Test

PSAT

What?
Preliminary test for the
SAT.
College Readiness
benchmark
assessment.

Why?
Offers valuable testing
experience and
feedback. Students can
qualify for National Merit
Scholarship.

When?
October of
10th and/or
11th grade

Wher
e?

How?

THS

Sign up in Student Services

early fall. Test costs are
responsibility of student/parent.

THS

All 10th graders will take at

school

Laney,
Ashley or
Hoggard
HS

Register at sat.collegeboard.org.
Test costs are responsibility of
student/parent.

THS

All 11th graders take at school.

Students can sign up to take
again at
http://www.actstudent.org/ .

ACT

American College Test

College Admissions

October of
10th grade.
Recommended
: spring of 11th
grade and Fall
of 12th grade.
Offered
several times
throughout the
year.
THS students
will take in
March of 11th
grade. Offered
at other test
sites several
times
throughout the
year.

EOC

End-of-Course Test;
taken for Math I,
English II and Biology

To receive credit for a

high school course.
Counts as 25% of final
grade in course.

End of
semester

THS

Done online during exam week

at THS.

NC
Final
Exams

Measure student
learning in subjects in
high school.

Required tests that count

as 25% of student's final
grade in course.

End of
semester

THS

Taken paper/pencil during exam

week at THS.

PLAN

SAT

Scholastic Aptitude
Test

To prepare for the ACT.

College Admissions

CTE
Final
Exams
ASVAB

Career and Technical

Education final exams.
Armed Services
Vocational Aptitude
Battery

Required to earn course

credit and count as 25%
of final grade in course.
Used for military as well
as career exploration.

End of
semester
March

THS

Taken paper/pencil during exam

week at THS.

THS

Sign up in Student Services

with Mrs. Wullenwaber.