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The College BoardPosted on 09/27/2013 2:03:35 PM PDT by neverdem
Fewer than half of the 2013 graduating seniors who took the test got "college-ready" scores.
Of the 1.66 million high school students in the class of 2013 who took the SAT, only 43 percent were academically prepared for college-level work, according to this year’s SAT Report on College & Career Readiness. For the fifth year in a row, fewer than half of SAT-takers received scores that qualified them as “college-ready.”
The College Board considers a score of 1550 to be the “College and Career Readiness Benchmark.” Students who meet the benchmark(PDF) are more likely to enroll in a four-year college, more likely to earn a GPA of a B- or higher their freshman year, and more likely to complete their degree.
“While some might see stagnant scores as no news, the College Board considers them a call to action. These scores can and must change — and the College Board feels a sense of responsibility to help make that happen,” the report said.
The report also offered insights into why some students graduated high school prepared for college and others didn’t. Students in the class of 2013 who met or exceeded the benchmark were more likely to have completed a core curriculum, to have taken honors or AP courses, and to have taken higher-level mathematics courses, like precalculus, calculus, and trigonometry.
Although the SAT takers in the class of 2013 were the most diverse group of test takers ever, the report showed that minority students’ scores have only slightly improved in the past year.
The College Board
While 14.8 percent of African-American SAT takers met or exceeded the SAT benchmark in 2012, 15.6 percent met or exceeded the mark in 2013...
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All in keeping with the turd worlding of America by the Obamanation and the Democraps.
She’s in AP Biology this year....sure learning to take the test is not the only part, but certainly knowing how to take the test, certainly will add points, even if you already have the knowledge and understanding.
I have a solution...teach.
My son, who is a Junior in high school, is telling me that the majority of the teachers just open the book and read to them. There is no effort to explain concepts, give insights, or show applications outside of the examples in the book. This situation has been made worse by the introduction of Common Core.
Additionally, they PILE on extreme amounts of home work. Pages and pages of math problems with NO real explanation of the concept or application, pages of slanted history to read and submit notes on, many pages of reading and summaries to write for English, etc., etc.
I had a 4.35 GPA in high school and graduated college with a 3.62 GPA back in the 80’s. My SAT scores were excellent for the time, 1385 combined I think. My son’s homework, on a typical night, would take me 4 to 5 hours to complete. Every night.
Makes me wish we could home school.
If you want to gain a dozen points, take the prep course, if you want to gain knowledge and hundreds of points take the rigorous courses.
I feel for you, convincing your daughter to take the hardest classes can be a challenge.
I was not able to convince mine to take physics her senior year in HS. She regretted it when she wanted to major in Engineering (but not because her dad is an engineer, don’t you know) in college and they said “no, not without physics”. Undeterred she pushed and took it her freshman year and by midway through her sophomore year she was in Engineering and doing well, and wishing she listened to her dad in the first place.
Point is, those hard classes DO make a difference - not only in SAT’s but in other ways as well.
I noticed that in an earlier article.
It looks like they added a new section, for another 800 points. The "verbal" section has been replaced by separate "reading" and "writing" sections.
I don’t know, but my ‘85 prep school degree was like a college degree.
“Of the 1.66 million high school students in the class of 2013 who took the SAT, only 43 percent were academically prepared for college-level work”
Don’t expect much from this generation.
This is good advice. Rigorous course work is the best preparation of the SAT. However, doing both is the best course of action. Learning how to take the test will also improve her score.
correction: ....best preparation for the SAT......
I suppose I could have benefited from a good SAT prep class..
:-D
That's because most Asians choose to live in very high density areas. City slickers the world over vote socialist. Asians are typically raised to take orders, eat a lot of inexpensive rice, and be socialist worker bees in the hive. The rebels that grow up in the country mostly vote conservative.
We need a new test, the CAT: companionship aptitude test, and make employment in the welfare baby making sector contingent on doing well on it. If the government is going to reward raising fatherless human pets we might as well go all out and breed people pleasant to be around and take care of.
its all about the money....
also, the colleges can point to the fact that the students "aren't ready" when they keep them in their colleges for 5-6 yrs just to finish their degrees...
How would one apprentice for all those part time jobs created in the Obama economy?
Tell me again who these college board geniuses are? Are these the same guys who used to give “achievement tests”? I aced high school and I took a test in 1959, the results of which, said that I could be anything I wanted: doctor, lawyer, etc. except engineer. But I was planning on studying engineering, aced that too, and grew up to be a dammgoodone with a record that speaks for itself.
So I’ve had a low opinion of these tests since 1959 and an even lower opinion of anyone who takes them very seriously. And if you want to start a real fight with me go ahead and use them to denigrate the capability of anyone who took one and maybe didn’t do as expected. The tests should be used, at a minimum, to coach the students toward any weak areas that might appear. That means they should be given far enough in advance of graduation to allow re-taking, etc. any indicated classes. It also means a student should NEVER be denied access to additional schooling based SOLELY on test results . And I’ll put my own bio up against/along side any of these test writing bean counters.
Oh please. My daughter is a junior in International Business at the University of Georgia. She carried in 27 hours of AP credit, has a B+ average and is fluent in french.
She did not score 1550. Sometimes scores don’t amount to much.
This is bull. In many schools, including our local district, ALL students must take the SAT. So of course there are many who are not ready for college. They are not college material.
I scored 1502 in 1968. I thought that was pretty good, but John LaRoche scored a perfect 1600. He was wicked smart.
“I scored 1502 in 1968.”
Error. Make that 1402. Not 1502.
If 13% of the population is black and 13% took the test, just how is that “underresprented”?
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