SAT math scores hit 3-decade high

Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 | By George Archibald

[JohnHuang2]

This year's crop of college-bound high school graduates had the highest average mathematics scores in more than three decades on the SAT.

The national average math score on the SAT this year was 519 — three points higher than last year and 14 points higher than in 1974 — according to the College Entrance Examination Board, which administered the test to 1.4 million students in the class of 2003.

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Quote of the Day by mombonn

[ido_now]

NEW FLASH: Lying hits all time record high.

If you believe that SAT "real" math scores are increasing, that "real" economic recovery is occuring, that the "real" deficit next year will be only 480 billion, that "real" crime rates are decreasing, that I am from the government and I'm here to help you, then you have been lied to and love it.

Any info from the government is open to manipulation for political purposes and they will do so whenever they feel like it.

Local Example Detroit: Detroit use to be referred to as the murder capitol of the U.S., which didn't go over well with former Major Coleman Young. The DPD made a minor change to murder reporting to the FBI. If you were shot and died on the spot then you were murdered, but if you made it to a hospital and then died this was not classified as a murder. Guess what? The murder rate dropped dramatically and Miami or DC became the new murder capitol.

[Paleo Conservative]

That depends on what the definition of a "score" is.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

……The board's most controversial change was to drop its prohibition of calculators for the math questions…….

…..The verbal section was significantly changed in 1995. A Test of Standard Written English was dropped, including 30 minutes of grammar and punctuation questions. The reading comprehension section was changed to "critical reading," with fewer but longer passages to read; some to be compared and contrasted.