I believe the practice experience is useful for all the reasons listed by Kriston and others. If I hadn�t visited this site on a regular basis, I might not have thought to have my kids test young, so thanks everyone.

My daughter took the ACT and the SAT for the first time this year as an 8th grade student. Her confidence level was much higher for the SAT, which followed the ACT testing.

I have a question regarding the scores staying on their permanent record in high school. For some reason, I was under the impression that the SAT maintained scores for testing done after 8th grade, but ACT didn�t include scores in the student�s permanent record until 10th grade.

Can anyone clarify whether ACT also keeps records beginning in 9th grade? Than