harrison had to be happy about. His mother, Pinky Harrison, gave him $350 because she lost a bet with her son about the ACT. ' J Harrison is a study-o-holic, but he's not. "I don't do much homework, except ex-cept on Sunday nights," he said. "I just pay attention when I'm in school and I don't fret too much." "John doesn't study a lot," his mother added, "he just has a real desire to do well in school and a real thirst for knowledge. He takes his education very seriously." Elain Dubois, an honors English teacher, said that Harrison seems to pick up on things very quickly and he's a wonderful student to teach. "John's vocabulary is very well advanced for a junior honors student. stu-dent. He's also very good with history and he's very much up on current events," she said. Since Harrison doesn't do a lot of homework, he has plenty of time to ride his mountain bike, play basketball, basket-ball, camp and hike. He is also on Viewmont's swim team. Harrison said he has no idea what he wants to do when he gets older. He was offered a summer job at the University of Utah's laser lab. He plans on working as an assistant to a professor. I've taken. So my mom said she would bet me $350 if I got a 36," he said. Harrison's school counselor later gave him the exciting news of his perfect test score, and he immediately im-mediately called his mom to tell her that she owed him $350. He bought a mountain bike frame with the money and put the rest into savings. Harrison, who carries a 4.0 grade point average, has plenty to be proud pro-ud of. He's been on the high honor roll since 1986. He was the sophomore Academic All Star for 1990, which is the equivalent of class valedictorian. Last summer he studied United State Government Debate at Georgetown Summer School in Washington, D.C. for the Junior Statesmen Association. Harrison also obtained college credit for taking so many advanced placement classes. He's had AP American history, AP physics, honors English, AP calculus, AP European history and AP biology. He is also a member of the 1991 Academic Olympiad team. Most people might think that By KRIS JOHNSON Staff Writer BOUNTIFUL A Viewmont High School junior is among the elite few to chalk up a perfect score on the national American College Testing (ACT) exam, authorities said Thursday. John Harrison beat the odds and answered every ACT question correctly. cor-rectly. Last year, just 19 high school students out of 817,096 who took the test scored perfectly on the ACT. Of the 36 points available on the college entrance exam, 20.6 is the average score for students across the nation, an ACT spokesman said. Harrison is the first Viewmont student to get a perfect ACT score, the spokesman said. He prepared for the college entrance en-trance exam by taking a practice test, getting a good night's sleep and staying relaxed. "For the most part, I'm a worry-free worry-free person and I really wasn't worried wor-ried about the ACT because I knew that I could take it over," he said. JOHN HARRISON "When I got home from taking the test, I told my parents that I didn't think I missed any of the questions. My mom didn't believe me because I've always made stupid mistakes on the other tests |