Every date still ahead
22 sittings across the tests that have a calendar, in date order, with the registration clock running separately from the test clock — they are not the same deadline, and treating them as one is how a sitting is missed.
| Test | Date | Registration by | Late | Scores | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCAT | 11 September 2026 | — | — | 13 Oct | today |
| SAT | 12 September 2026 | 28 Aug | 1 Sep | 25 Sep | tomorrow |
| MCAT | 12 September 2026 | — | — | 13 Oct | tomorrow |
| ACT | 19 September 2026 | 14 Aug | 1 Sep | 6 Oct | 8 days |
| SAT | 3 October 2026 | 18 Sep open | 22 Sep | 16 Oct | 3 weeks |
| LSAT | 7–10 October 2026 | 27 Aug | — | 28 Oct | 4 weeks |
| ACT | 17 October 2026 | 11 Sep open | 29 Sep | 27 Oct | 5 weeks |
| SAT | 7 November 2026 | 23 Oct open | 27 Oct | 20 Nov | 8 weeks |
| LSAT | 11–14 November 2026 | 1 Oct open | — | 2 Dec | 9 weeks |
| SAT | 5 December 2026 | 20 Nov open | 24 Nov | 18 Dec | 3 months |
| ACT | 12 December 2026 | 6 Nov open | 29 Nov | 22 Dec | 3 months |
| LSAT | 13–16 January 2027 | 1 Dec open | — | 3 Feb | 4 months |
| LSAT | 12–13 February 2027 | 29 Dec open | — | 3 Mar | 5 months |
| ACT | 27 February 2027 | 22 Jan open | 9 Feb | 16 Mar | 6 months |
| SAT | 6 March 2027 | 19 Feb open | 23 Feb | — | 6 months |
| LSAT | 8–10 April 2027 | 25 Feb open | — | 28 Apr | 7 months |
| ACT | 10 April 2027 | 5 Mar open | 23 Mar | 20 Apr | 7 months |
| SAT | 1 May 2027 | 16 Apr open | 20 Apr | — | 8 months |
| SAT | 5 June 2027 | 21 May open | 25 May | — | 9 months |
| LSAT | 9–12 June 2027 | 29 Apr open | — | 30 Jun | 9 months |
| ACT | 12 June 2027 | 7 May open | 25 May | 23 Jun | 9 months |
| ACT | 10 July 2027 | 4 Jun open | 22 Jun | 20 Jul | 10 months |
Every row was read from the testing body’s own dates page on 2026-09-08. This is a reading, not a live feed: confirm a deadline on the body’s site before you rely on it. Deadlines expire at 11:59 p.m. — Eastern for College Board and LSAC, Central for ACT.
The ones with no date
Not every test has a calendar. These are appointments, and the deadline that governs them is not theirs.
College Board
PSAT/NMSQT
Fall 2026
The PSAT/NMSQT is not a public sitting you register for: schools test inside a window, and your school chooses the day. The window read from College Board on the date above is 1–30 October 2026.
ETS
GRE
Continuous
There is no GRE calendar to count down to. ETS offers the General Test year round, at a test centre or at home, so the date that matters is your programme's application deadline — work backwards from that.
Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)
GMAT
Continuous
The GMAT has no national test date. It is scheduled by appointment at a test centre or online, so the deadline that governs your plan is the business school's round deadline. Note the 16-day wait between attempts when you plan a retake.
ETS
TOEFL iBT
Continuous
The TOEFL iBT is scheduled by appointment year round, at a test centre or at home, so there is no calendar to count down to. Plan backwards from the university deadline that needs the score.
College Board
AP Exams
May 2027
AP is a family of exams, not a single test, and each subject has its own length and its own paper. This page does not publish per-subject timings, because it has not read all of them — College Board's course pages have them subject by subject. What is here is what is true of all of them: the scale, and the fortnight.