College Admission Testing

College Admission Testing at
Dalat International School

Dalat International School is pleased to offer a variety of external, college-prep standardized tests each year. Registration for the ACT & SAT (available to the public) is done completely online, and AP/PSAT testing is for Dalat/DLRC-homeschool students only.  We are  required to direct you the official sites (listed below) to receive answers to all your questions for ACT and SAT testing.

Advanced Placement (AP) Exams

AP testing at Dalat is only for Dalat/DLRC-homeschool students. Please check the College Board website here and enter “Malaysia” under the “Country” field to test as an “exam only” external student at other test centers in Malaysia.

Campus Access on Test Day

For all tests, be sure to check their international test dates, not domestic test dates, and you will be shown which test dates are available at Dalat and other schools in Malaysia. 

On the day of the test, you will first check in at Security/Front Gate as early as 7 am and be given instructions to test admission.

Parents/guardians/drivers will have to exit campus after dropping off students. 

Approximate pick-up times are:

ACT

Available to the public.  You must register online for the international computer based-ACT test (www.act.org), and ACT test prep practice book materials can be found through major bookstore chains like:

Notes for this school year:

  • Testing is computer-based only.
  • Some of the calculators permitted for SAT are NOT permitted for ACT (e.g. TI-89)
  • Practice tests for the computer-based testing are now available on the ACT website.
  • Preparation for the ACT can be done for free online via ACT Academy.

Only 25 spots available each test administration date, so SIGN UP early!

ACT Dates

  • September 6, 2025
  • December 13, 2025
  • February 7, 2026
  • April 11, 2026

SAT

Available to the public. You can take SAT at Dalat (and free test prep via Khan Academy) by registering/paying online.

For SAT test day information, please see this website.

SAT Dates

(Check College Board’s site for SAT availability on any given test date.)

  • August 23, 2025
  • September 13, 2025
  • November 8, 2025
  • December 6, 2025
  • March 14, 2026

CLEP

The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) is a standardized, college credit-granting exam program maintained by The College Board. The CLEP offers 34 exams covering material taught in courses that you may generally take in your first two years of college. 2,900 colleges and universities grant credit for CLEP, and each institution determines the exams for which it awards credits, the minimum qualifying score required to get credit, and the amount of credits that will be granted per exam.

More information: https://clep.collegeboard.org/clep-exams

Register here for CLEP https://myclep.collegeboard.org/

Testing Centre information:

Our testing centre does not offer optional essays for CLEP composition and literature exams.

You will pay a cash only 100 RM administrative fee per exam taken upon check-in on test day

A maximum of two exams can be taken per appointment.

2025 CLEP testing dates:

  • August 16, 2025
  • October 4, 2025

For further information, contact aarul@dalat.org