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A Pair of Parkway Aces
Two Parkway Central high school students earned top scores on their ACT test.
Joy Yang and Hannah Wiedner of have a lot to be proud of--they aced their ACTs.
The ACT is a college admissions and placement exam taken by high schoolers across the nation. The highest possible score is 36. According to the ACT website the average Missouri student composite (or overall) score is 21.6.
Only about one-tenth of one percent of test takers manage to achieve a perfect score on the ACT. In 2011, more than 1.6 million students took the exam.
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The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science. Each test is scored on a scale of 1-36, and a student’s composite score is the average of four test scores. The ACT test assesses high school students' general educational development and their ability to complete college-level work.