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In this issue brief, we compare the ACT scores and college enrollment rates of students who took a PreACT test with those of students who did not. We also examine average PreACT-to-ACT gain scores by performance in highschool courses, racial/ethnic group, and family income level. Figure 1 shows the number of students in the 2025 ACT-tested graduating class by PreACT testing status.  \nFigure 1. Number of Students in 2025 ACT-Tested Graduating Class , by PreACT Testing Status  \nNote. N = 1,380 , 130 for the 2025 ACT-tested graduating class. Scores from students’ first  \nPreACT 8/9 , PreACT, or PreACT Secure test are used for the gain score analyses in this report:  \n101 ,004 students took PreACT 8/9 as their first test, 307 ,224 took PreACT as their first test, and  \n59 ,288 took PreACT Secure as their first test.  \n© 2026 by ACT Education Corp. All rights reserved. | R2605  \nFinding 1: PreACT-tested students scored higher on the ACT and were more likely to be ready for college courses .  \nThe average ACT score for students who took a PreACT test was higher than that for students who did not (Figure 2) . Results varied across states, but on average, the state mean ACT Composite score was 20.86 for students who took PreACT and 19.86 for students who did not.  \nFigure 2. Mean ACT Scores by PreACT Testing Status  \nNote. For each state, mean ACT scores were obtained for students who took PreACT and for students who did not. To ensure that the state mean scores could be reliably estimated, we included only states with at least 1,000 PreACT-tested students in the 2025 ACT-tested graduating class. The mean scores were then averaged across 32 states to produce Figure 2, representing the typical mean scores observed across states.  \nThe difference in average scores ranged from 0.84 for mathematics to 1.30 for English (Figure 3) . The PreACT and No PreACT groups are not randomly equivalent. Differences between the two groups may be due to factors other than taking a PreACT test. We therefore used linear regression to estimate the adjusted difference between the two groups, accounting for academic and background variables associated with ACT scores. The adjusted difference provides an estimate of what the difference between the average ACT scores of the PreACT and No PreACT groups would be if the groups had the same academic and background variables. The variables included the ACT Rigor Index (a measure of high school grades and course rigor; Allen & Mattern, 2019), student demographics (gender, race/ethnicity, and family income level), high school characteristics (public/private status and school mean ACT Composite score), and months remaining until high school graduation (determined by ACT test  \ndate) . After the statistical adjustment, the differences in mean scores were much smaller, as shown in Figure 3.  \nFigure 3. Difference in Mean ACT Scores (PreACT Group − No PreACT Group)  \nNote. The results are averaged across 32 states.  \nThe difference in average ACT scores means that PreACT-tested students are more likely to be ready for first-year college courses and earn exemptions from remedial coursework. Figure 4 shows the percentage of students meeting each ACT College Readiness Benchmark by PreACT testing status. We obtained the percentages in Figure 4 by averaging percentages from 32 states.  \nFigure 4. Percentage Ready for First-Year College Courses , by PreACT Testing Status  \nThe difference in readiness for college courses ranged from 3.1% for courses commonly taken by STEM majors to 8.7% for English Composition (Figure 5) . After we made the statistical adjustments described earlier, the differences in college readiness were smaller. The adjusted differences in college readine","cbCaijbRjovqVr0N","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijbRjovqVr0N","pdf",5332039,12,"English","# Overview\n## Figure 1: PreACT testing status in 2025 ACT-tested graduating class\n# Finding 1\n## Figure 2: Mean ACT scores by PreACT testing status\n## Figure 3: Difference in mean ACT scores (adjusted and unadjusted)\n## Figure 4-5: College readiness benchmarks and differences\n# Finding 2\n## Figure 6-7: College enrollment rates by cohort year and differences","[{\"question\":\"How do college enrollment rates differ between PreACT-tested and No PreACT groups?\",\"answer\":\"For ACT-tested high school graduates of 2022, 2023, and 2024, college enrollment rates were higher for the PreACT group than the No PreACT group. After statistical adjustments for rigor, demographics, high school characteristics, and time to graduation, the enrollment differences were much smaller.\"}]","PreACT -Tested Students in the 2025 ACT-Tested Graduating Class - A Summary of Performance and Growth | PDF",1791522418]