is it normal to have an inaccurate score on the PreACT that is different from the school (14) and MyACT(29)?
I took the test online on a school day in April 9, 2026, and on MyACT doesn't show my report just the total when I looked at schools with a min to max accepted ACT Score on plans and explore schools I didn't got any records about my score. My school sent my parents my ACT score and it's off. I contacted my counselor for a meeting and she pinned my preACT score to investigate and want to see if it's the school end or the ACT so I'm just waiting for a response I also did some digging on what's going on and heard that the ACT had some tech problem and pointed that out and added that I wasn't sure if it was true or false and I also documented it and pointed out that my ID is off...so I'm right now getting emails and physical mails from colleges, universities, and other National Honors Programs that have a minimum ACT score requirement in the 20's and I don't know what to do and I'm thinking about taking the SAT if its now a constant issue.
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As you did your research it is true that ACT suffered a widespread processing error with online, school-day tests in Spring 2026. According to them, they intentionally hid detailed score reports while fixing it.
However, your ACT is guaranteed that your scores would either stay the same or go up after the recalculation.
And also it updates automatically, the ACT board is automatically fixing the dashboards and sending the correct reports to colleges. So do not panic
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