Both major college admissions tests changed format recently -- the SAT went fully digital in 2024, the ACT got shorter and restructured in 2025 -- which makes it easy to assume the conversion between their scores changed too. It didn't.
The table is still the 2018 one, confirmed by both test makers
The official ACT/SAT concordance table was released in 2018 and, per ACT's own current documentation, is not updated annually. Both College Board and ACT, Inc. have confirmed it still applies to the current digital SAT and Enhanced ACT, because neither redesign was built to shift the underlying score scale -- College Board specifically designed the digital SAT to preserve score continuity with the paper version it replaced, and the same logic holds on the ACT side. A student testing in 2026 uses the identical conversion table a student testing in 2019 would have used.
What a few real score pairs actually look like
Per the official table:
| ACT Composite | SAT Total (concorded) |
|---|---|
| 36 | 1590 |
| 34 | 1500 |
| 32 | 1430 |
| 30 | 1370 |
| 28 | 1310 |
| 24 | 1180 |
| 20 | 1040 |
These aren't exact equivalencies -- ACT's own documentation is explicit that "a concorded score is not a perfect prediction of how a student would perform" on the other test. Treat the table as a genuine, official comparison tool, not a guarantee that a 1500 SAT and a 34 ACT reflect identical underlying ability.
What this means for you
- Don't assume a newer table exists just because both tests changed format -- the 2018 concordance table is still the current, official standard for both.
- Use the official table (via ACT's or College Board's own site), not a third-party approximation, when you need a real comparison point between a score you already have and a target range for a specific school or scholarship.
- Treat a concorded score as a comparison tool, not a prediction -- it tells you roughly comparable performance levels, not what you'd actually score if you sat the other test.
- This is one piece of the larger SAT-vs-ACT decision -- see the full breakdown of who tends to do better on which test for the format and content differences behind these numbers.