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PLAN for your future

Your scores are between 1 and 32 What Do My Scores Mean? Your scores are between 1 and 32 1 (the lowest score you can receive) 32 (the highest score you can receive). PLAN takes the number of questions you got right on each test and translates it into a number between 1 and 32. You can’t Fail the Plan: It is a Snapshot of your skills at that time

How Do My Scores Compare with Those of Other Students Who Took PLAN? Next to your scores, you'll find the percent of students scoring at or below your score. This shows you how your scores compare to those of students across the country who took PLAN. The example above shows 83% next to the student's English score. This means she scored as high as or higher than 83% of students in the comparison group who took PLAN. The other percents show how you scored relative to other students who took PLAN in your school, your school district, and your state. Percentages are not grades

Am I on Track? The estimated ACT Composite score range It is a prediction about how you are likely to score on the ACT. Improving your study habits and taking more challenging courses are likely to improve your ACT scores. If you do not like you estimated score than you have 7 months to work hard and improve it!

Thinking about College? ACT has also developed College Readiness Benchmark Scores. If you meet these benchmark scores, you are on your way to having the skills you will need by the time you finish high school. The checkmarks show whether you scored above, at, or below the benchmark scores.

How Can I Improve? The back of your Score Report describes the skills and knowledge you already probably have. You'll also see some ideas for improving even more in the different subject areas. The suggestions are based on your scores and can help you do better. This can help you and boost your score!

Your Future When you took PLAN, you answered questions about your future educational plans. This information can help you clarify your goals and plan for your future What classes the colleges will want to see

Areas checked on your report are the areas you said you needed help with. Have you gone to get help? Your Reported Needs When you took PLAN, you were asked whether or not you needed help in seven different areas

Your Career Possibilities! It's not too soon to begin exploring possible careers! Your PLAN Score Report helps you start by focusing on a few career areas. The map helps you see similarities and differences between majors, based on student preferences for activities involving data, ideas, people, and things. Arts majors enjoy all types of activities, but primarily those involving ideas and people. Thus Arts majors are shown in the lower-left area of the map where those activities come together

Data: Recording, admitting, verifying and organizing facts Fluid chart. Data: Recording, admitting, verifying and organizing facts Ideas: Creating, discovering, analyzing and interpreting People: Helping, informing, persuading, entertaining, motivating and directing Things: Repairing, transporting, servicing and producing