ACT Tomorrow

For Juniors and Seniors who have already registered, we will be administering the ACT with Writing tomorrow March 7. ALL OTHER STUDENTS SHOULD NOT REPORT TO SCHOOL. Students will check in at 8:00 am - 8:25 am. Please be on time! Students who arrive late to the test will not be admitted. Once you arrive at Century, look for the student lists on the walls and find where you will be testing. You will either have a room assignment or seating assignment in the Gym. Please get to your testing location as soon as you can so we can get started on time.

All students will receive a snack during the break and lunch will be available in the cafeteria following the general test session. Accommodated students will have their bagged lunches delivered to their test area.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Lorie at loleske@rochesterschools.org.

9th Grade Pre ACT Testing Monday, January 30, 2023

This is a reminder about the Pre ACT that will be given to 9th grade students on Monday, January 30. Registration will be from 8:00 - 8:20 AM in the Century Gym. Students should bring with them #2 pencils (no mechanical pencils) , a calculator, and their student ID. No electronic devices are allowed during the test. Lunch will be served at 12:30. Students will report to class at 1:00.

ACT Testing

 Attention ALL Juniors: The ACT is coming to Century High School.

 On April 5, ALL Juniors and a few Seniors will be participating in the ACT.

 Things to know:

• You do not need to register for this test.
• School will start at its regular time and buses will run as usual.
• Students NOT taking the ACT DO NOT come to school on April 5.
• Look for more information coming soon.
• Questions can be directed to loleske@rochesterschools.org.

Study Materials on CHS Google Site: https://sites.google.com/isd535.org/chscourseinfo2021-22/school-counselors/testing/act?authuser=0

ACT Information for Students Testing March 2

Please note that March 2 is a school day only for those Juniors and Seniors who are taking the ACT. 

The ACT test date is Tuesday March 2, 2021.  Testing will begin at approximately 8:30 AM and should conclude by 2:00 PM.  Students will have access to a cold breakfast and/or lunch here at school should they so choose, before and after the test, respectively. Students should watch their e-mail for forthcoming information about your assigned test room. 

Most students have picked up pre-registration information and have hopefully used that to set up ACT accounts. Students who have not done so will have up to two days after the test to complete this task. 

Students will be required to wear a face mask/covering at all times while on site for ACT testing and will be asked to maintain social distancing with other students and staff.  Students should bring multiple #2 pencils for testing, an approved calculator, and a photo ID. Do not bring electronic devices other than an approved calculator to the ACT. 

Students are welcome to provide their own transportation to/from school, however adjusted bus routes will be running should students need district transportation.  The bus route document outlines the routes that will be running and the adjusted stops/times for pick up.  Return routes will simply run in reverse, leaving the HS at approximately 2:30 PM.  Transportation is not provided for students within the HS walk zone.

Students, prior to entering the building for you ACT test on Tuesday, March 2.  Please review the following and if you have any symptoms you MUST stay home. If you have COVID symptoms on test day, contact Mr. Couillard to get on the list to take the test on March 16 instead. 

All participants should use the Minnesota Symptom

Screener:https://mn.gov/covid19/for-minnesotans/if-sick/is-it-covid/

Each student should check their temperature at home, and refrain from testing if he or she has a fever

(≥100.3 degrees F). All students should be monitoring their symptoms at home to ensure that:

• He/she is not currently demonstrating or suffering from any ill symptoms
• Any individual who is unable to confirm the above criteria should not test and contact both their school and healthcare provider.
• He/she has not had any close contact with a sick individual or anyone with a confirmed case of COVID-19
• He/she has not had a suspected or documented case of COVID-19 in the last 14 days
• He/she is not currently quarantined due to a COVID-19 exposure

ACT Registration Update

 

Thank you to all students who have responded to the ACT survey and stopped by to pick up your ACT registration materials. If you have not yet done so and want to take the exam, you can still pick them up through this Friday at 4:30 PM. If you can’t make it this week, we will have the registration materials available for you on test day and you will have until two days after the exam to set up your account with ACT. Doing this will ensure you get back your score report.

At this point it is our understanding that students do not intend to take the ACT this year if they have not either let us know on the survey of their intent to take the test, or let us know they wanted to take it when stopping by to pick up registration materials. If you have not already let us know of your intent to take the test and still wish to take it, you can contact Mr. Couillard about taking the ACT on the March 16 make-up day.

ACT on March 2

JUNIORS!     Do you want to take the free ACT on March 2? 

Please pick up registration materials from the Century Media Center between 7am-4:30pm through Friday, Feb. 26.

Students, prior to entering the building for your ACT test on Tuesday, March 2.  

Please review the following and if you have any symptoms you MUST stay home.

All participants should use the Minnesota Symptom

Screener:https://mn.gov/covid19/for-minnesotans/if-sick/is-it-covi

Each student should check their temperature at home, and refrain from testing if he or she has a fever (≥100.3 degrees F). All students should be monitoring their symptoms at home to ensure that:

·         He/she is not currently demonstrating or suffering from any ill symptoms

·         Any individual who is unable to confirm the above criteria should not test and contact both their school and healthcare provider.

