ScoreSmart helps competitive high school students prepare for the ACT
ScoreSmart helps students and parents by giving them highly accurate practice tests, meaningful performance insights, and plenty of opportunities to practice.
High scoring students looking for an edge use ScoreSmart as their practice test platform of choice.
High scoring students looking for an edge use ScoreSmart as their practice test platform of choice.
Smart Features
Why ScoreSmart?
ScoreSmart is the all-in-one digital platform for ACT prep. Unlike traditional coaching, it combines adaptive testing with smart analytics to give learners a personalized path to higher scores.
What Sets Us Apart
Precise Diagnostic
Feedback
ScoreSmart's proprietary Par Time Analytics will benchmark your performance by target score, and then will analyze not just where you are losing points, but also where you are losing time. This is essential for surgically precise prep.
Faster Improvement Through Targeted Practice
Don't waste time on things you don't need to prep and and don't miss the areas that still need focus. ScoreSmart will help prioritise the areas that will have the greatest impact on your scores.
Tests You Can Trust!
ScoreSmart monitors the actual ACT and continuously upgrades its own tests to ensure that there are no surprises on test day.
Drill Banks Tied to Test Performance
ScoreSmart will analyze your performance on practice tests and create targeted quizes for your high-impact areas.
Real-Time Progress
Tracking
Monitor your growth through detailed score reports, pacing analytics, and section-level diagnostics.
Expert-Level Study
Materials
6 Full-length tests for the new Enhanced ACT, Over 5,000 tagged questions in the Drill Bank
Par-Time™ (Smarter Timing Insights)
Time-per-question, by itself, tells you nothing. Par-Time™ compares student pacing against peers in their target score range, showing where they’re ahead or falling behind. It doesn’t just measure time it measures whether their time was good enough for their goal.
Bluebook Uploading & Scoring
Bluebook tests are great. They are free and made by the test makers themselves, but all you get is a score. Bluebook offers no performance analytics to tell you where to improve. ScoreSmart, however, does this better than anyone. You can now upload your Bluebook Score report to Scoresmart to get full ScoreSmart analytics for each Bluebook test and to see all of your pratice test results in one place. This is a free service offered by ScoreSmart for all students.
Why use ScoreSmart’s Par-Time™
What happens if you get a question right, but it takes too much time? On a traditional score report, that question is marked correct and therefore rarely reviewed. On ScoreSmart, however, we can capture and display the areas where students struggle, regardless of the outcome on the question. Questions you got right, but that took too much time for your target score, need more attention. Until ScoreSmart, these questions were functionally invisible. Thanks to Par Time they are a crucial input into any effective personalized strategy.
The appropriate amount of time for each question depends on the student's target score and the difficulty of the question. This is why time per question alone tells you nothing. It must be contextualized for each question and each student. Par Time compares your performance on each question to the performance of your peers, by target score, on those same questions. This tells you where you are spending too much time relative to your goals. Par Time is the exclusive invention of ScoreSmart. It is essential for smart prep, but nothing like it exists on any other system.
The appropriate amount of time for each question depends on the student's target score and the difficulty of the question. This is why time per question alone tells you nothing. It must be contextualized for each question and each student. Par Time compares your performance on each question to the performance of your peers, by target score, on those same questions. This tells you where you are spending too much time relative to your goals. Par Time is the exclusive invention of ScoreSmart. It is essential for smart prep, but nothing like it exists on any other system.
Tools That Keep You Ahead
5,000+ realistic questions
Adaptive full-length digital ACT mock tests
Instant scoring and pacing analysis
Personalized improvement recommendations
7 Proven Strategies To Improve Your ACT Score
Practice Effectively
Longitudinal studies have shown that the students who take the most practice tests achieve the highest score improvements. You wouldn't dream of going into a high-stakes soccer match or piano recital without practicing. Don't take the ACT without being prepared!
Identify and Overcome Weaknesses
Learning experts will all tell you that the most effective practice is done with intention. Use practice tests as an opportunity to address a weakness. Use prior practice tests to tell you what to focus on when taking your next practice test.
Understand Your Biggest Opportunities
Some concepts show up a lot on the ACT while other show up only rarely. Your priority should be your personal areas for improvement in the order of frequency with which those areas show up on the test. Focus on your high frequency areas first.
Upgrade Your Math Techniques
You should have an approach to every Math Concept You Might See On Test Day. Practice that approach until it is automatic. When you see the concept show up, apply your approach.
Have a Reading Passage Strategy
Learn how to skim, scan, annotate, and cross-check questions to make reading passages more manageable and score higher.
Learn How to
Eliminate Wrong Answers
There are three times as many WRONG answers on the ACT as there are RIGHT ones. If you are not sure what the right answer is, Cross Off the Wrong Ones! Crossing off just two obviously wrong answer choices (often easy to do on even the hardest questions), ensures that you get around half of them correct - even if you have no idea what the right answer should be!
Improve Your Time Management
Trying to go faster just leads to stress and mistakes. Always work for accuracy, not speed. Speed comes naturally as a bi-product of mastery. When you get better at a certain content area or question type, you will move faster naturally. Therefore, they way to improve your time management is Practice, Practice, Practice!
Success Stories
They Practiced Smarter
and Scored Higher
“ScoreSmart has been a life-changer for me. With the increase in my ACT scores, I now feel confident applying to Ivy League schools.”
Samantha J.
Test Pricing
Choose Your Test Track
Switch between ACT plans to compare features, pricing, and what's included. Each test track includes full access to our platform tools.
Enhanced ACT
Free
Full length Digital ACT
Personalize Performance Analytics
Prioritized target areas for maximizing your score
Enhanced ACT 2
$35.00
Full length Digital ACT
Personalize Performance Analytics
Prioritized target areas for maximizing your score
Enhanced ACT 3
$35.00
Full length Digital ACT
Personalize Performance Analytics
Prioritized target areas for maximizing your score
Enhanced ACT 4
$35.00
Full length Digital ACT
Personalize Performance Analytics
Prioritized target areas for maximizing your score
Enhanced ACT 5
$35.00
Full length Digital ACT
Personalize Performance Analytics
Prioritized target areas for maximizing your score
Enhanced ACT Test 2-5
$120.00
Full length Digital ACT
Personalize Performance Analytics
Prioritized target areas for maximizing your score
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Use ScoreSmart's ACT tools: adaptive mock tests, subject-specific drills, and detailed score reports.
No, a 27 ACT score is above average. It places you roughly in the 87th percentile, meaning you scored better than 87% of test takers. While it may not be competitive for Ivy League schools, it’s a strong score for many well-ranked universities.
A 75th percentile score on the ACT is around 24–25. This means you scored higher than 75% of all students who took the test — a solid result that opens doors to many reputable colleges.
ScoreSmart provides free digital SAT and ACT practice tests that mirror the real exams.
The ACT is scored out of 36, so a 37 is not possible. The highest achievable composite score is 36, which represents a perfect performance across all sections.
To be in the top 1% of ACT test takers, you’ll need a composite score of 34–36. Achieving this range reflects exceptional performance and significantly strengthens applications to elite universities.
It’s unlikely to be admitted to Harvard with a 27 ACT, as their middle 50% range is typically 33–36. However, admissions also consider essays, extracurriculars, recommendations, and personal achievements. Improving your score or applying to universities with broader score ranges may increase your chances of admission.
A Perfect Score Is Within Reach
You don’t need a genius IQ to ace the SAT or ACT. With the right strategy, practice, and platform, a 1600 or 36 is possible. ScoreSmart helps you work smarter—not harder.
