The science section of the ACT exam will now be optional

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https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5045587/act-exam-test-science-optional

The science section of the ACT exam will now be optional

JULY 19, 2024 2:31 AM ET
By Ayana Archie

The science section will now be optional on the ACT exam, and the exam duration will be decreased, the organization announced earlier this week.

The writing section was made optional in 2005. Students can now opt between several versions of the test: the ACT core exam (which includes reading, math and English), the ACT plus writing, the ACT plus science or the ACT plus science and writing.

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Additionally, the duration of the core exam will be reduced from three hours to two hours by making reading passages shorter and cutting out 44 questions total.

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The changes will start with online testing in spring of 2025 and “school-day” testing in spring of 2026.

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. Of course. Who cares about basic science anymore?

MAGAs will be happy. Thinking and understanding are really overrated!


Did I really need the sarcasm thingy?

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. At the behest, no doubt

of Red state goobernaters whose constituents don't believe in that science-y stuff.

[GiqueCee]

3. Dumb and Dumberer...

... Keep 'em stupid. They're easier to con.

[markodochartaigh]

4. In the 6,000 years since

God created our flat Earth around which the Sun rotates science has only distracted people from studying the one, true religion! If God had wanted his people to study science, he would have given them brains!

/s

[maspaha]

6. goD bless you, Sir!

I am humbled by your…

👏🏼👏🏼 👏🏼
I thought I was good, but you’ve won the day!
😆

[EYESORE 9001]

5. Yer shittin' me!?!

Unfathomable to me.

[Captain Zero]

7. When do they add a Bible Section to it?

nt

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Discouraging

I already had issues with schools using block scheduling where science & social studies are taken only every other day.
Now, applicants to college aren't going to be tested on basic knowledge of science unless they feel like it?
I'm opposed.