·         He/she has not had any close contact with a sick individual or anyone with a confirmed case of COVID-19

·         He/she has not had a suspected or documented case of COVID-19 in the last 14 days

·         He/she is not currently quarantined due to a COVID-19 exposure

 

CLICK HERE FOR CALCULATOR POLICY

ACT Offered at Century March 2 for Free for All Juniors

 

Century Juniors and Families,

 

In response to the recent learning model announcement for secondary schools we have been working on a final plan for ACT testing.  The ACT cannot be administered remotely so we are planning for all of logistics related to in-person testing including transportation, food service, supervision, and COVID-19 mitigation procedures.

 

The ACT has historically been used as a college admissions exam that has often been a required component of an application for many colleges; however, recently most colleges have announced test blind or test optional policies for at least the next couple of admission cycles and in all likelihood most students in our junior class will not need an ACT score to apply to a college of their choice. An additional consideration is scholarship criteria, and at present it appears that a number of scholarship programs are still using ACT scores as an eligibility factor.

 

The initial ACT test date will be Tuesday March 2, 2021 with a make-up date scheduled for Tuesday March 16, 2021.  All grade 11 students have the opportunity to come to school and participate in a cost-free ACT exam.  Testing will begin at approximately 8:30 AM and will conclude at or about 2:00 PM.  Students will have access to a cold breakfast and/or lunch here at school should they so choose.

 

Students who plan to take the ACT with us on March 2 should try to pick up materials ahead of time explaining how to do the required online registration for the exam. Students who do not complete this ahead of time will have a limited window of two days to complete this task after testing is complete. Each student has an individualized code for registration that they can pick up at Century along with a pamphlet explaining how to do online registration. Students can stop by to pick up these materials through Friday, February 26.

 

Students will be required to wear a face mask/covering at all times while on site for ACT testing and will be asked to maintain social distancing with other students and staff.  Students are encouraged to bring multiple #2 pencils for testing as well as something quiet to occupy their time should testing conclude early.

 

Students are welcome to provide their own transportation to/from school, however adjusted bus routes will be running should students need district transportation.   Return routes will simply run in reverse, leaving the HS at approximately 2:30 PM.  Transportation is not provided for students within the HS walk zone.

 

Should you have specific questions about ACT testing please contact Darren Couillard, 328-5004 (e-mail: dacouillard@rochesterschools.org) .  Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on March 2!

ACT at Century on March 2

 

Currently the school district is planning to offer an ACT to all juniors and seniors who did not take the ACT with us last year. For planning purposes, we need to know how many students will plan on coming to take the ACT with us. Note that many, perhaps most, colleges and universities are announcing test optional policies for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 admission cycles and that an ACT or SAT admission test is likely not going to be a required component of your college application. However, some scholarship programs will likely still use test scores as part of their criteria. We will be using the results of this survey to determine who will and will not be coming in to take the test. Students who choose to take this exam will have some additional pre-registration actions they will need to take prior to exam day. 

Click here for the link to the survey. (Note that students must be signed in to their ISD 535 google account to access the survey).

It is important that we hear back from all our juniors about whether or not they plan to take the exam. If you indicate you intend to take the test, we will plan on you joining us on March 2. If you do not inform us of your intent to take the test, we will not have a test for you that day. Juniors who do not take the exam this year will have the option to take the ACT when we give it next spring instead. 

Ahead of the test, doing a little bit of practice could be a good idea. ACT has free practice questions and exams available on their website: https://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/test-preparation/free-act-test-prep.html 

On the ACT website, you can also register for National Test dates, note that there is a fee to take the test through ACT on a National Test date, but there is not a fee to take it at school on the District ACT test day. 

You can also access a full online test prep course along with additional practice exams through your MCIS account. 

PSAT Offered at Century Wednesday, October 14

 

Century will be offering the PSAT to all Juniors who wish to take it on October 14 at Century. The PSAT is an optional practice test for the SAT, and also used for qualification for the National Merit Scholarship Competition and related programs. The PSAT is directly comparable to the SAT, and as a timed standardized test on academic skills is somewhat comparable to the ACT. 

By taking this and comparing your score to how you do on the ACT junior year, you can decide whether it might make sense to take an SAT as well. The PSAT also serves as a qualifier for the National Merit Scholarship Competition when taken Junior year. It is a standardized test that consists of  tests in Reading, Writing & Language and Math. Students can pick up a PSAT information packet that includes a paper practice test at the Century main entry during school hours. 

Complete the form and pay $17 by October 7 to register. Note that you must be logged into an isd535 student account to access the form. The link to the payment site will follow completion of the form. Students eligible for free or reduced lunch can select to pay by fee waiver instead. Follow this link to the online registration form for the PSAT: Fill out form