Adventures in ACT Retakes

Parents of High Achieving Students

Marie Boyd is a high school student who improved her ACT score from a 26 to a 33 after studying with Prep Expert. Marie took the ACT a total of 4 times, improving dramatically with each retake. After experiencing challenge after challenge, including a fully booked testing center and a forgotten calculator, she was even able to get a nearly perfect score on the ACT writing portion with an 11 out of 12.

Marie is involved in a variety of extracurricular activities, including volleyball, student government, art, and dance. Her mother, Tina Boyd, has been her constant support and encouragement, helping guide her to her next chapter where she’ll have an internship at a pediatrician's office. She is a wonderful example of how hard work can pay off!

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How is your child performing in school? Does this have any bearing on how they will fare on tests? If they struggle with both, how can they possibly improve their scores?

Marie Boyd’s test scores and grades were pretty alright, but she felt she needed to improve on them so she could get into a good college. That’s when her mom, Tina Boyd, decided to sign her up for the Prep Expert program. With their top instructors and perfect-score strategies, Prep Expert helped Marie revolutionize the way she was taking her tests — increasing her ACT score from 26 to 33.

In this episode of The Parents of High-Achieving Students Podcast, Tim Prunyi sits down with Marie Boyd, a high school student and Prep Expert student, and her mother, Tina Boyd, to discuss how they boosted Marie’s ACT scores. They explain what Marie’s test scores and grades were before the program, the hardest subjects on the test and how Prep Expert helped her tackle them, and their advice to other parents and students.