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BREAKTHROUGH ACT PREP offers an energetic, 8-session seminar that meets in-person once per week. With over 20 hours of expert instruction and test simulation, we offer the most thorough ACT Prep course available and will help you test with confidence and achieve the high ACT score you need to gain admission to the college of your choice. In the unlikely event our State Governor changes our current Covid policies and prohibits us from meeting in-person, we will pivot venues and complete our course remotely. Each student, therefore, may need to use a Zoom account to access our meeting times.
Learn Valuable Test-Taking Strategies!
BREAKTHROUGH ACT PREP will show you how to use the structure and format of the ACT to your advantage. Learn the most effective score-raising strategies in a dynamic, interactive setting from experienced high-school teachers who specialize in ACT prep instruction. Small class sizes and strategic grouping will ensure that you get the personal attention and extra help you need to maximize your score.
Get a Personalized Plan of Action!
Your experience with BREAKTHROUGH ACT PREP begins with a full-length diagnostic exam. We use the results of this exam to develop an individualized home-study plan based on your specific test-taking strengths, weaknesses, and unique goals, including prep for the ACT Writing Test.
Earn the Score You Need!
In today’s competitive market, despite it being an optional part of one's admissions portfolio, your ACT score matters more than ever! College admissions officers continue to regard the ACT score as the most important criterion in determining which applicants make the cut. Students with high GPAs often lose in the admissions game to students with lower GPAs but higher ACT scores.
Qualify for More Scholarship Money!
Not only do college admissions officers use your ACT score to decide which candidates to accept, but they also use it to determine whom they offer scholarship money. To attract academic talent, almost every competitive 4-year college looks to the ACT score to award merit-based scholarships worth thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars per academic year. For further insight into college costs, click here.
Should I take the SAT or ACT?
Here in Illinois, some confusion has emerged over which test--the SAT or the ACT--is "better" to take for college admission. This confusion stems from Illinois' semi-recent decision to dismiss the ACT and adopt the SAT as the state's "No-Child-Left-Behind" State-Standards Exam for 11th-grade Public School students. It is important to note that this legislative decision has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on which test is "better" for college admissions: both the SAT and the ACT are acceptable entrance exams for nearly every college in the nation. In other words, nearly every college that accepts ACT scores as an admissions and scholarship criteria also accepts SAT scores--and vice versa. For most students, however, the ACT is still the smarter choice to prepare for and take because the ACT remains a more "beatable" exam than the SAT--once the student learns the strategies to beat it.
BREAKTHROUGH ACT PREP offers an energetic, 8-session seminar that meets in-person once per week. With over 20 hours of expert instruction and test simulation, we offer the most thorough ACT Prep course available and will help you test with confidence and achieve the high ACT score you need to gain admission to the college of your choice. In the unlikely event our State Governor changes our current Covid policies and prohibits us from meeting in-person, we will pivot venues and complete our course remotely. Each student, therefore, may need to use a Zoom account to access our meeting times.
Learn Valuable Test-Taking Strategies!
BREAKTHROUGH ACT PREP will show you how to use the structure and format of the ACT to your advantage. Learn the most effective score-raising strategies in a dynamic, interactive setting from experienced high-school teachers who specialize in ACT prep instruction. Small class sizes and strategic grouping will ensure that you get the personal attention and extra help you need to maximize your score.
Get a Personalized Plan of Action!
Your experience with BREAKTHROUGH ACT PREP begins with a full-length diagnostic exam. We use the results of this exam to develop an individualized home-study plan based on your specific test-taking strengths, weaknesses, and unique goals, including prep for the ACT Writing Test.
Earn the Score You Need!
In today’s competitive market, despite it being an optional part of one's admissions portfolio, your ACT score matters more than ever! College admissions officers continue to regard the ACT score as the most important criterion in determining which applicants make the cut. Students with high GPAs often lose in the admissions game to students with lower GPAs but higher ACT scores.
Qualify for More Scholarship Money!
Not only do college admissions officers use your ACT score to decide which candidates to accept, but they also use it to determine whom they offer scholarship money. To attract academic talent, almost every competitive 4-year college looks to the ACT score to award merit-based scholarships worth thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars per academic year. For further insight into college costs, click here.
Should I take the SAT or ACT?
Here in Illinois, some confusion has emerged over which test--the SAT or the ACT--is "better" to take for college admission. This confusion stems from Illinois' semi-recent decision to dismiss the ACT and adopt the SAT as the state's "No-Child-Left-Behind" State-Standards Exam for 11th-grade Public School students. It is important to note that this legislative decision has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on which test is "better" for college admissions: both the SAT and the ACT are acceptable entrance exams for nearly every college in the nation. In other words, nearly every college that accepts ACT scores as an admissions and scholarship criteria also accepts SAT scores--and vice versa. For most students, however, the ACT is still the smarter choice to prepare for and take because the ACT remains a more "beatable" exam than the SAT--once the student learns the strategies to beat it.
