Where Do You Take a Standardized Test?

You could go to your school, but you could be at all kinds of places.

A typical high school, which isn’t necessarily your standardized test center. Photo by Nicholas Fuentes on Unsplash

Where will you take the SAT^® or ACT^®?

Lost in aiming for a score or finding your best test date, determining where you will be taking the test is a crucial element you must know. That is also possibly a question you haven’t thought about much. After all, you can take the tests anywhere, and both tests are available in all 50 states and all United States territories.

Also, the vast majority of students take the SAT or ACT at their own high school during a regular school day. 68% of the 1.97 million SAT takers in the graduating class of 2024 took the test as part of the SAT School Day program. 78% of the 1.4 million ACT takers in the same group took the test during ACT District Testing. The math works out that about 2 and a half million students will take the SAT or ACT on a school day. (If you’re unsure if you will be one of them, ask your counselor. Your school decides whet…