ACT Scores Lower This Year, But More Students Ready for College
by Agnes Jasinski Although average ACT scores were lower this
year than the previous year, it wasn’t all bad news on this
year’s ACT score report. High school graduates who took the test
this year are slightly more prepared for college than their
peers in years prior, despite the average lower scores.
According to the report, The Condition of College and Career
Readiness 2010, about 71 percent of test-takers met at least one
of four college readiness benchmarks in English, math, reading
or science. About 47 percent met between one and three
benchmarks, and 24 percent met all four benchmarks. Last year,
23 percent met all four benchmarks; in 2006, that figure was
around 21 percent. An article from the Associated Press in USA
Today this week explains that test-takers this year were a more
diverse group of students. While they did score lower overall,
how they did meeting benchmarks is encouraging to the authors of
the test. To measure college readi