MVHS Student Aces ACT

By WESLIE STRATTON

Moapa Valley Progress

The ever-elusive perfect score is something that most high school students only dream of while preparing for the ACT exam. But one Moapa Valley High School student actually achieved that goal this year. Evan Conger, a 17-year-old senior, aced the notoriously difficult college entrance exam with a score of 36.

The ACT test is a college admission test that measures what is learned in high school to determine academic readiness for college, according to act.org. Only 0.195% of test takers achieve a perfect score. Conger earned a distinguished place in that narrow percentage.
“I was pretty excited,” Conger said about his reaction to receiving his test results.

In preparation for the exam, Conger said that he took practice tests and repeated the test to have an idea of what to study.
“This was his third time taking it,” Evan’s mother Vicki Conger said. “He got a 33 the first time so he took it again and got a 34. He decided he wanted to get a 35 so he took it again and he got a 36!”
Vicki said that Evan is very self-motivated and determined.

“He’s always been a good student,” she said. “He has always excelled in all of his classes. Even from Kindergarten on he has always been a good student.”

She said that Evan has been applying for colleges and that he and his friends recently toured BYU and the University of Utah.
“He and his friends have always push each other in academics,” she said. “He wouldn’t be where he is without them. They get together a lot to study and do homework.”

Evan also competes on the soccer and track teams as well as playing the cello in orchestra and bass in band. His favorite subjects are history and government and he looks forward to studying engineering in college after serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“I have always felt that God has a lot in store for Evan,” Vicki said. “He will be great at whatever he decides to do in life.