Each year MPS offers one official, free ACT with Writing test to all 11th graders. This year the ACT with Writing for the Class of 2026 (current 11th graders) will take place at Southwest during the regularly scheduled school day on April 23rd.
Registration not required. All MPS 11th graders are automatically "registered" for this administration of the ACT.
This will be an online ACT test, but must be taken at school.
No regularly-scheduled classes will take place on ACT day for 11th grade students.
Southwest High School and Breakaway Test Prep, Minnesota’s premier test prep and tutoring organization, are pleased to host three, six-week ACT prep classes. These classes will provide an excellent introduction to the ACT and cover the four multiple choice sections of the test – English, math, reading and science. For full information about this test prep resource, please reach out to College and Career Coordinators.
For additional information about other test prep options, please refer to this document.
First think back and try to remember if you were in class the week before that ACT that took place here at school when counselors visited English classes and walked everyone through setting up their online MyACT account.
If you were there, you just need to sign in to your online ACT account to access your score. If you forgot your password or user name, you can click that button when trying to login on ACT's website and do a reset.
If you weren’t there in class when counselors walked you through the online account set up, you need to contact ACT to get your ACT ID. Their phone number is 319-337-1270 or you can submit this contact form and wait for them to get back to you. Once you know your ACT ID, you’ll follow the directions below:
Go to act.org
Click on MyACT Sign In (upper righthand corner of the screen)
Click on Create MyACT account
Click on I registered or tested before
Click on I have never accessed my scores online
Then proceed to enter in your information on the next screen and you should be able to set up your online ACT account in a way that it will properly link to the test you already took here at school so that you can access that score.
If you need any help with this, stop into the CCC and one of our CCC Coordinators can walk you through it.