CALEDONIA, Miss. (WCBI) – One of the biggest standardized tests a student will take is the ACT.

The timed test for college admission includes English, Math, Reading, Science, and Writing.

While this can be an intimidating test, one local student said persistence and practice pay off.

Landon Clark has been at Caledonia all his life.

Over the years, he said he’s had many goals to achieve. One of them was to earn a banner in the school’s hallway for an achievement of 30+ on the ACT.

After multiple attempts and hours of studying, he achieved something extremely rare – scoring a perfect 36 on the ACT.

“It was crazy. I received the notification on my phone; it was like, ‘Your test scores are in.’ I saw it and I was like ‘what?’ I didn’t expect it. Of course, you know, I was always kind of

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