If you didn’t know this, then here is a neat trade-secret.
All of your students who qualify for a fee waiver on the ACT receive access to the ACT Online Prep tool. This is NOT ACT Academy. The ACT Online Prep is a comprehensive diagnostic and teaching tool for which many students pay money to gain access.
It looks like this:
Your students who sign up* for a fee waiver will immediately receive an email from the ACT. In this email, they will see a link with an access code to sign up for the ACT Online Prep tool free of charge.
*Important note: students who take a state sponsored ACT during the school day, usually a Tuesday or Wednesday in February or March, will not receive an access code in an email. It must be a non-state mandated ACT test - typically on a Saturday.
Here’s the problem, your students who qualify for a fee waiver gain access to ACT Online Prep but then they have no idea how to use it. Furthermore, many teachers and interventionists haven’t worked with this tool either. But this isn’t their fault; how would they have learned? There’s no one out there teaching educators how to use this amazing tool from the ACT.
So we wanted to do something about that.
Here at TorchPrep, we bring students through our Private Test Prep curriculum. This is a service for which parents pay +$100/hr. And for good reason! Students who come through this program see anywhere from 3 to 10 point increases in single subjects.
At TorchPrep, we believe that all students deserve access to every opportunity for a brighter future. Therefore, in this video we break down the approach we use to help students see big increases in their ACT scores. We’ll show you our strategies, how we coach students, and how you can use this tool in interventions to help your students receive the attention, and opportunities, we all know that they deserve.
In summary, here’s a diagram on how to do interventions using the ACT Online Prep Tool.
For most of you, this article is hopefully a sigh of relief because you’ll be able to say “Oh, I was doing this right all along.” Keep up the good work and best of luck to your students!
