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This all depends on your baseline score, your target score, and your test date.

If you don’t have a baseline score, you can start an Acely trial to take a free ACT practice test and then make your study plan.

To see the most improvement, we recommend studying for at least 3 months for at least 10 hours per week. This can help students boost their score by ~4 points.

With 20 hours of studying per week for 3 months, students can boost their score by more than 9 points. Again, this greatly depends on their starting score.

For best results, we recommend following Acely’s Study Plan that dynamically updates as you take Acely mock exams and work through problems in practice mode.

Acely is an ACT prep program that offers self-paced, personalized guidance so students can easily pinpoint weaknesses and tackle the new format of the official ACT test. With an online course, students get a broad overview of the basics through learning modules, an ACT study guide, and tutorials. These can be helpful for students starting from scratch. While a course can help cover fundamentals, Acely’s ACT test prep provides:

• 4,200+ targeted questions that are ideal for drilling weaknesses.

• 10++ full-length mock exams (far more than the 2 Enhanced exams ACT offers) so you never run out of test-like practice.

• Personalized, AI-driven study plans that guarantee every minute of your prep counts.

Enroll in a course to learn the basics, then use Acely for test-taking strategies that will create real score improvement by your ACT test date.

Once you create your Acely account and input your information, you will automatically begin the 72-hour (3-day) free trial, which allows you to access all of Acely’s features for free.

Please note that Acely requires a credit card before starting the 72-hour free trial so that we can verify student and parent identities and prevent spam and/or duplicate sign-ups.

After 72 hours, your payment method on file will automatically be billed based on the plan you selected during sign-up. If you cancel your paid subscription before the end of the trial period, you will have access to Acely’s paid features for the remainder of your free trial, then your access will be changed to our free “limited tier” plan. Our limited tier provides access to up to 100 questions in our question bank without hints, explanations, practice tests, or other paid features.

This all depends on your baseline score, your target score, and your test date.

To see the most improvement, we recommend studying for at least 3 months for at least 10 hours per week. This can help students boost their score by ~100 points.

With 20 hours of studying per week for 3 months, students can boost their score by more than 150 points. Again, this greatly depends on their starting score.

For best results, we recommend following Acely’s Study Plan that dynamically updates as you take Acely mock exams and work through problems in practice mode.

This all depends on your baseline score, your target score, and your test date.

If you don’t have a baseline score, you can start an Acely trial to take a free ACT practice test and then make your study plan.

To see the most improvement, we recommend studying for at least 3 months for at least 10 hours per week. This can help students boost their score by ~4 points.

With 20 hours of studying per week for 3 months, students can boost their score by more than 9 points. Again, this greatly depends on their starting score.

For best results, we recommend following Acely’s Study Plan that dynamically updates as you take Acely mock exams and work through problems in practice mode.

Students can use Acely for free with limited features after the 72-hour free trial (which requires a credit card to prevent spam and duplicate sign-ups).

The free tier gives students access to up to 100 questions in our question bank without hints or explanations. For a more personalized and beneficial experience, we recommend upgrading to one of our paid plans to get hints, performance dashboards, full-length practice tests, hard questions, projected scores, and more.

There are many test format changes, including:

• The Enhanced ACT is 125 minutes (about 2 hours) instead of ~195 minutes. Similar to the digital SAT, pacing

• Each section has fewer questions overall, so you actually get more time per question. That means in the ACT English & Reading sections, you can spend extra seconds reading carefully and eliminating answers.
• In the new ACT math section, there are now four answer options rather than five.
• The ACT Science section is now completely optional (and the Writing section continues to be optional). You can choose the ACT Core (English, Math, Reading) or add on Science/Writing sections of the ACT, depending on your goals. The Science test can be a great addition if you’re applying to a STEM college.
• Students can choose between taking the Enhanced ACT as a paper test or digitally.

Learn more about the changes in our blog post.