(Gray News) – The average Composite score on the ACT test for the class of 2023 has fallen to 19.5 out of 36, according to a report.
The decrease in scores marks a decline of 0.3 points from 2022, when the average score was 19.8, data released by ACT in October shows. ACT is the nonprofit organization that administers the college readiness exam.
The average scores in three of the four subjects featured on the test – mathematics, reading and science – were below the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks. The benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students taking the test to have a high probability of success in college.
ACT said students who meet a benchmark on the test have about a 50% chance of getting a B score or better in college courses and about a 75% chance of earning a C or better in the same course or courses.
Dugh what is a ACT test !!! LOL LOL
Not a surprise.
SAT & later ACT were designed to measure readiness of test takers to do college level work successfully.
HS classes have been undercut by determination to award every kid a diploma and to have bulk of them enroll in a college or community college to prove what a stellar job public schools are doing. Functional literacy and ability is not impressive. A great many don’t finish their first semester, and an enormous number take 5 or more years to graduate with a degree of some sort. The majority don’t earn a degree. And that’s with rampant grade inflation at the college level. Those depressing post-HS stats don’t get much coverage but are the facts.
Poor White people could not afford college !!!!!