Sunday’s editorial asks some tough
questions about who’s going to college and why they aren’t succeeding:
Sandwiched inside the article The Sun
News published
last month when data on local, state and national SAT scores were announced
was this sobering sentence: “The College Board considers 1,550 a benchmark for
indicating college success.”
Those who read that far into the news
story came upon the benchmark after learning that Horry County’s average SAT
score was 1,484, Georgetown County’s average was 1,364, the state average was
1,431 and the national average was 1,498.
In other words, the average student
SAT test taker, whether on the local, state or national level, is not
considered likely to succeed in college. Those results come on top of similar
ones from the ACT test, the other popular college entrance exam. A report
this year by the organization behind that test found that only 25 percent of
ACT-tested high school graduates nationwide were adequately prepared for
college in all four subjects it covers: English, reading, math and science.
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