 These college courses include English composition, college algebra, introductory social science courses, and biology.In addition to its use in college admissions, multiple states and thousands of individual school districts use the ACT to assess the performance of schools, requiring all high school students to take the ACT, regardless of whether they are college bound.The states that tested virtually all students in their 2018 graduating classes were Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.