The Essai Olympiad the night before the December ACT: brownie (literally!) points to the winners!
A very happy new year to you all! We have an exciting year ahead of us here at essai, with lots of students taking tests in the next few months, and our 12th graders on tenter-hooks waiting to hear back from colleges.
But first we wanted to take you back to December last year: yet again, essai’s students performed brilliantly in the December ACT. We had a total of 30 students taking the December test, our largest cohort yet.
Overall, our students scores went up 7 points from their diagnostic scores, with almost 40% of students improving by 8 points or more. And a big shout out to two students in particular, who achieved a whopping 12 point improvement from their diagnostics.
Starting from an average diagnostic score of 24, our students scored an average of 31 in the December ACT. While essai aims to focus on score improvement, we were delighted to see over 60% of our students score 30 or more. Even more impressively, over 25% scored 34+, and two students scored a perfect 36.
Here at essai, we pride ourselves on our English programme (we’re currently finalising a textbook, so watch this space!). In December, students improved their English scores by 11 points, from an average of 22 to an average of 33. One student even scooped a huge 20 point improvement! And over half of our students scored 35 or more in English.
The other sections of the test also went very well for our students. 65% scored 30 or more in Math, and 3 students scored a 36 in Math and Reading. In Science, almost half of our students scored a 30 or more, with seven achieving a 36.
All in all, a huge congratulations to all our students. For many of you, December marked the end of your ACT journey with essai – enjoy the feeling of being done! For some of you, another attempt still looms ahead, and we look forward to helping you to get there. And for those pondering taking the ACT, we encourage you to come down to essai and check it out! You can find more about our ACT programme here.
