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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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Not true. Urban minorities continue to vote for the very people who are insuring a permanent underclass. Until they realize what’s happening, we won’t get there from here.
My generation learned skills in high school that allowed many people to do fine in the job market without going to college. Lots of gals went into the secretarial field. Those jobs aren’t there any more. Our high school offered an engineering class and several guys went to work for engineering firms doing grunt tasks while getting a degree at night.
But we also took practical classes - home ec, sewing, auto mechanics, woodworking. I don’t think they even offer these any more.
When I went back to get my Master’s I had a couple of courses from the Bachelor’s level to pick up so went to a local junior college. Young kids hated having older ones in the class because they blew the curve grading system right out of the water. We weren’t there to socialize but to do well and move on with our life.
Why not skip that gimmick and have her take online college coursework over the summer?
What more proof do you need that you can do college level work than a college level course you pass?
Actually, the government school system was instituted by Protestants worried that Catholic migrants would ruin America. Ironic, no?
Spot on. End the government monopoly over what is or isn’t an education. They’ve failed. End it, don’t mend it.
First you need to end the government monopoly on what is or isn’t an education. That’s the trouble.
Where did you go?
In the 80s, I thought the exam scores were always in increments of 10.
I took it 3 times, always maxed the Math, but never higher than 560 on the Verbal.
You nailed it!
Don’t they understand that they need to make the test easier to raise the scores?
How hard is that?
“We’re paying a king’s ransom for crap!”
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Yes we are! Less than half of graduating high school seniors are ready for “college level” work and the majority of graduating COLLEGE SENIORS could not pass a public high school final from 1960 if their lives depended on it. Most could not pass an eighth grade final from that year. I doubt that any of them could pass my father’s eighth grade final. We have dropped the voting age from 21 to 18 at a time when the average 18 year old knows far less about government and history than the average ten year old used to know.
This nation is valuing ignorance as highly as it once valued knowledge.
According to the chart, “SAT Participation Among Underrepresented Minority Students”, only fifty percent of students taking the SAT were white, but minorities are underrepresented. So, when did the younger generation become majority nonwhite?
My mother was an English teacher and my father was an engineer. I had to do well in both or get my butt kicked.
“This Year’s SAT Scores Are Out, and They’re Grim ‘
Democrats are rejoicing — more future voters for them.
“I scored 1340 when I took it right before my senior year (1985).”
My eldest son got 1340, too. 670/670. The first time he took them he got 600/600. Pretty balanced kid, eh? That was in about 2001. I got a little over 1300 back in 1971 or so.
I’m very proud of my son who is waiting for a letter from Hillsdale college. He submitted an early decision application for admission there. He scored well over 2000 on the SAT and 34 on the ACT. Early decision notifications go out in December (although I already have the Hillsdale decal in the car back window).
When (if) he arrives on campus next fall, he’ll be an average student there. It might be a bit of an adjustment. The bechmark scores in this report mean nothing to schools like Hillsdale.
I happened to be listening to Glen Beck yesterday,and he was asking people simple questions,the branches of gov.,where is Libya,what is precipitation and few people could answer. Was that for real?
I would put what I learned by the end of eighth grade up against the average BA today. I don’t think you could find someone who graduated with a BA in the last fifteen years from the university nearest me who could pass my eighth grade final. In other words they would not qualify to ENTER public high school in South Carolina in the year 1958. I don’t believe that statement is any kind of exaggeration or hyperbole at all. I base it on conversations with some of those graduates.
The SAT gets enough flak as it is because the math questions are somehow biased against women and the math and the verbal are somehow biased against minorities. Now we will be hearing calls for a new, “unbiased” SAT to be made in order to ensure white males have the highest score.
And the worst part - all of those who scored dismally will be going to college, and most won’t be paying a nickel of their own money to do so. And many of them won’t finish and those that do will have to be held to grotesquely low standards.
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